Anna-Monika Prize

The Anna-Monika Prize is an award of the Anna-Monika-Stiftung, based in Düsseldorf, which has been awarded every two years since 1966. The prize is endowed with 25,000 euros and is intended to honor special research achievements in the field of biological causes and functional disorders of depression .

The foundation was established in 1965 by the Dortmund businessman Peter Rehme († 1978) in memory of his daughter Anna-Monika, who was seriously ill with depression.

The first chairman of the award committee was Friedrich Panse from 1965 to 1971 , followed by Paul Kielholz from 1971 to 1989 , Hanfried Helmchen from 1989 to 1999 and Fritz Henn from 1999 to 2013 . Rainer Rupprecht has been chairman of the award committee since 2013 .

Award winners

The prizes are documented as various combinations of first, second and third prizes on the foundation's website.

Edition	Years	Prize winners (1st prizes)	Prize winners (2nd prizes)	Prize winners (3rd prizes)
01.	1966/1967	Joseph Jacob Schildkraut and coworkers	Jules fear
02.	1968/1969	Mogens Schou and employees	Alec Coppen and David Murray Shaw	Gerald Curzon and Mario Perez-Reyes
03.	1970/1971	Folke Sjöqvist and staff William E. Bunney , Frederick K. Goodwin, and Dennis L. Murphy	Norbert Matussek	Burkhard Pflug and Rainer Tölle
04th	1972/1973	George Winokur	James W. Maas Merton Sandler and Moussa BH Youdim	Herman M. van Praag Leopold Flohé
05.	1974/1975	Arvid Carlsson	Edward J. Sachar	Per Kragh-Sørensen Marie Asberg
06th	1976/1977	Martin Roth	Fridolin Sulser AR Green and David Grahame Grahame-Smith	David J. Copper
07th	1978/1979	Solomon H. Snyder	Max Fink	Elliot S. Gershon
08th.	1980/1981	Julien Mendlewicz Salomon Z. Langer		Bernard J. Carrol Anna Wirz-Justice and Thomas A. Wehr J. May
09.	1982/1983	Irwin J. Kopin	Jerzy Vetulani and Robert H. Belmaker	Per Bech
10.	1984/1985		Detlev von Zerssen , Mathias Berger , Peter Doerr Gerald L. Klerman , Myrna M. Weissman	Alexander Borbély Kenneth J. Kellar
11.	1986/1987	Janice A. Egeland and coworkers	Charles B. Nemeroff	Joachim E. Schultz
12.	1988/1989	Robert M. Post	Gregor Laakmann	Helmut Wachtel
13.	1990/1991		Norman E. Rosenthal and Thomas A. Wehr Giorgio Racagni Sofia Avissar and Gabriel Schreiber
14th	1992/1993	Hans Ågren	Beth J. Hoffmann Hans Förstl	Paul Linkowski
15th	1994/1995	Dennis S. Charney and George R. Heninger Pedro L. Delgado	Nicholas Bards
16.	1996/1997	Kenneth S. Kendler		Isabella Heuser
17th	1998/1999	Lewis L. Judd Hagop S. Akiskal
18th	2000/2001	Ronald S. Duman
19th	2002/2003	Florian Holsboer
20th	2004/2005	Elliot S. Gershon
21st	2006/2007	Alexander H. Glassman
22nd	2008/2009	Aaron T. Beck Gerhard Sanacora and John H. Krystal
23.	2010/2011	Eric J. Nestler	Rainer Rupprecht
24.	2012/2013	Alan F. Schatzberg
25th	2014/2015	Ned H. Kalin Carmine Pariante
26th	2016/2017	Eero H. Castrén	Michael Bauer
27.	2018/2019	Andrew H. Miller	Diego H. Pizagalli Manuel Mameli

Web links

• Anna Monika Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Isabelle Lork: Anna Monika Prize 2019. German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN), press release from September 25, 2019 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on September 25, 2019.