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German Cancer Research Center

Mirco Friedrich Receives the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation Award

Mirco Julian Friedrich, a physician and cancer researcher at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the HI-STEM* Stem Cell Research Institute, and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD), is being honored for his outstanding research on the aging immune system and the immune response to blood cancer.

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Prof. Dr Angelika Brandt to receive the German Ocean Award

5 November 2026/Kiel. Marine biologist and Senckenberg researcher Prof. Dr Angelika Brandt has been awarded the “Deutscher Meerespreis” (German Ocean Award). GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Prof. Dr Werner Petersen Foundation are thereby honouring her scientific achievements in deep-sea biological research and her seminal contribution to our…

Helmholtz Munich

Eleftheria Zeggini Receives FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027

Prof. Eleftheria Zeggini has been awarded the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027 for her pioneering contributions to human genomics and the translation of large-scale genetic discoveries into biological and clinical insights, alongside her scientific leadership and sustained commitment to mentoring, equality and inclusion.