German Immunology Prize
The German Immunology Prize (until 2014 Avery-Landsteiner Prize ) is a since 1973 every two years by the German Society for Immunology conferred (DGfI) Science Award for outstanding international immunologists . The prize is linked to prize money of 10,000 euros.
Structures
The award was named after Oswald Theodore Avery (1877–1955), who provided evidence of the importance of deoxyribonucleic acid , and Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943), the discoverer of the AB0 system of blood groups and a 1930 Nobel Prize winner for physiology .
No self-applications are allowed. The right of proposal lies exclusively with the members of the DGfI. The selection of the award winner is made by the DGfI Presidium in agreement with the Advisory Board.
The prize was sponsored by the Behringwerke in Marburg until 1997 and then by CSL Behring as the legal successor . Celgene has sponsored the award since 2016 .
Award winners
- 1973 Walter F. Goebel , Rockefeller University, New York (USA), Jacques Oudin , Institut Pasteur, Paris (France)
- 1975 Henry G. Kunkel , Rockefeller University, New York (USA)
- 1977 Klaus Rajewsky , Institute for Genetics at the University of Cologne (Germany)
- 1979 César Milstein , Medical Research Council, Cambridge (Great Britain)
- 1981 Susumu Tonegawa , Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel (Switzerland)
- 1983 Ion Gresser , Institute de Recherche Scientifique sur le Cancer, Villejuif (France)
- 1985 Peter Perlmann , University of Stockholm (Sweden)
- 1987 Joost J. Oppenheim , NIH Washington (USA)
- 1990 Harald von Boehmer , Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel (Switzerland)
- 1992 Hans-Georg Rammenee , MPI for Biology, Tübingen (Germany)
- 1994 Tim Mosmann , University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada)
- 1996 Tadamitsu Kishimoto , University of Osaka (Japan)
- 1998 Peter Krammer , German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (Germany)
- 2000 Hidde Ploegh , Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge (USA)
- 2002 Charles A. Janeway , Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven (USA)
- 2004 Klas Kärre , Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden)
- 2006 Philippa Marrack Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Denver (USA)
- 2008 Max Dale Cooper , University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA)
- 2010 Shizuo Akira , WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University (Japan)
- 2012 Alain Fischer , Paris (France)
- 2014 Andreas Radbruch , Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin (Germany)
- 2016 Hans-Reimer Rodewald , German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (Germany)
- 2019 Shimon Sakaguchi , Osaka University (Japan)
Web links
- German Immunology Prize at the German Society for Immunology (dgfi.org)
- ↑ Ulrike Meltzer: Professor Shimon Sakaguchi receives the German Immunology Prize of the DGfI. German Society for Immunology, press release from September 12, 2019 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on September 12, 2019.