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

  • Richmond Sarpong awarded the Inhoffen Medal 2025

    The Friends of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Technische Universität Braunschweig are awarding Prof. Richmond Sarpong from the University of California, Berkeley, with the Inhoffen Medal 2025. Sarpong is an eminent organic chemist who has distinguished himself through particular successes in synthetic chemistry and method development.…

  • Matthias Tschöp Awarded Lichtenberg Medal 2025 by Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

    Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor Matthias Tschöp was awarded the esteemed Lichtenberg medal on July 4, 2025, in recognition of his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of medicine. The award, which represents the highest honor of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, recognizes particularly outstanding and publicly respected scientists from all over the world.

  • Zeynep Akata Receives 2025 ZukunftsWissen Award

    Professor Zeynep Akata has been awarded the 2025 ZukunftsWissen Prize by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Commerzbank Foundation in recognition of her outstanding scientific contributions. The €50,000 award will be presented on September 25, 2025, in Halle (Saale) as part of the Leopoldina’s Annual Assembly, which this year focuses on the topic of…

  • Leipzig Science Award 2025 for Antje Körner

    Professor Antje Körner has been awarded the Leipzig Science Award 2025. The prize, endowed with €10,000, recognizes her research in the field of childhood obesity and metabolic diseases. The award ceremony took place during a formal event at Leipzig University Hospital.

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