Heinrich Wieland Prize

The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and the Board of Trustees awarded the 2018 Heinrich Wieland Prize to

Professor Pascale Cossart

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

for her fundamental contributions to the field of Molecular Infection Biology.

Speakers at the award symposium were:

• Professor Bonnie Bassler, PhD
  Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
  "Bacterial quorum sensing and its control"

• Professor Pascale Cossart, PhD
  Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
  "The bacterium Listeria monocytogenes: a unique model in biology"

• Professor David Holden, PhD
  Imperial College London, London, UK
  "Suppression of adaptive immunity by Salmonella"
  
  
• Professor Dr Petra Schwille
  Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
  Laudation
  
  
• Professor Dr Jörg Vogel
  University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
  "The RNA world of the human microbiome"

You will find the programme of the award symposium here.