Ernst Jung Prize
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The Ernst Jung Prize is a prize awarded annually for excellence in biomedical sciences. The Ernst Jung Foundation, funded by Hamburg
merchant Ernst Jung in 1967 grants the Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine, now €
300,000, since 1976 and the lifetime achievement Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine since 1990.
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
merchant Ernst Jung in 1967 grants the Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine, now €
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300,000, since 1976 and the lifetime achievement Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine since 1990.
Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine
- 1976: Donald HendersonDonald HendersonDonald Ainslie Henderson, known as D.A. Henderson, is an American physician and epidemiologist, who headed the international effort during the 1960s to eradicate smallpox. , he is a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity and a professor of...
and Lorenz Zimmerman - 1977: Georg Springer and John B. WestJohn B. WestJohn B. West M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. is a noted respiratory physiologist who made major research contributions in the area of ventilation-perfusion relationships in the lung....
- 1979: Karl Lennert and Anthony Pearse
- 1980: Eberhard Dodt, Alan Parks and Bruno Speck
- 1981: David E. KuhlDavid E. KuhlDavid Edmund Kuhl isan American scientist specializing in nuclear medicine.He is well known for his pioneering work in positron emission tomography. Dr...
- 1982: Hartmut WekerleHartmut WekerleHartmut Wekerle is a German medical scientist and neurobiologist. He is director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and head of the department Neuroimmunology....
and Rolf M. ZinkernagelRolf M. ZinkernagelRolf Martin Zinkernagel AC is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich.-Career:... - 1983: Hans-Jürgen Bretschneider and Richard Lower
- 1984: George Gee Jackson, Werner FrankeWerner FrankeWerner Franke is a professor of cell and molecular biology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.After completing high school , he studied chemistry, biology and physics at the University of Heidelberg...
and Klaus Weber - 1985: Hendrik Coenraad Hemker, Rudolf Pichlmayr and Peter K. Vogt
- 1986: Albrecht Fleckenstein
- 1987: Peter Richardson and Karl Julius Ullrich
- 1988: Helmut Sies and Charles WeissmannCharles WeissmannCharles Weissmann is a Hungarian-born Swiss molecular biologist.Weissmann went to Zurich University and obtained his MD in 1956 and Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry in 1961. Weissmann was director of the Institute for Molecular Biology in Zurich, President of the Roche Research Foundation and...
- 1989: Thomas Budinger and Johannes Joseph van Rood
- 1990: Gerhard Giebisch and Wilhelm Stoffel
- 1991: David Ho and Klaus Starke
- 1992: Roy Yorke Calne and Martin E. Schwab
- 1993: Charles A. DinarelloCharles A. DinarelloCharles A. Dinarello is a professor of medicine currently at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is an expert on inflammatory cytokines, specifically Interleukin 1....
and Robert Machemer - 1994: Terence Jones and Wolf Singer
- 1995: Anthony FauciAnthony FauciAnthony S. Fauci is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases .-Education and career:Anthony Stephen Fauci was born on...
and Samuel Wells - 1996: Harald zur HausenHarald zur HausenHarald zur Hausen is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008.-Biography:Zur Hausen was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, went to...
and Eberhard Nieschlag - 1997: Francis Chisari, Hans Hengartner and Judah FolkmanJudah FolkmanMoses Judah Folkman was an American medical scientist best known for his research on tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence...
- 1998: Alain Fischer
- 1999: Adriano Aguzzi and Hans Kretzschmar
- 2000: Martin J. LohseMartin J. LohseMartin J. Lohse, M.D. born August 26th, 1956, is a German physician and pharmacologist doing research on G protein-coupled receptors. Since 1993, he is a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Würzburg, Germany, as well as Chairman of the Rudolf Virchow Center . He received his exam in...
and Peter H. Krammer - 2001: Christine Petit and Thomas Jentsch
- 2002: Michael Frotscher and Christian HaassChristian HaassChristian Haass is a German biochemist who specializes in metabolic biochemistry and neuroscience.Haass studied biology in Heidelberg from 1981 to 1985. From 1990 on he was a...
- 2003: Ari Helenius and Reinhard Lührmann
- 2004: Stuart Lipton and Tobias BonhoefferTobias BonhoefferTobias Bonhoeffer is a German neurobiologist. He is director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and head of the department Cellular and Systems Neurobiology....
- 2005: Ernst Hafen and Franz-Ulrich HartlFranz-Ulrich HartlFranz-Ulrich Hartl is a German biochemist and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding....
- 2006: Reinhard Jahn and Markus Neurath
- 2007: Andreas Zeiher, Stefanie DimmelerStefanie DimmelerStefanie Dimmeler is a German biologist and biochemist. Since 2001, she has been Professor of Experimental Medicine and Head of Molecular Cardiology at the University of Frankfurt, and in 2005 she won the 1.55 million euro Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize...
and Josef Penninger - 2008: Thomas Benzing, Gerd Walz and Thomas TuschlThomas TuschlThomas Tuschl is a German biochemist and Molecular biologist researching RNA.-Biography:Tuschl was born in Altdorf bei Nürnberg. After graduating in chemistry from Regensburg university Tuschl received his PhD in 1995 from Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen...
- 2009: Jens Brüning and Patrick CramerPatrick CramerPatrick Cramer is a German biochemist.He was born 3 February 1969 in Stuttgart, he studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Heidelberg from 1989 till 1995. After his phd at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Grenoble till 1998, he did his postdoctoral at...
- 2010: Stephen Young and Peter CarmelietPeter CarmelietPeter Carmeliet is a Belgian physician and professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . He is also Adjunct Director of the VIB Department of Transgene Technology and Gene Therapy, K.U.Leuven...
Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine
- 1990: Beatrice MintzBeatrice MintzBeatrice Mintz is an American female embryologist who has contributed to the understanding of genetic modification, cellular differentiation and cancer, particularly melanoma....
- 1991: Heinrich Schipperges
- 1992: Hans Erhard Bock
- 1993: Robert Daroff
- 1994: Hanns Hippius
- 1995: Friedrich StelznerFriedrich StelznerFriedrich Stelzner is a German academic surgeon, scientist and educator with specialization in gastrointestinal surgery. He served consecutively as Professor and Chairman of three university departments and was inducted as in 1985. Stelzner contributed more than 80 books and book chapters to the...
- 1996: Karl-Hermann Meyer zum Büschenfelde
- 1997: Rudolf Haas and Walter Siegenthaler
- 1998: Wolfgang Gerok
- 1999: Hans Wilhelm Schreiber
- 2000: Gert Riethmüller
- 2001: Gustav Born
- 2002: Harald Reuter
- 2003: Volker ter Meulen
- 2004: Werner Creutzfeldt
- 2005: Christian Herfarth
- 2006: Dietrich Niethammer
- 2007: Hans Thoenen
- 2008: Hans-Dieter Klenk
- 2009: Volker Diehl
- 2010: Klaus RajewskyKlaus RajewskyKlaus Rajewsky is a German immunologist, renowned for his work on B cells.He studied medicine in Frankfurt, Munich and at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. In 1964, he started working at the Institute of Genetics in the University of Cologne, where he became professor for genetics. He researched...