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 Heinrich Wieland Laureates as a pdf.

2024: Prof. 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.

Professor Dr Dr Matthias H. Tschöp, Helmholtz Munich/TUM, Munich, Germany (© Helmholtz Munich)

2023: Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Matthias H. Tschöp

Helmholtz Munich & Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
for his seminal discoveries of physiological mechanisms regulating food intake and body weight and exploiting these to develop new therapeutic strategies to treat obesity and diabetes.

Professor Xiawei Zhuang, PhD (© Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung)

2022: Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang

Harvard University &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.

Professor Dr Thomas Boehm, Heinrich Wieland Laureate 2021 (© Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics/Rockoff)

2021: Prof. Thomas Boehm

Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
for his ground-breaking contributions to understanding the evolution of the immune system in vertebrates.

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Professor Dr Craig M. Crews, Heinrich Wieland Laureate 2020

2020: Prof. Craig M. Crews

Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
for pioneering targeted protein degradation as a new principle in pharmacology.

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