Heinrich Wieland Prize

The Heinrich Wieland Prize (HWP) is named after the German chemist and Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957). Since 1964, the Heinrich Wieland Prize has been awarded once a year for innovative scientific work in the fields of biochemistry, chemistry, physiology and clinical medicine of fats and lipids. The area in which the HWP is awarded today (as of 2013) are biologically active molecules and systems as well as their clinical significance in chemistry, biochemistry and physiology. The prize is one of the most prestigious awards internationally and is endowed with 100,000 euros (as of 2015).

history

The prize was established in 1963 and has been awarded annually since 1964, including to later Nobel Prize winners. The Heinrich Wieland Gold Medal , which is not awarded annually, has also existed since 1989 as an award for life's work . In 2000 the Margarine Institute ended the sponsorship role for the award, which the institute had held since 1963; since then, the prize has initially been donated by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim . The reason is the close ties between the namesake and the Boehringer family and company; Heinrich Wieland was a cousin of Helene Boehringer, wife of company founder Albert Boehringer . Heinrich Wieland was also a consultant at Boehringer Ingelheim from 1915 to the 1920s, during which time he set up the company's first scientific department. The award has been endowed by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation since 2011 .

Award winners

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• 2019 Jens Claus Brüning , Max Planck Institute for Metabolic Research, Cologne (Germany)
• 2018 Pascale Cossart , Institut Pasteur (France)
• 2017 Alexander Varshavsky , California Institute of Technology (USA)
• 2016 Peter G. Schultz , Scripps Research Institute (USA)
• 2015 Gero Miesenböck , University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
• 2014 Reinhard Jahn , Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Germany)
• 2013 Tony Kouzarides , University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
• 2012 Carolyn Bertozzi , University of California, Berkeley (USA)
• 2011 Franz-Ulrich Hartl , Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried (Germany)
• 2010 Nenad Ban , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Switzerland)
• 2009 Steven Ley , University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
• 2008 Markus Stoffel , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Switzerland)
• 2007 Joachim Herz , Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (USA)
• 2006 Alois Fürstner , Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim / Ruhr (Germany)
• 2005 Helen H. Hobbs , University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School (USA)
• 2004
  • Raphael Mechoulam , Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel)
  • Roger Nicoll , University of California San Francisco (USA)
• 2003 David J. Mangelsdorf , Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (USA)
• 2002 Stephen O'Rahilly , Department of Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
• 2001 Felix Wieland , Biochemistry Center of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany)
• 2000 Lewis Clayton Cantley , Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston (USA)
• 1999 Ernst Heinz , Institute for General Botany, University of Hamburg (Germany)
• 1998 Thomas E. Willnow , Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Working Group Lipids and Gentherapy, Berlin (Germany)
• 1997 Bruce M. Spiegelman , Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Boston (USA)
• 1996 Jeffrey M. Friedman , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Research Laboratories, The Rockefeller University, New York (USA)
• 1995
  • Jean E. Schaffer , Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  • Dennis E. Vance , Lipid and Lipoprotein Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada)
• 1994 Joachim Seelig , Department for Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter, University of Basel (Switzerland)
• 1993 Walter Neupert , Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Physical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (Germany)
• 1992 Lev D. Bergelson , Shemyakin Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry (Russia) n Academie of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)
• 1991 Jan L. Breslow , Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York (USA)
• 1991 Wolfgang J. Schneider , Institute for Molecular Genetics, University of Vienna (Austria)
• 1990
  • James E. Rothman , Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey (USA)
  • Karel WA Wirtz , Center for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (Netherlands)
• 1989 Ching-Hsien Huang , Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)
• 1988 Lawrence CB Chan , Department of Cell Biology and Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (USA)
• 1987
  • Akira Endo , Department of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, Tokyo Noko University, Tokyo (Japan)
  • Dietrich Keppler , Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Department Tumorbiochemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg (Germany)
• 1986 Eugene P. Kennedy , Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry, Boston (USA)
• 1985 Guy Ourisson , Center de Neurochemie, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (France)
• 1984
  • Olaf Adam , Medical Polyclinic, University Hospital, Munich (Germany)
  • Gerhart Kurz , Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
• 1983 John M. Dietschy , University of Texas, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Dallas (USA)
• 1982
  • Hansjörg Eibl , Max Planck Institute, Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute, Göttingen (Germany)
  • Robert William Mahley , The Gladstone Foundation, San Francisco General Hospital, Medical Center, San Francisco (USA)
• 1981 Bengt I. Samuelsson , Karolinska Institutet, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Stockholm (Sweden)
• 1980
  • H. Bryan Brewer , Molecular Disease Branch Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (USA)
  • Barry Lewis , Department of Chemical Pathology Metabolic Disorders, St. Thomas's Hospital, Medical School, London (United Kingdom)
• 1979 Konrad Sandhoff , Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-University, Bonn (Germany)
• 1978
  • Olga Stein , Lipid Research Laboratory, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem (Israel)
  • Yechezkiel Stein , Lipid Research Laboratory, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem (Israel)
• 1977
  • Gerd Assmann , Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Institute for Biochemistry and Technology, Cologne (Germany)
  • Helmut K. Mangold , HP-Kaufmann-Institut, Federal Institute for Lipid Research, Münster (Germany)
• 1976
  • Dietrich Seidel , Medicinal University Hospital, Institute for Microbiology and Biology, Heidelberg (Germany)
  • Eckhart Schweizer , Institute for Biochemistry, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
• 1975
  • Ernst Ferber , Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg-Zähringen (Germany)
  • Klaus Resch , Institute for Immunobiology, Heidelberg University (Germany)
• 1974
  • Michael S. Brown , University of Texas, Health Science Center Dallas, South-western Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine (USA)
  • Joseph L. Goldstein , University of Texas, Health Science Center Dallas, South-western Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine (USA)
• 1973 Shōsaku Numa , Department of Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine (Japan)
• 1972
  • Heiner Greten , University Hospital, Heidelberg (Germany)
  • Kurt Oette , University Hospital, Cologne (Germany)
• 1971 Laurens van Deenen , Biochemical Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht (Netherlands)
• 1970
  • Christian Bode , University Hospital, Marburg (Germany)
  • Harald Goebell , University Hospital, Marburg (Germany)
• 1969 Werner Seubert , Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University of Göttingen (Germany)
• 1968 David Adriaan van Dorp , Unilever Research Laboratories, Vlaardingen (Netherlands)
• 1967
  • Heinrich Wagener , University Hospital, Heidelberg (Germany)
  • Bruno Frosch , University Hospital, Heidelberg (Germany)
• 1966 not awarded
• 1965 Wilhelm Stoffel , Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University of Cologne (Germany)
• 1964 Ernst Klenk , Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University of Cologne (Germany)

Winner of the Heinrich Wieland Gold Medal for life's work

• 2008 Nepomuk Zöllner , Munich (Germany)
• 2005 Karl Decker , Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg (Germany)
• 1995 Theodor Wieland , Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg (Germany)
• 1989 Gotthard Schettler , Heidelberg University Medical Center (Germany)

Web links

• Heinrich Wieland Prize - Homepage

Sources / individual references

1. ^ Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation - mission statement and goals ; Retrieved October 9, 2013
2. ^ Heinrich Wieland Prize: Laureates 2010–2018