The Ernst Jung Prize is a prize awarded annually for excellence in biomedical sciences. The Ernst Jung Foundation, funded by

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

merchant Ernst Jung in 1967, has awarded the Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine, now €300,000, since 1976, and the lifetime achievement Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine since 1990.

Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine

Source
Jung Foundation
*1976:

Donald Henderson Donald Ainslie Henderson (September 7, 1928 – August 19, 2016) was an American medical doctor, educator, and epidemiologist who directed a 10-year international effort (1967–1977) that eradicated smallpox throughout the world and launche ...

and Lorenz Zimmerman *1977: and

John B. West Professor John B. West FRCP (born 1928) is a respiratory physiologist who made major research contributions in the area of ventilation-perfusion relationships in the lung. He led a medical research expedition to Mount Everest in 1981, which inve ...

*1979:

Karl Lennert Karl Lennert, M.D. (4 June 1921 in Fürth, Weimar Republic, Germany – 27 August 2012 in Kiel, Germany) was a German physician and pathologist. Early life and education Lennert was born in Fürth, which is now contiguous with Nuremberg, in ...

and *1980: , Alan Parks and *1981:

David E. Kuhl David Edmund Kuhl (October 27, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri – May 28, 2017 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American scientist specializing in nuclear medicine. He was well known for his pioneering work in positron emission tomography. Dr. Kuhl s ...

*1982:

Hartmut Wekerle Hartmut Wekerle (born May 30, 1944) is a German medical scientist and neurobiologist. He is an emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and was the head of the department of Neuroimmunology until 2012. Biography Hartmut W ...

and Rolf M. Zinkernagel *1983: and Richard Lower *1984: ,

Werner Franke Werner Wilhelm Franke (31 January 1940 – 14 November 2022) was a German biologist and a professor of cell and molecular biology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. He was an anti-doping pioneer in Germany. Life Franke was bo ...

and Klaus Weber *1985: Hendrik Coenraad Hemker, Rudolf Pichlmayr and

Peter K. Vogt Peter K. Vogt (born March 10, 1932 in Broumov, Czechoslovakia) is an American molecular biologist, virologist and geneticist. His research focuses on retroviruses and viral and cellular oncogenes. Education and academic appointments Vogt rece ...

*1986: Albrecht Fleckenstein *1987: Peter Richardson and *1988:

Helmut Sies Helmut Sies is a German physician, biochemist and university professor. He was the first to demonstrate the existence of hydrogen peroxide as a normal attribute of aerobic life in 1970, and he introduced the concept of Oxidative stress in 1985. ...

and Charles Weissmann *1989: and

Jon van Rood Johannes Joseph "Jon" van Rood (7 April 1926, Scheveningen – 21 July 2017) was a Dutch immunologist. He founded Eurotransplant in 1967,

*1990: Gerhard Giebisch and *1991:

David Ho David Da-i Ho (; born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher, physician, and virologist who has made a number of scientific contributions to the understanding and treatment of HIV infection. He is the founding scientific ...

and *1992: Roy Yorke Calne and *1993: Charles A. Dinarello and

Robert Machemer Robert Machemer (16 March 1933 in Münster – 23 December 2009 in Durham, North Carolina) was a German-American ophthalmologist, ophthalmic surgeon, and inventor. He is sometimes called the "father of modern retinal surgery." Helmut Machemer, R ...

*1994: and Wolf Singer *1995:

Anthony Fauci Anthony Stephen Fauci (; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical advisor to the preside ...

and *1996:

Harald zur Hausen Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS (; born 11 March 1936) is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel ...

and *1997: Francis V. Chisari, and Judah Folkman *1998:

Alain Fischer Alain Fischer (born 11 September 1949 in Paris) is a doctor, professor of pediatric immunology and French researcher in biology. Biography Alain Fischer's father had wanted to become a doctor, but had been prevented from doing so by the numerou ...

