Lautenschläger research award

The Lautenschläger Research Prize is a prize that has been awarded every two years at Heidelberg University since 2001 to “outstanding scientists who are active in research”. It is endowed with 250,000 euros and is aimed at all areas of science. The prize is awarded to “internationally recognized scientists from Heidelberg University” or foreign scientists who “are connected to Heidelberg University in scientific cooperation”. The award was donated by Manfred Lautenschläger , who is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of MLP AG . Lautenschläger has also been an Honorary Senator of Heidelberg University since 1998.

Award winners

• 2001 Johanna Stachel , physicist
• 2003 Peter Krammer , cancer researcher (DKFZ)
• 2005 Tonio Hölscher , classical scholar
• 2007 Matthias Hentze and Andreas Kulozik , physicians
• 2009 Eva Grebel , astrophysics
• 2011 Joachim Wittbrodt , developmental biologist
• 2013 Ralf Bartenschlager , virologist
• 2015 Axel Michaels , Indologist
• 2018 Karlheinz Meier , physicist (posthumous)

Web links

• Lautenschläger Research Award at Heidelberg University (uni-hd.de)
• Prizes of the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation ( Memento from July 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )