Meyenburg Prize

{{Short description|German cancer research award}}

The Meyenburg Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research by the Meyenburg Foundation in support of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (DKFZ), which is the largest biomedical research institution in Germany. The prize has been awarded annually since 1981, and currently has an honorarium of €50,000.[http://www.meyenburg-stiftung.de/2preis.htm Meyenburg Recipients List, in German]

==List of Recipients==

Source: [http://www.meyenburg-stiftung.de/2preis.htm Meyenburg Award Winners]

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• 1981 Werner W. Franke
• 1982/1983 Holger Kirchner and {{ill|Volker Schirrmacher|de|}}
• 1984 Lutz Gissmann
• 1985 Volker Sturm
• 1986 Karin Mölling
• 1987 Mary Osborn
• 1988 Elisabeth Gateff
• 1989 {{ill|Peter Herrlich|de|}}
• 1990 {{ill|Rainer Storb|de|}}
• 1991 Hans-Georg Rammensee
• 1992 Walter Birchmeier
• 1993 Johannes Gerdes
• 1994 {{ill|Gert Riethmüller|de|}}
• 1995 David P. Lane
• 1996 Peter H. Krammer
• 1997 Patrick S. Moore and Yuan Chang
• 1998 Richard D. Wood
• 1999 Carl-Henrik Heldin
• 2000 Matthias Mann
• 2001 {{ill|Shoichiro Tsukita|ja|月田承一郎}}
• 2002 Andrew Fire
• 2004 Erich A. Nigg
• 2005 Thomas Tuschl
• 2006 Elizabeth Blackburn
• 2007 Shinya Yamanaka
• 2008 Hans Clevers
• 2009 Brian Druker
• 2010 Alan Ashworth{{Cite web|url=https://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/2010/dkfz_pm_10_52-2010-Meyenburg-Award-for-Discoverer-of-BRCA-2-Breast-Cancer-Gene.php|title=2010 Meyenburg Award for Discoverer of BRCA 2 Breast Cancer Gene|website=www.dkfz.de}}
• 2011 Stefan Hell{{Cite web|url=https://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/2011/dkfz-11-61-Meyenburg-Award-goes-to-Stefan-Hell.php|title=From microscopy to nanoscopy: 2011 Meyenburg Award goes to Stefan Hell|website=www.dkfz.de}}
• 2012 Charles Mullighan{{Cite web|url=https://www.dkfz.de/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2012/dkfz-pm-12-59-Spurensuche-im-Erbgut-von-Blutkrebs-Meyenburg-Preis-2012-geht-an-Charles-Mullighan.php|title=Spurensuche im Erbgut von Blutkrebs: Meyenburg-Preis 2012 geht an Charles G. Mullighan|website=www.dkfz.de}}
• 2013 Nathanael Gray
• 2014 Peter Campbell (Sanger Institute){{cite web| url= https://www.dkfz.de/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2014/dkfz-pm-14-60-Das-Krebs-Erbgut-im-Kreuzverhoer-Meyenburg-Preis-2014-geht-an-Peter-Campbell.php|title=Das Krebs-Erbgut im Kreuzverhör: Meyenburg-Preis 2014 geht an Peter Campbell|publisher=German Cancer Research Center|accessdate= 26 November 2015}}
• 2015 {{ill|Ton Schumacher|nl||de|Ton N. Schumacher}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dkfz.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/2015/dkfz-pm-15-52-2015-Meyenburg-Award-for-Ton-Schumacher.php|title= How the immune system recognizes cancer: 2015 Meyenburg Award for Ton Schumacher|publisher= German Cancer Research Center|accessdate= 26 November 2015}}
• 2016 Emmanuelle Charpentier
• 2017 Nitzan Rosenfeld (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)
• 2019 Benjamin L. Ebert
• 2020/2021 Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Katalin Karikó

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