Heinrich Wieland Prize

The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and the Board of Trustees awarded the 2024 Heinrich Wieland Prize to

Professor Benjamin F. Cravatt III, PhD

Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA

for his groundbreaking contributions to the development and application of methods for the functional annotation of enzymes.

Speakers at the award symposium were:

• Professor Nenad Ban, PhD
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Revealing the machinery for production of proteins in human cells

• Professor Dr Jens C. Brüning
  Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
  CNS-dependent control of metabolism

• Professor Benjamin F. Cravatt III, PhD
  The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
  Activity-based proteomics - protein and ligand discovery on a global scale
  
  
• Professor Dr Cristina García-Cáceres
  Helmholtz Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany
  Beyond neurons in the neuroendocrine control of metabolism
  
  
• Johannes Kohl, PhD
  The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
  Plasticity of the parental brain
  
  
• Julia Mahamid, PhD
  European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
  Enabling discovery by in-cell structural biology
  
  
• Professor Gero Miesenböck, MD, FRS
  University of Oxford, UK
  Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep
  
  
• Kelly Nguyen, PhD
  MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, UK
  Safeguarding the ends: Structural mechanisms of human telomeric complexes
  
  
• Professor Dr Paola Picotti
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
  Decoding the protein dance
  
  
• Professor James E. Rothman, PhD
  Yale University, New Haven, USA
  The mechanisms of explosive neurotransmitter release
  
  
• Professor Edward Tate, PhD
  Imperial College London and The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
  Chemical biology approaches for drug discovery
  
  
• Professor Christoph A. Thaiss, PhD
  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
  Body-brain communication
  
  
• Professor Ekaterina V. Vinogradova
  The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
  Chemical proteomic approaches to study post-translational and pharmacological landscapes of immune dysregulation

You will find the programme of the award symposium here.