Eva Luise Köhler Research Award
The Eva Luise Köhler Research Award is a research award endowed with a specific purpose of 50,000 euros, which has been awarded annually since 2008 by the " Eva Luise and Horst Köhler Foundation for People with Rare Diseases" in cooperation with the Alliance of Chronic Rare Diseases eV for research projects that dedicate themselves to research into rare diseases . The patron and namesake is Eva Luise Köhler . Due to its high endowment and the prominence of its patron, the prize has a broad media presence, which is also supported by other celebrities such as the then Crown Princess and now Queen of Spain . Eva Luise Köhler explained her commitment to the foundation in newspaper interviews. On the occasion of the ten-year existence of the foundation and the ninth award of the research award, Federal President Joachim Gauck gave a greeting at the festive matinee in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin on March 5, 2016 .
Award winners
- 2008: Volkmar Gieselmann and Hans-Joachim Galla for research on the blood-brain barrier
- 2009: Leena Bruckner-Tuderman and her team for research on epidermolysis bullosa
- 2010: Karin Jurkat-Rott and Marc-André Weber for the project to improve drug therapy for people with hypokalemic periodic paralysis
- 2011: Christoph Klein and his team for the development of a novel gene therapy for children with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
- 2012: Oliver Semler from the University Clinic Cologne for research on translational therapy in osteogenesis imperfecta
- 2013: Gesine Hansen and Thomas Moritz for the development of a gene therapy treatment for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- 2014: Niels Birbaumer for a project on the communication of completely paralyzed people using a brain-computer connection
- 2015: Heymut Omran for his research on the causes of primary ciliary dyskinesia , recognition award for Stephan Lobitz for a pilot project on newborn screening for sickle cell anemia
- 2016: Sven Thoms and Ekkehard Wilichowski as well as the working group for neuromuscular diseases for a project to treat certain forms of muscular dystrophy
- 2017: Michael Schmeißer and the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome research team
- 2018: Ulrike Hedrich-Klimosch and her team for work on drug therapy for epilepsy patients with specific gene mutations
- 2019: Björn Schumacher for his work on diseases with impaired DNA repair such as Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) or Cockayne syndrome (CS)
- 2020: Martina Rauner and Ulrike Baschant for their work on the basics of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP)
Web links
- Research award for advances in medicine
- The Eva Luise Köhler Research Prize for Rare Diseases and award winners on the website of the Eva Luise and Horst Köhler Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lifelong dependent on wheelchair and care , Main-Post
- ^ The so-called evil , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- ↑ Adelheid Müller-Lissner: Connecting patients with the world , Der Tagesspiegel , March 16, 2014
- ^ First of all, a sparkling wine for the award , Die Welt , February 28, 2012
- ↑ Princess Letizia shines in Berlin , BZ , March 1, 2010, accessed February 22, 2016
- ↑ Eva Luise Köhler on volunteering and the fate of her daughter , Berliner Zeitung .
- ↑ Speech by Federal President Gauck , March 5, 2016
- ↑ When muscles become bones: Eva Luise Köhler honors research on rare bone diseases. (PDF; 2.9 MB) In: elhks.de. Eva Luise and Horst Köhler Foundation, January 31, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 .