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For his research on optical imaging, Prof. Dr Vasilis Ntziachristos, Director of the Institute for Biological and Medical Imaging at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, receives the Leibniz Prize endowed with 2.5 million Euro. With the procedure developed by him, he has provided new impulses for basic research and for the treatment of patients. The...more

This year's Karl Heinz Beckurts Award goes to Dr Uwe Franke, Dr Stefan Gehrig and Dr Clemens Rabe. The three Daimler AG researchers receive the award endowed with 30,000 Euro for their development of a "6D Vision" procedure supporting drivers in confusing traffic situations. Next year, Mercedes-Benz will for the first time offer the...more

Dr Thomas Hofmann, Head of a Young Investigators Group at the German Cancer Research Center, is the recipient of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities award endowed with 10,000 Euro. The biologist has found out how cells determine their future fate after having suffered damage to their genetic material. His results contribute...more

For her outstanding work on the path to verifying the Higgs boson, DESY physicist Dr Kerstin Tackmann receives the Hertha Sponer Prize awarded by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG - German Physical Society). The prize endowed with 3,000 Euro will be awarded in March 2013 in the context of the DPG annual conference in Dresden. The Hertha...more

Pollutants in the marine environment – this is the topic Roxana Sührig has focused on in her diploma and subsequent doctoral thesis at the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht's Institute of Coastal Research. The Possehl Foundation now awarded her with a sponsorship totalling 2,500 Euro for her research on the pollution of eels with flame...more