Meyenburg Prize
The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the German [Cancer Research Center], Heidelberg, which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany. The prize has been awarded annually since 1981, the prize money is €50,000.
A notable number of Meyenburg Prize recipients won also the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Chemistry.
List of Recipients
Source:indicates Nobel Prize recipients
- 1981 Werner W. Franke
- 1982/1983 Holger Kirchner and
- 1984 Lutz Gissmann
- 1985 Volker Sturm
- 1986 Karin Mölling
- 1987 Mary Osborn
- 1988 Elisabeth Gateff
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991 Hans-Georg Rammensee
- 1992 Walter Birchmeier
- 1993 Johannes Gerdes
- 1994
- 1995 David P. Lane
- 1996 Peter H. Krammer
- 1997 Patrick S. Moore and Yuan Chang
- 1998 Richard D. Wood
- 1999 Carl-Henrik Heldin
- 2000 Matthias Mann
- 2001
- 2002 Andrew Fire
- 2004 Erich A. Nigg
- 2005 Thomas Tuschl
- 2006 Elizabeth Blackburn
- 2007 Shinya Yamanaka
- 2008 Hans Clevers
- 2009 Brian Druker
- 2010 Alan Ashworth
- 2011 Stefan Hell
- 2012 Charles Mullighan
- 2013 Nathanael Gray
- 2014 Peter Campbell
- 2015
- 2016 Emmanuelle Charpentier
- 2017 Nitzan Rosenfeld
- 2019 Benjamin L. Ebert
- 2020/2021 Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Katalin Karikó
- 2023/2024 Michel Sadelain