Meyenburg Prize

German cancer research award

The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (DKFZ), which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany. The prize has been awarded annually since 1981, and currently has an honorarium of €50,000.^[1]

List of Recipients

Source: Meyenburg Award Winners

1981 Werner W. Franke
1982/1983 Holger Kirchner and Volker Schirrmacher [de]
1984 Lutz Gissmann
1985 Volker Sturm
1986 Karin Mölling
1987 Mary Osborn
1988 Elisabeth Gateff
1989 Peter Herrlich [de]
1990 Rainer Storb [de]
1991 Hans-Georg Rammensee
1992 Walter Birchmeier
1993 Johannes Gerdes
1994 Gert Riethmüller [de]
1995 David P. Lane
1996 Peter H. Krammer
1997 Patrick S. Moore and Yuan Chang
1998 Richard D. Wood
1999 Carl-Henrik Heldin
2000 Matthias Mann
2001 Shoichiro Tsukita [ja]
2002 Andrew Fire
2004 Erich A. Nigg
2005 Thomas Tuschl
2006 Elizabeth Blackburn
2007 Shinya Yamanaka
2008 Hans Clevers
2009 Brian Druker
2010 Alan Ashworth^[2]
2011 Stefan Hell^[3]
2012 Charles Mullighan^[4]
2013 Nathanael Gray
2014 Peter Campbell (Sanger Institute)^[5]
2015 Ton Schumacher [nl; de]^[6]
2016 Emmanuelle Charpentier
2017 Nitzan Rosenfeld (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
2019 Benjamin L. Ebert
2020/2021 Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Katalin Karikó

References

^ Meyenburg Recipients List, in German
^ "2010 Meyenburg Award for Discoverer of BRCA 2 Breast Cancer Gene". www.dkfz.de.
^ "From microscopy to nanoscopy: 2011 Meyenburg Award goes to Stefan Hell". www.dkfz.de.
^ "Spurensuche im Erbgut von Blutkrebs: Meyenburg-Preis 2012 geht an Charles G. Mullighan". www.dkfz.de.
^ "Das Krebs-Erbgut im Kreuzverhör: Meyenburg-Preis 2014 geht an Peter Campbell". German Cancer Research Center. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
^ "How the immune system recognizes cancer: 2015 Meyenburg Award for Ton Schumacher". German Cancer Research Center. Retrieved 26 November 2015.