Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
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The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize is given every year since 1952 for investigations in medicine. The prize carries a prize money of 100.000 Euro. The prize awarding ceremony is traditionally on March 14, the birthday of Paul Ehrlich, in the St. Pauls-Church, Frankfurt.
Awarded are researchers from worldwide in medicine-sections, in which Paul Ehrlich worked. Especially this are Immunology, Cancer Research, Haematology, Microbiology and experimental und clinical Chemotherapy.
The prize is given from the de:Paul-Ehrlich-Stiftung and belongs to the highest endowed and international most distinguished awards in medicine in Germany.
Many of the prizewinners were later Nobel Prize winners.
Prizewinners
- 1952
- Gerhard Eißner, Tübingen
- Wolf -H. Wagner, Nonnenhorn
- 1953
- Adolf Butenandt, München
- 1954
- Sir Ernst Boris Chain, London
- 1956
- Gerhard Domagk, Elberfeld
- 1958
- Richard Johann Kuhn, Heidelberg
- 1960
- Felix Haurowith, Bloomington
- 1961
- Albert Hewett Coons, Boston
- Günther Heymann, Langen
- Otto E. Ouchterlony, Göteborg
- Jacques Oudin, Paris
- 1962
- Otto Heinrich Warburg, Berlin
- 1963
- Helmut Holzer, Freiburg
- Lothar Jaenicke, Köln
- Detlev Kayser, Berlin
- Tullio Terranova, Rome
- 1964
- Fritz Kauffmann, Kopenhagen
- 1965
- Otto Lüderitz, Freiburg
- Léon Le Minor, Paris
- Ida Ørskov, Copenhagen
- Fritz Ørskov, Copenhagen
- B.A.D. Stocker, Stanford
- 1966
- Francis Peyton Rous, New York
- 1967
- Wilhelm Bernhard, Villejuif
- Renato Dulbecco, San Diego
- 1968
- Walter T. J. Morgan, London
- Otto Westphal, Montreux
- 1969
- Hiroshi Nikaido, Boston
- Anne-Marie Staub, Paris
- Winifred M. Watkins, London
- 1970
- Ernst Ruska, Berlin
- Helmut Ruska, Düsseldorf
- 1971
- Albert Claude, Brussels
- Keith R. Porter, Boulder
- Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, Los Angeles
- 1972
- Denis Parsons Burkitt, London / Uganda
- Jan Waldenström, Malmö
- 1973
- Sir Michael Anthony Epstein, Bristol
- Kazuhiro Ishizaka, Baltimore
- Dennis H. Wright, Southampton
- 1974
- James L. Gowans, Oxford
- Jacques Miller, Melbourne
- 1975
- George B. Mackaness, Saranac Lake
- Avrion Mitchison, London
- Morten Simonsen, Copenhagen
- 1976
- Georges Barski, Villejuif
- Boris Ephrussi, Gif-sur-Yvette
- 1977
- Torbjörn Caspersson, Stockholm
- John B. Gurdon, Cambridge
- 1978
- Ludwik Gross, New York
- Werner Schäfer, Tübingen
- 1979
- Arnold Graffi, Berlin
- Otto Mühlbock, Amsterdam
- Wallace P. Rowe, Bethesda
- 1980
- Akiba Tomoichirō, Saitama
- Hamao Umezawa, Tokyo
- 1981
- Stanley Falkow, Seattle
- Susumu Mitsuhashi, Gunma-Ken
- 1982
- Niels Kaj Jerne, Castillon du Gard
- 1983
- Peter C. Doherty, Canberra
- Michael Potter, Bethesda
- Rolf Zinkernagel, Zürich
- 1984
- Piet Borst, Amsterdam
- George A. M. Cross, New York
- 1985
- Ernest Bueding, Baltimore
- Louis H. Miller, Bethesda
- Ruth Sonntag-Nussenzweig, New York University
- 1986
- Abner L. Notkins, Bethesda
- 1987
- Jean F. Borel, Basel
- Hugh O'Neill McDevitt, Stanford
- Felix Milgrom, Buffalo
- 1988
- Peter K. Vogt, Los Angeles
- 1989
- Stuart A. Aaronson, Bethesda
- Russell F. Doolittle, University of California, La Jolla
- Thomas Graf, Heidelberg
- 1990
- R. John Collier, Boston
- Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr., Cambridge (Massachusetts)
- 1991
- Rino Rappuoli, Siena
- Michio Ui, Tokyo
- 1992
- 1993
- Philippa Marrack, Denver
- John W. Kappler, Denver
- Harald von Boehmer, Basel
- 1994
- Peter Howly, Boston
- Harald zur Hausen, Heidelberg
- 1995
- 1996
- Pamela J. Bjorkman, Pasadena
- Hans-Georg Rammensee, Heidelberg
- Jack L. Strominger, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
- 1997
- Barry Marshall, Perth, Western Australia
- John Robin Warren, Perth, Western Australia
- 1998
- 1999
- Robert Charles Gallo, Baltimore
- 2000
- H. Robert Horvitz, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
- John F. R. Kerr, Brisbane, Australia
- 2001
- Stephen C. Harrison, Cambridge, USA
- Michael G. Rossmann, West Lafayette, USA
- 2002
- Craig Venter, Rockville, USA
- 2003
- Richard A. Lerner, La Jolla
- Peter G. Schultz, La Jolla
- 2004
- Tak Wah Mak, University of Toronto, Canada
- Mark M. Davis, Stanford University, USA
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- For investigations of T-cell-receptors.
- 2005
- Ian Wilmut, Roslin-Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, -- „Father“ of Dolly, For his experiments of cloning mammals.
- 2006
- Craig Mello, Biochemist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, USA.
- Andrew Z. Fire, Biologist, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA. RNA interference.
- 2007
- Ada Yonath, Biochemist, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
- Harry Noller, Biochemist, Center for Molecular Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
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- Research on the structure and function of ribosomes.
- 2008
- Tim Mosmann, Immunologist, University of Rochester, N.Y., Discovery of Th1- and Th2-cells.
- 2009
- Elizabeth Blackburn, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
- Carol W. Greider, Department of Molecular biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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- For their achievements in the discovery of telomeres and telomerase.
- 2010
- Charles Dinarello, School of Medicine, University of Colorado in Denver, USA., Research on cytokines.
- 2011
- Cesare Montecucco, 62, Department of Biomedical Research at the University of Padua, Italy.
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- Research in bacterial diseases, including tetanus, botulism, anthrax and Helicobacter pylori associated diseases.
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- For the discovery of signal recognizing particles.
- 2013
- Mary-Claire King, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. The first to demonstrate that there is a genetic predisposition for breast cancer.
- 2014
- Michael Reth, 63, Institute of Biology III of the University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Demonstrated how the immune system's B cells are activated and induced to produce antibodies.
- 2015
- James P. Allison, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston
- Carl H. June, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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- For cancer Immunotherapy
- 2016
- Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and University of Umeå, Sweden
- Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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- For work on the programmable Gene Cutter CRISPR-Cas9, part of the bacterial immune system.
