Heinrich Wieland Prize

The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and the Board of Trustees awarded the 2017 Heinrich Wieland Prize to

Professor Alexander Varshavsky

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

for discovering the biology of the ubiquitin system.

Speakers at the award symposium were:

• Professor Daniel Finley, PhD
  Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
  "Editing of ubiquitin chains"

• Professor Dr Franz-Ulrich Hartl
  Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
  Laudation

• Professor David Ron, MD
  University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  "Protein folding homeostasis in the endoplasmic reticulum"
  
  
• Professor Brenda Schulman, PhD
  Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
  "Twists and turns in ubiquitin conjugation"
  
  
• Professor Alexander Varshavsky, PhD
  California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
  "The ubiquitin system, an immense realm"

You will find the programme of the award symposium here.