Emil von Behring Prize
right: Ulrich Steinhoff - Yasmine Belkaid - Katharina Krause - Jochen Reutter ( gsk )
The Emil von Behring Prize of the Philipps University of Marburg , named after Emil von Behring , Nobel Prize in Medicine , is one of the most important German science prizes . It has been awarded about every two years since 1942. The Emil von Behring Prize consists of a medal with the portrait of the namesake and is endowed with 25,000 euros. According to the statutes, the prize is awarded to scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of medicine, veterinary medicine and the natural sciences. In memory of Emil von Behring, scientists from the fields of immunobiology and disease control are to be favored.
The German Society for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (DGTI) has been giving an Emil von Behring lecture since 1990 .
Award winners
- 1942 Paul Uhlenhuth
- 1944 Richard Kuhn
- 1948 Hans Schmidt
- 1950 Gaston Ramon
- 1952 Frank Macfarlane Burnet
- 1954 Michael Heidelberger
- 1956 Hans Kleinschmidt
- 1958 Pierre Grabar
- 1960 Fritz Kaudewitz
- 1962 Werner Schäfer
- 1964 Otto Westphal
- 1966 Albert Hewett Coons
- 1968 Milan Hašek
- 1970 Gustav Nossal
- 1972 Michael Sela
- 1974 George Klein
- 1976 Hans J. Müller-Eberhard
- 1978 Peter Perlmann
- 1980 Tomio Tada
- 1982 Robert Huber
- 1984 René Germanier
- 1986 Friedrich Deinhardt
- 1988 Tak Wah Mak
- 1990 Gregory Winter
- 1992 Don Craig Wiley
- 1994 Shigekazu Nagata
- 1996 Ralph M. Steinman
- 1998 Marco Baggiolini
- 2000 Volker ter Meulen
- 2002 Fritz Melchers
- 2004 Ruslan Medzhitov
- 2006 Werner Goebel and Gerhard Gottschalk
- 2008 Klaus Rajewsky
- 2010 Hans-Dieter Klenk
- 2014 Stewart T. Cole
- 2017 Yasmine Belkaid
