The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and the Board of Trustees awarded the 2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize to

 

Professor Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD

Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge MA, USA

 

for developing ground-breaking single-molecule and super-resolution imaging methods and applying these to make seminal discoveries in cell biology and neurobiology.

 

Speakers at the award symposium were:

  • Professor Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
    Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge MA, USA
    "Illuminating biology at the nanoscale & genome-scale by imaging"

  • Professor Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
    Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford CA, USA
    "Inner workings of channelrhodopsins and brains" and
    "Laudation"

  • Dr Jan Ellenberg
    European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
    "Imaging processes of cell division across scales"

  • Professor Dr Stefan W. Hell 
    Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, and Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
    "Molecular-scale resolution in fluorescence microscopy"

 

You will find the programme of the award symposium here.

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