The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the

German Cancer Research Center The German Cancer Research Center (known as the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum or simply DKFZ in German language, German) is a national cancer research center based in Heidelberg, Germany. It is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German ...

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...

(DKFZ), which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany. The prize has been awarded annually since 1981, and currently has an honorarium of €50,000.

List of Recipients

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Meyenburg Award Winners
* 1981 Werner W. Franke * 1982/1983 Holger Kirchner and * 1984 Lutz Gissmann * 1985 Volker Sturm * 1986 Karin Mölling * 1987

Mary Osborn Mary Osborn (born in 1940)F. M. Watt. (2004) "Mary Osborn" ''Journal of Cell Science'' 117(8):1255-1256. is a L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award-winning English cell biologist who, until she stopped running an active laboratory in 2005, was ...

* 1988 Elisabeth Gateff * 1989 * 1990 * 1991

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 th ...

* 1992 Walter Birchmeier * 1993 Johannes Gerdes * 1994 * 1995 David P. Lane * 1996

Peter H. Krammer Peter Heinrich Krammer (born in 1946) is a Germans, German immunologist and one of the directors of The National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), as well as the head of the Division Immunogenetics at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Hei ...

* 1997 Patrick S. Moore and Yuan Chang * 1998

Richard D. Wood Richard D. Wood (born June 3, 1955 in Boulder, Colorado) is an American molecular biologist specializing in research on DNA repair and mutation. He is known for pioneering studies on nucleotide excision repair (NER), particularly for reconstit ...

* 1999

Carl-Henrik Heldin Carl-Henrik Heldin (born 9 August 1952) is Chairman of the Board for the Nobel Foundation, and a molecular biologist and medical researcher. He has been director of the Uppsala branch of Ludwig Cancer Research since 1986 and professor in molecular ...

* 2000 Matthias Mann * 2001 * 2002

Andrew Fire Andrew Zachary Fire (born April 27, 1959) is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mell ...

* 2004 Erich A. Nigg * 2005

Thomas Tuschl Thomas Tuschl (born 1 June 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 ...

* 2006

Elizabeth Blackburn Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the ...

* 2007

Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the U ...

* 2008

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

* 2009

Brian Druker Brian J. Druker, M.D. (born April 30, 1955) is a physician-scientist and JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research at Oregon Health & Science University ( OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. He previously served as chief executive officer and director of OHSU's ...

* 2010

Alan Ashworth Alan Ashworth, FRS (born 1960 in Bolton, Lancashire) is a British molecular biologist, noted for his work on genes involved in cancer susceptibility. He is currently the President of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at t ...

* 2011

Stefan Hell Stefan Walter Hell (: born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, bo ...

* 2012

Charles Mullighan Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

* 2013

Nathanael Gray Nathanael S. Gray is an American chemist. He serves as Krishnan-Shah Family Professor of chemical and systems biology at Stanford University and director of cancer therapeutics programme at Stanford University School of Medicine. Previously he wa ...

* 2014 Peter Campbell (Sanger Institute) * 2015 * 2016

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, sh ...

* 2017 Nitzan Rosenfeld (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) * 2019 Benjamin L. Ebert * 2020/2021

Uğur Şahin Uğur Şahin (; born 19 September 1965) is a German oncologist, immunologist, entrepreneur, and billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed the world’s first mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19.He also ...

Özlem Türeci Özlem Türeci (; born 6 March 1967) is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. In 2008, she co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech, which in 2020 developed the first messenger RNA-based vaccine approved for use against Coronavir ...

Katalin Karikó Katalin "Kati" Karikó (, ; born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in ribonucleic acid (RNA)-mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro-Transcription (biology), transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA) for protein repla ...

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