Ilse and Helmut Wachter Prize
The Ilse and Helmut Wachter Prize is an Austrian science award for research in medicine .
The prize - donated by Ilse Wachter and Helmut Wachter (1929–2012) - is awarded at the Medical University of Innsbruck and is endowed with 15,000 euros.
Award winners
- 1999 Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover for elucidating the ubiquitin system
- 2001 Hanns Möhler for clarifying how anxiety can be influenced by benzodiazepines
- 2003 Wolfgang P. Baumeister for elucidating the structure and the mechanism of the proteasome
- 2005 Cynthia J. Kenyon for the discovery of regulatory mechanisms of the aging process in C. elegans
- 2007 Irving L. Weissman for his pioneering work in stem cell research
- 2010 William A. Catterall for his outstanding research in the field of ion channel research
- 2012 Jean-Laurent Casanova for his work on the genetics of infectious diseases in childhood
- 2014 Alexander Levitzki for his development of signal transduction therapy
- 2016 Johannes C. Clevers for his pioneering work in stem cell and cancer research
- 2018 Matthias W. Hentze