Wilhelm Vaillant Prize
The Wilhelm Vaillant Prize is a science prize awarded by the Wilhelm Vaillant Foundation to promote medical research.
The prize is awarded to all medical faculties in Germany and all Max Planck institutes with medical work areas. Applicants must be proposed by a third party, personal applications will not be accepted. Applicants must work in Germany and should not be over 40 years of age. The prize was initially endowed with 50,000 DM, today (as of 2015) the prize money is 30,000 euros.
The award is named after the German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, doctor and philanthropist Wilhelm Vaillant .
Award winners
- 1992 Thomas Jentsch for work on the elucidation of the structures and functions of voltage-dependent chloride channels and their role in hereditary diseases, Johann Ruppersberg for work on the electrophysiology and molecular biology of potassium channels in the brain
- 1994 Michael Sendtner for work on neurotrophic factors for motor nerve cells
- 1996 Martin J. Lohse for work on receptors , their molecular mechanisms and their importance for the development and treatment of diseases
- 1998 not awarded
- 2000 Franz-Ulrich Hartl for work on the molecular mechanisms of protein folding in cells
- 2002 not awarded
- 2003 Dirk Busch for work in the field of MHC multimer technologies
- 2005 Jens Claus Brüning for work on the importance of insulin signal transduction in the central nervous system
- 2007 Gunther Hartmann for work on the development of synthetic oligonucleotides
- 2009 Anita Maria Rauch for research on the genetic causes of intellectual disabilities as well as congenital heart defects and short stature
- 2011 Karl Lenhard Rudolph for research on the molecular causes of aging
- 2013 Florian Greten for linking research into fundamental tumor biological relationships with the development of new genetically defined endogenous tumor models
- 2015 Andreas Ladurner for his work on the cellular mechanisms of early detection and repair of damage to human DNA
- 2018 Christian P. Schaaf for his work on the genetic causes of neurological and psychiatric diseases