The Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine is awarded annually (starting in 1986) by the Louis-Jeantet Foundation

Louis-Jeantet Foundation

The was set up in Geneva in 1982 according to the wish of the Geneva-resident French businessman Louis Jeantet, having been endowed with his fortune upon his death from cancer in 1981. The Foundation commenced activities in 1983....

 to biomedical researchers in Europe; the awards are made each April. The aim of the prize is both to honor its recipients and to finance their research.

The particular research domains in which prizes have been awarded are physiology

Physiology

Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

, biophysics

Biophysics

Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that uses the methods of physical science to study biological systems. Studies included under the branches of biophysics span all levels of biological organization, from the molecular scale to whole organisms and ecosystems...

, structural biology

Structural biology

Structural biology is a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the molecular structure of biological macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids, how they acquire the structures they have, and how alterations in their structures affect their function...

, biochemistry

Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes in living organisms, including, but not limited to, living matter. Biochemistry governs all living organisms and living processes...

, cellular and molecular biology

Molecular biology

Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...

, developmental biology

Developmental biology

Developmental biology is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop. Modern developmental biology studies the genetic control of cell growth, differentiation and "morphogenesis", which is the process that gives rise to tissues, organs and anatomy.- Related fields of study...

 and genetics

Genetics

Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

; prize-winners have worked in immunology

Immunology

Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

, virology

Virology

Virology is the study of viruses and virus-like agents: their structure, classification and evolution, their ways to infect and exploit cells for virus reproduction, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use in research and therapy...

, bacteriology

Bacteriology

Bacteriology is the study of bacteria. This subdivision of microbiology involves the identification, classification, and characterization of bacterial species...

, neurobiology, clinical epidemiology

Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of health-event, health-characteristic, or health-determinant patterns in a population. It is the cornerstone method of public health research, and helps inform policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive...

 and structural biochemistry

Protein structure

Proteins are an important class of biological macromolecules present in all organisms. Proteins are polymers of amino acids. Classified by their physical size, proteins are nanoparticles . Each protein polymer – also known as a polypeptide – consists of a sequence formed from 20 possible L-α-amino...

.

The Prize is endowed with CHF1.4m. The sum available to each prize-winner amounts to CHF700’000, of which CHF600’000 are to be used for financing ongoing research and CHF100’000 are given to the researcher personally.

Winners of the Prize

List of winners:

1986	Luc Montagnier Luc Montagnier Luc Antoine Montagnier is a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus... , Michael Berridge Michael Berridge Sir Michael John Berridge, FRS FMedSci is a Rhodesian-born British physiologist and biochemist. He is best known for his work on cellular transmembrane signalling, in particular the discovery that inositol trisphosphate acts as a second messenger, linking events at the plasma membrane with the... , Désiré Collen Désiré Collen Désiré Collen is a Belgian physician and chemist. He was born in Sint-Truiden, Belgium.-Education:He graduated as an M.D...
1987	Sydney Brenner Sydney Brenner Sydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H... , Walter Gehring, Dominique Stehelin
1988	Rolf Zinkernagel, John J. Skehel, Bert Sakmann Bert Sakmann -External links:*...
1989	Roberto Poljak, Walter Schaffner, Greg Winter Greg Winter Sir Gregory Winter FRS is a British pioneer of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. He invented techniques to both humanise and, later, to fully humanise using phage display, antibodies for therapeutic uses...
1990	Nicole Le Douarin, Harald von Boehmer Harald von Boehmer Harald von Boehmer is a German/Swiss immunologist best known for his work on T lymphocytes.He obtained an M.D. from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a Ph.D. from Melbourne University, Australia... , Gottfried Schatz Gottfried Schatz Gottfried Schatz is a Swiss - Austrian biochemist. He played a leading role in elucidating the biogenesis of mitochondria and was a co-discoverer of mitochondrial DNA.- Life and career :...
1991	Pierre Chambon, Frank Grosveld Frank Grosveld Professor Frank Grosveld FRS is a distinguished molecular biologist whose research interests are in the regulation of transcription during development with a particular emphasis on mammalian erythroid differentiation... , Hugh Pelham
1992	Paul Nurse Paul Nurse Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, PRS is a British geneticist and cell biologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R... , Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B... , Alain Townsend
1993	Jean-Pierre Changeux Jean-Pierre Changeux Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins , to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions... , Richard Henderson Richard Henderson (molecular biologist) Richard Henderson FRS is a Scottish molecular biologist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules.-Career:... , Kurt Wüthrich Kurt Wüthrich Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel Chemistry laureate.-Biography:Born in Aarberg, Switzerland, Wüthrich was educated in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the University of Berne before pursuing his Ph.D. under the direction of Silvio Fallab at the University of Basel, awarded in 1964...
1994	Thierry Boon Thierry Boon Thierry Boon is a Belgian scientist, Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Branch in and professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain... , Jan Holmgren, Philippe Sansonetti Philippe Sansonetti Philippe J. Sansonetti, Mississippi, Maryland, is a microbiologist, Professor at the Pasteur Institute and the Collège de France in Paris...
1995	Dirk Bootsma and Jan Hoeijmakers, Peter Goodfellow Peter Goodfellow Peter Neville Goodfellow FRS is a British geneticist, former Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge 1992-1996. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992....  and Robin Lovell-Badge, Peter Gruss Peter Gruss Peter Gruss is a German developmental biologist, and the current president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft...
1996	Björn Dahlbäck, Ulrich K. Laemmli Ulrich K. Laemmli Ulrich K. Laemmli is a Professor in the biochemistry and molecular biology departments at University of Geneva. He is known for the refinement of SDS-PAGE, a widely-used method for separating proteins based on their electrophoretic mobility. His paper describing the method is among the most cited... , Nigel Unwin Nigel Unwin Nigel Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin FRS is a British neuroscientist, Emeritus Scientist, and was Joint Head of Neurobiology Division, Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 2003 until 2008.-Life:...
1997	Philip Cohen Philip Cohen Sir Philip Cohen FRS FRSE is a British researcher, academic and Royal Medal winner. During the 1990s he was Britain's third most cited professor and has been described by Professor Garry Taylor of the University of St Andrews as "one of the world’s top scientists"... , Kim Nasmyth Kim Nasmyth Professor Kim Nasmyth FRS is the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry . Nasmyth was formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria and the Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford... , Richard Peto Richard Peto Sir Richard Peto FRS is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University....
1998	Denis Duboule Denis Duboule Denis Duboule is a Swiss-French biologist. He has notably worked on the Hox genes involved in development of limbs.- Biography :Duboule obtained a PhD from University of Geneva in 1984.... , Walter Keller Walter Keller Walter Keller is a mathematician, physicist, researcher, designer, and inventor. He designed and holds the patent on the first implantable atrial synchronous heart pacemaker; he designed a demand circuit critical to the controls of the artificial heart; and he pioneered the first remotely... , Ronald Laskey
1999	Adrian P. Bird, Herbert Jäckle, Jean-Louis Mandel
2000	Konrad Basler, Thomas J. Jentsch, Ueli Schibler
2001	Alain Fischer, Iain W. Mattaj, Alfred Wittinghofer
2002	Timothy J. Richmond, Richard Treisman, Karl Tryggvason
2003	Wolfgang Baumeister, Riitta Hari, Nikos K. Logothetis
2004	Hans Clevers, