Robert Pfleger Research Award
The Robert Pfleger Research Prize is a German medical prize that has been awarded every two years by the Bamberg Doctor Robert Pfleger Foundation since 1986 . It is named after the German chemist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur Robert Pfleger . The prize is awarded to “outstanding scientific achievements in the field of 'Basics and Perspectives in Medicine'” (according to the Foundation's award regulations). Individuals as well as research teams are taken into account. The Board of Trustees decides on the award of the prize. The award is endowed with 50,000 euros per winner, if there are more than two award winners, up to 100,000 euros will be split.
Award winners
- 1986 Theodor Bücher , German physiologist, Munich; Karl-Julius Ullrich , German human biologist, Frankfurt / Main
- 1988 Konrad Beyreuther , German molecular biologist, Heidelberg; Michel Eichelbaum , German pharmacologist, Stuttgart
- 1990 Gustav Victor Rudolf Born , German physician and pharmacologist, London
- 1992 Claus Rainer Bartram , German molecular biologist and human geneticist, Ulm; Stefan HE Kaufmann , German immunologist, Berlin; Ulrich Koszinowski , German immunologist, Ulm
- 1994 Volker ter Meulen , German immunologist, Würzburg; Klaus Rajewsky , German immunologist, Cologne
- 1996 Ulf Rapp , German molecular biologist, Würzburg; Gert Riethmüller , German immunologist, Munich
- 1998 Michael Dieter Kramer , German immunologist, Heidelberg; Markus Michael Simon , German molecular biologist, Freiburg; Reinhard Wallich , German immunologist, Heidelberg
- 2000 Thomas Brandt , German neurologist, Munich; Johannes Dichgans , German neurologist, Tübingen; Hans-Joachim Freund , German neurologist, Düsseldorf
- 2002 Hubert E. Blum , German internist, Freiburg; Dieter Häussinger , German internist, Düsseldorf; Michael Peter Manns , German internist, Hanover
- 2004 Urs A. Meyer , Swiss pharmacologist, Basel; Konrad Sandhoff , German biochemist, Bonn
- 2006 Karl Zilles , German neurologist, Jülich
- 2008 Werner Seeger , German pulmonologist, Giessen
- 2010 Hanns Hatt , German biologist and physician, Bochum
- 2012 Michael Hecker , German microbiologist, Greifswald; Florian Holsboer , German-Swiss chemist and physician, Munich
- 2014 Rupert Handgretinger , Tübingen, and Thomas Klingebiel , Frankfurt am Main, German pediatric oncologists
- 2016 Matthias Schwab , Tübingen, clinical pharmacologist with a focus on pharmacogenomics
- 2018 Karin Scharffetter-Kochanek , Ulm, dermatologist and allergologist