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This year's Felix Burda Award in the category "Medicine and Science" went to Christian Stock, Michael Hoffmeister and Hermann Brenner from the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ). In the context of a study, they have proven the safety of colonoscopy. The first-time award in the category "Best Prevention Idea" went to...more

Harald zur Hausen from the German Cancer Research Centre is the only German to have been elected an inaugural fellow of the newly established American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy. The  inaugural class of Fellows of the AACR Academy consists of 106 individuals, including 36 Nobel Prize awardees. The recipient of the 2008...more

Harvard Professor Cristopher T. Walsh is to receive the Inhoffen Medal funded by the Friends of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research. Walsh is awarded the prize endowed with 5,000 Euro for his research in the field of natural compound chemistry. This includes his work on the questions of how do bacteria cope when exposed to toxic mercury,...more

The biotechnology engineer and mathematician Anna Osberghaus and the physicist Susanne Mertens from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) were honoured with the Erna Scheffler Sponsorship Award. The dissertation award, each endowed with 2,500 Euro, commemorates the first female judge of the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany; she was an...more

The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research invites applications for the Jürgen Wehland Prize endowed with 5,000 Euro. It is addressed at excellent early career scientists with a research focus on infection biology. Their PhD graduation should be no longer than five years ago and applicants should be currently conducting their research in the...more