Heinrich Wieland Prize Laureates

Among the Heinrich Wieland Laureates are a large number of world-renowned scientists. Four of its former recipients were later awarded the Nobel Prize. Here, you will find the list of Laureates as pdf.

1989 – 1980

1989: Prof. Ching-Hsien Huang

Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Contribution: Asymmetric phospholipids and interdigitated bilayer systems

1988: Prof. Lawrence C.B. Chan

Department of Cell Biology and Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

Contribution: Apolipoprotein multigene family: structure, expression, evolution, and molecular genetics

1987: Prof. Akira Endo

Department of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, Tokyo Noko University, Tokyo, Japan

Contribution: Chemical, biochemical and pharmacological studies of cholesterol-lowering drugs inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase

1987: Prof. Dietrich Keppler

Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Department Tumorbiochemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Contribution: Metabolism and analysis of leukotrienes

1986: Prof. Eugene P. Kennedy

Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry, Boston, USA

Contribution: Metabolism and function of membrane lipids

1985: Prof. Guy Ourisson

Centre de Neurochemie, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Contribution: From petroleum to the evolution of biomembranes: the Hopanoides, a new class of bacterial lipids

1984: Prof. Olaf Adam

Medical Polyclinic, University Hospital, Munich, Germany

Contribution: Nutrition physiological investigations with specific diets: The metabolism of poly unsaturated fatty acids and the prostaglandi

1984: Prof. Gerhart Kurz

Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Contribution: Investigations on the transcellular transport of cholic acids using photo affinity labeling

1983: Prof. John M. Dietschy

University of Texas, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Dallas, USA

Contribution: The regulation of cholesterol balance across the differentiated tissues of the whole animal

1982: Prof. Hansjörg Eibl

Max Plank Institute, Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer Institute, Goettingen, Germany

Contribution: Phospholipids as functional components of biological membranes

1982: Prof. Robert William Mahley

The Gladstone Foundation, San Francisco General Hospital, Medical Center, San Francisco, USA

Contribution: Apoliprotein E and cholesterol metabolism

1981: Prof. Bengt Samuelson

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden

Contribution: Leukotrienes: novel mediators in allergy and inflammation

1980: Prof. H. Bryan Brewer

Molecular Disease Branch Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, USA

Contribution: Molecular structure and metabolism of human apolipoproteins and lipoproteins

1980: Prof. Barry Lewis

Department of Chemical Pathology Metabolic Disorders, St. Thomas's Hospital, Medical School, London, UK

Contribution: Genes and nutrition in the regulation of plasma lipoprotein metabolism

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