*1999: and *2000: Martin J. Lohse and Peter H. Krammer *2001: Christine Petit and *2002: and

Christian Haass Christian Haass (born 19 December 1960 in Mannheim, Germany) is a German biochemist who specializes in metabolic biochemistry and neuroscience. Haass studied biology in Heidelberg from 1981 to 1985. From 1990 on he was a postdoctoral fellow ...

*2003:

Ari Helenius Ari Helenius (born 3 September 1944) is a Finnish emeritus professor of biochemistry who is known for his research in virology. Personal life Helenius was born 3 September 1944 in Oulu, Finland. Career He did his PhD with Kai Simons at the ...

and *2004: and Tobias Bonhoeffer *2005: and Franz-Ulrich Hartl *2006: Reinhard Jahn and *2007: , Stefanie Dimmeler and Josef Penninger *2008: , and

Thomas Tuschl Thomas Tuschl (born June 1, 1966) is a German biochemist and molecular biologist, known for his research on RNA. Biography Tuschl was born in Altdorf bei Nürnberg. After graduating in Chemistry from Regensburg University, Tuschl received his PhD ...

*2009: and Patrick Cramer *2010: Stephen G. Young and Peter Carmeliet *2011:

Hans Clevers Johannes (Hans) Carolus Clevers (born 27 March 1957) is a Dutch molecular geneticist, cell biologist and stem cell researcher. He became the Head of Pharma, Research and Early Development, and a member of the Corporate Executive Committee, of ...

and *2012: Peter Walter and Elisa Izaurralde *2013:

Angelika Amon Angelika Amon (January 10, 1967 – October 29, 2020) was an Austrian American molecular and cell biologist, and the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor in Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massach ...

and Ivan Đikić *2014: *2015:

Emmanuelle Charpentier Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she ...

*2016:

Hans-Georg Rammensee Hans-Georg Rammensee (born 12 April 1953) is a German immunologist and cancer researcher. He has been Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Immunology at the University of Tübingen since 1996. Rammensee has contributed essentially to t ...

*2017: and

Nenad Ban Nenad Ban is a biochemist born in Zagreb, Croatia who currently works at the ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, as a professor of Structural Molecular Biology. He is a pioneer in studying gene expression mechanisms and the partici ...

*2018: Ruth Ley and Marco Prinz *2019: Brenda A. Schulman and Gary R. Lewin *2020: Matthias Tschöp *2021: Christian Hertweck *2022: Ralf Bartenschlager and

Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine

Source
Jung Foundation
*1990:

Beatrice Mintz Beatrice Mintz (January 24, 1921 – January 3, 2022) was an American embryologist who contributed to the understanding of genetic modification, cellular differentiation, and cancer, particularly melanoma.Martha J. Bailey, ''American women in sci ...

*1991: *1992: *1993: Robert Daroff *1994: *1995: Friedrich Stelzner *1996: *1997: and *1998: *1999: *2000: *2001: Gustav Born *2002: *2003: *2004: *2005: *2006: *2007: Hans Thoenen *2008: *2009: *2010:

Klaus Rajewsky Klaus Rajewsky (born 12 November 1936 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German immunologist, renowned for his work on B cells. He studied medicine in Frankfurt, Munich and at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. In 1964 he started working at the Institute o ...

*2011: Michel Lazdunski *2012: *2013:

Salvador Moncada Sir Salvador Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FMedSci (born 3 December 1944) is a Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor. He is currently Research Domain Director for Cancer at the University of Manchester. In the past, he was the Research Directo ...

*2014: Charles Weissmann *2015: *2016: Peter Libby *2017: Pascale Cossart *2018:

Wolfgang Baumeister Wolfgang P. Baumeister (born November 22, 1946 in Wesseling bordering Cologne) is a German molecular biologist and biophysicist. His research has been pivotal in the development of Cryoelectron tomography. Education and career After completing h ...

*2019: Pietro De Camilli *2021:

Antonio Lanzavecchia Antonio Lanzavecchia (born in Varese October 9, 1951) is an Italian and Swiss immunologist. As a fellow of Collegio Borromeo he obtained a degree with honors in Medicine in 1976 from the University of Pavia where he specialized in Pediatri ...

*2022:

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Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine

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