Roman, Marga and Mareille Sobek Foundation

Roman, Marga and Mareille Sobek Foundation
Purpose:	Promotion of research into the disease multiple sclerosis and the associated basic research
Chair:	Gernot Kaes (board member) Wilfried Becker Wilfried Gampp
Consist:	since 1994
Founder:	Roman Sobek Marga Sobek Mareille Sobek
Seat:	Renningen

The Roman, Marga and Mareille Sobek Foundation , based in Renningen , Baden-Württemberg , or Sobek Foundation for short, goes back to the Darmstadt textile entrepreneur Roman Sobek, his wife Marga and daughter Mareille. Mareille Sobek died at the age of 21 from the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS) because of the lack of appropriate treatment options. The aim of the foundation, established in 1994, is to promote research into the disease and the associated basic research.

Sobek research award

The Foundation has awarded the Sobek Research Prize since 2000. The award for MS research, with the highest endowment in Europe with 100,000 euros, is given to scientists whose work has provided groundbreaking findings in the field of research into the disease. A year later, the Sobek Young Talent Award was presented for the first time. It is endowed with 10,000 euros, since 2015 with 15,000.

The foundation decides on the award of the prizes on the basis of a candidate proposal from the scientific advisory board, which consists of five MS specialists appointed by the foundation for four years. At the moment (as of early 2016) these are Klaus Toyka (Chairman), Reinhardt Hohlfeld, Martin Schwab, Hartmut Wekerle and Hans-Peter Hartung. The main prize is intended to honor an outstanding overall scientific achievement, while the young scientist's award is intended to honor an outstanding individual achievement by a younger scientist. The award is made in cooperation with the German Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Multiple Sclerosis Disease Action, the state association of the DMSG in Baden-Württemberg eV (AMSEL eV) in the New Palace and the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart . The patron is Ursula Späth and the Baden-Württemberg Minister for Science, Research and Art is responsible for the award .

Award winners

year	Research award	Young Talent Award
2000	Hans Lassmann , Institute for Brain Research at the University of Vienna	Not awarded
2001	Klaus-Armin Nave , Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen	Mathias E. Mäurer, Neurological University Clinic Würzburg Martin Kerschensteiner, Institute for Brain Research at the University of Zurich
2002	Alastair Compston , Department of Neurology at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge	Ralf Linker, Neurological University Clinic Würzburg Christian Bien, University Clinic Bonn
2003	Avraham Ben-Nun , Weizmann Institute, Rehovot / Israel Christopher Linington , University of Aberdeen	Oliver Neuhaus, University of Düsseldorf Jens Schmidt, University of Würzburg / National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (Maryland)
2004	Reinhard Hohlfeld , Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology at the University of Munich / Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried	Burkhard Becher , University of Zurich Heinz Wiendl, University of Tübingen
2005	Jens Frahm , Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen David Miller , Institute of Neurology, London	Ricarda Diehm , University of Göttingen Christine Stadelmann-Nessler, University of Göttingen Sabine Cepok, Neurological University Clinic Düsseldorf
2006	Volker Dietz , Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich	Not awarded
2007	Michael Sendtner , Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, University Hospital of the University of Würzburg	Florence Bareyre, Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, LMU Munich Clinic, Großhadern
2008	Christian Confavreux , Université de Lyon	Thomas Korn, TU Munich
2009	Lars Fugger , University of Oxford	Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried
2010	Catherine Lubetzki , Hopital de la Salpetrière, Paris Rudolf Martini , Section for Experimental Developmental Neurobiology of the Neurological Clinic of the University of Würzburg	Sven Meuth, University of Münster
2011	Ralf Gold , Neurological Clinic of the Ruhr University Bochum	Martin Weber, Department of Neurology at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich
2012	Christian Münz , Institute for Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich	Luisa Klotz, University Hospital Münster
2013	Bernhard Hemmer , Department of Neurology at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich	Francesca Odoardi, Department of Immunology at the Institute for Multiple Sclerosis Research at the University Medical Center Göttingen
2014	Marco Prinz , Institute for Neuropathology at the University Medical Center Freiburg	Stefan Bittner, Institute for Multiple Sclerosis Research at the Münster University Hospital
2015	Heinz Wiendl , Clinic for General Neurology at the Münster University Clinic	Christian Geis, University Hospital Jena Clemens Warnke, University Hospital Düsseldorf
2016	Ari Waismann , Institute for Molecular Medicine at the University of Mainz	Veit Rothhammer, Department of Neurology at Klinikum rd Isar of the Technical University of Munich
2017	Ludwig Kappos , Neurological University Clinic, University Hospital Basel	Anneli Peters, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried
2018	Josep Dalmau , Neurological University Clinic, University Hospital Basel	Aiden Haghikia Nicholas Schwab
2019	Burkhard Becher , University of Zurich	Sarah-Christin Staroßom, Berlin Simon Hametner, Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ralf Gold receives the highly endowed Sobek Research Award 2011 , German Society for Neurology, December 8, 2011
2. ^ Sobek research award winners 2010 have been announced , German Multiple Sclerosis Society - Federal Association (DMSG), December 2, 2010
3. ^ AMSEL eV - regional association of the DMSG: The Sobek Foundation. Retrieved May 3, 2018 . 
4. ^ The Sobek Foundation , amsel.de, December 13, 2002; last accessed on May 3, 2018.
5. ↑ DMSG Bundesverband Ev: Auslobung the Sobek Research Awards: 115,000 euros for excellent Multiple Sclerosis Research. In: dmsg.de. April 10, 2016, accessed November 25, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Pioneering multiple sclerosis research: The 2016 Sobek award winners have been determined ( memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , German Multiple Sclerosis Society - Federal Association (DMSG), December 3, 2013 
7. ↑ Freiburg neuropathologist receives prestigious award for multiple sclerosis research. Press release from December 1, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
8. ↑ Sobek Foundation honors internationally outstanding MS researchers. In: dmsg.de. December 11, 2015, accessed May 3, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Sobek Research Awards 2016 on Multiple Sclerosis. In: amsel.de. November 25, 2016, accessed May 3, 2018 . 
10. ↑ News from multiple sclerosis research. In: amsel.de. November 9, 2017, accessed May 3, 2018 . 
11. ↑ AMSEL eV - Regional Association of the DMSG: Awarding of the Sobek Research Awards 2018 . In: Multiple Sclerosis News - AMSEL . November 7, 2018 ( amsel.de [accessed November 10, 2018]).
12. ↑ Sobek Foundation honors outstanding scientists. In: lifepr.de. AMSEL eV, November 29, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019 . 

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