News Archive - Heinrich Wieland Prize

24 August 2024

2024 Heinrich Wieland Prize: Identifying what proteins do and how their contribute to disease

Benjamin Cravatt developed new method to identify disease-causing proteins and find drugs to target them.

2023 Heinrich Wieland Prize: Reversing the Pandemic of Obesity and Diabetes

Heinrich Wieland Prize for Munich researcher: Breakthrough in the battle against obesity and diabetes.

2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize: Watching molecules at work – from the cell level to the organ level

For developing ground-breaking single-molecule and super-resolution imaging methods and applying these to make seminal discoveries in cell biology and neurobiology.

Unravelling the immune system – 2021 Heinrich Wieland Prize for Thomas Boehm

For ground-breaking contributions to understanding the evolution of the immune system in vertebrates.

Targeting unwanted intracellular proteins for degradation - Craig M. Crews awarded the 2020 Heinrich Wieland Prize

For pioneering targeted protein degradation as a new therapeutic principle in pharmacology.

Deciphering how the brain controls our weight - Jens Brüning honoured with 2019 Heinrich Wieland Prize

For his pioneering research on how the brain regulates energy metabolism.

How bacteria invade us - Pascale Cossart honoured with 2018 Heinrich Wieland Prize

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

The “everywhere” protein: honour for the unravellor of its biology, Alexander Varshavsky

For discovering the biology of the ubiquitin system.

Editing the book of life – the 2016 Heinrich Wieland Prize for Professor Peter Schultz

Fundamental contributions to the biologically inspired synthesis of new molecules and, in particular, for the expansion of the genetic code

Spot on for brain research: controlling nerve cells with light – 100,000-euro Heinrich Wieland Prize goes to Gero Miesenböck

Breakthrough concept of optogenetics and its proof of principle

Fusion for brain signals – 100,000 euro Heinrich Wieland Prize for Reinhard Jahn

Paradigmatic studies on membrane fusion, synaptic vesicles, and neurotransmitter release

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2013 goes to Professor Tony Kouzarides

Epigenetics pioneer honored for research on gene regulation and cancer...

The Heinrich Wieland Prize 2012 goes to Carolyn R. Bertozzi

The chemist’s breakthrough method of changing cellular sugar codes can pave the way for new therapies, e.g. against cancer...

Proteins: It all depends on a correct folding plan

The protein researcher Franz-Ulrich Hartl will be awarded the Heinrich Wieland Prize 2011...

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2010

Heinrich Wieland Prize goes to scientist for work on key structures in human fatty acid synthesis...

Invitation to the 2010 Heinrich Wieland Prize Award Ceremony...

Videos of the 2009 Award Ceremony

Some records of the 2009 Award Ceremony...

Pictures of the 2009 Award Ceremony

The 2009 Heinrich Wieland Prize Award Ceremony took place in Munich on October 29th....

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2009

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2009 awarded for outstanding achievements in the synthesis of key natural products...

Closing in on the cause of diabetes

Diabetes researcher Markus Stoffel is awarded the prestigous Heinrich Wieland Prize 2008 – Nepomuk Zöllner receives the Heinrich Wieland Medal 2008 for his lifetime achievement in gout research...

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2007 awarded to Joachim Herz for uncovering novel functions for lipoprotein receptors

Ingelheim and Munich/Germany, 26 October 2007 - Prof. Joachim Herz, M.D., from the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (USA), received this year’s Heinrich Wieland Prize for his ...

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2006 awarded for excellence in glycolipid chemistry

Ingelheim and Munich/Germany, 03 November 2006 - Prof. Alois Fuerstner from the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research in Muelheim/Ruhr received this year’s Heinrich Wieland Prize for exceptional achievements in the synthesis ...

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2005 and Gold Medal for lifetime achievements awarded

Ingelheim and Munich/Germany, 4 November 2005 – Prof. Helen H. Hobbs from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, is the winner of the Heinrich Wieland Prize 2005. She received the award and the prize money of € 25,000 at the ...

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2004 for research into the role of endocannobinoids in neuronal communication in the brain

Ingelheim/Germany, 12 November 2004 - The Heinrich Wieland Prize has been jointly awarded to Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Prof. Roger Nicoll the University of California, San Francisco for their research into ...

Heinrich Wieland Prize 2003 for research into the role of hormo

Ingelheim, Germany, 6 November 2003 – The Heinrich Wieland Prize, endowed with EUR 25,000, has this year been awarded to Prof. David J. Mangelsdorf, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Boehringer Ingelheim donates Heinrich Wieland Prize for obesity

Ingelheim, Germany, 8 November 2002 - The Heinrich Wieland Prize worth EUR 25,000 was awarded to Prof. Stephen O`Rahilly from the Departments of Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, on 8 November