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Prizes and Awards

Each year, our scientists are honored with a number of prestigious prizes, awards, and medals for their achievements in a variety of scientific disciplines. See a selection here.

Prizes and Awards

  • Paul Martini Prize for Marcus Conrad

    For his discoveries in the field of ferroptosis – a specific form of programmed cell death that opens up new perspectives for the development of drugs in cancer therapy and organ transplantation – Prof. Marcus Conrad has been awarded the Paul Martini Prize. The prestigious award, presented annually by the Paul Martini Foundation in Berlin, honors outstanding achievements in…

  • Award for outstanding achievements in natural product research

    Every two years, the MDPI Sustainability Foundation presents the Tu Youyou Award for outstanding achievements in the fields of natural product and medicinal chemistry. This year, Rolf Müller is one of two researchers to receive the award for his work on developing new antibiotics based on microbial natural products. The prize was established in 2016 in honor of Chinese Nobel…

  • Helmholtz Munich Researchers Honored with DGP Research Prizes for Pneumology Research

    At the 65th Annual Congress of the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) in Leipzig, two Helmholtz Munich researchers were recognized for their outstanding scientific contributions to the field of pneumology. Dr. Lin Yang was awarded the DGP Research Prize for Experimental Research on Respiratory Diseases, while Dr. Michael Gerckens received the…

  • Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for Lukas Bunse

    Using immune cells to fight brain tumors – that is the goal of Lukas Bunse, who is this year's recipient of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The physician and scientist is being honored for the development and clinical implementation of immunotherapeutic strategies against malignant brain tumors. Lukas Bunse is a neurologist at the…

  • Frank Winkler receives the Brain Prize 2025

    This year, the most highly endowed award in the neurosciences and neuromedical research honors pioneering work on the interactions between the nervous system and brain tumors: Neurologist Frank Winkler, who conducts research at the University of Heidelberg and at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and treats patients with brain tumors at Heidelberg University Hospital,…

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