Otto Naegeli Prize
The Otto Naegeli Prize is a Swiss prize for medical research that is usually awarded every two years. It is one of the most important Swiss medical prizes and is endowed with 200,000 Swiss francs .
The award honors researchers in Switzerland and is also intended to promote research by young scientists in particular. The prize was founded in 1960 and since 1984 has been endowed with 100,000 Swiss francs by the Otto Naegeli Foundation. It has been awarded by the Bonizzi Theler Foundation since 1986 , which has awarded it every two years from 1988 onwards with prize money of 200,000 Swiss francs. It is named after Otto Naegeli (1871–1938), professor of internal medicine at the University of Zurich .
Award winners
- 1960: Franz Leuthardt (1903–1985), biochemistry, endocrinology
- 1961: Kitty Ponse (1897–1982), zoology, endocrinology
- 1962: Gian Töndury (1906–1985), anatomy
- 1964: Robert Schwyzer (1920–2015), zoology, endocrinology
- 1965: Ernst Luescher (1916–2002), biochemistry, thrombocytes, and Micheline Bettex-Galland (1928–2015), biochemistry, thrombocytes
- 1966: Andrea Prader (1919–2001), pediatrics, metabolism
- 1967: Albert Renold (1923–1988), biochemistry, endocrinology
- 1969: Konrad Akert (1919–2015), Neurobiology
- 1970: Robert Keller (1923-2004), Immunology
- 1972: Charles Rouiller (1922–1973), morphology, histology, Hugo Aebi (1921–1983), biochemistry, clinical chemistry
- 1973: Hans R. Mühlemann (1917–1997), dentistry
- 1974: Ernst Sorkin (1921–2009), biochemistry, oncology
- 1975: Max M. Burger (1933-2019), oncology
- 1977: Hugo Studer (* 1929), internal medicine, thyroid
- 1978: Rudolf Froesch (1929–2014), Endocrinology, Insulin
- 1979: Max L. Birnstiel (1933-2014), molecular biology
- 1981: Günter Baumgartner (1924–1991), neurology, neurophysiology
- 1982: Walter J. Gehring (1939–2014), Developmental Biology
- 1983: Jules Angst (* 1926), psychiatry, depression
- 1984: Werner Straub (1933–2019), internal medicine, metabolism
- 1986: Lelio Orci (1937–2019), endocrinology, cell biology
- 1988: Rolf Zinkernagel (* 1944), Experimental Immunology, Virology
- 1990: Pierre Vassali (* 1931), pathology, hematology
- 1992: Heidi Diggelmann (* 1936), microbiology, retroviruses
- 1994: Heini Murer (* 1949), Physiology, Membrane Transport
- 1996: Ueli Schibler (* 1947), molecular biology, biorhythms
- 1998: Hans Hengartner (* 1944), Experimental Immunology, Virology
- 2000: Susanne Suter (* 1943), pediatrics, cystic fibrosis
- 2002: Walter Wahli (* 1946), cell biology, energy balance
- 2004: Ernst Hafen (* 1956), Developmental and Systems Biology
- 2006: Susan M. Gasser (* 1955), molecular biology, epigenetics
- 2008: Pierre-Alain Clavien (* 1957), abdominal surgery, transplant
- 2010: Amos Bairoch (* 1957), bioinformatics, proteomics; Ruedi Aebersold (* 1954), systems biology, proteomics
- 2012: Markus H. Heim (* 1961), hepatology, innate immunity; Lars E. French (* 1963), Dermatology
- 2014: Silvia Arber (* 1968), neurobiology
- 2016: Markus G. Manz (* 1967) and Adrian Ochsenbein (* 1967), oncology
- 2018: Nenad Ban (* 1966), structural biology
- 2020: Christian Lüscher (* 1963), Neurobiology and Neurology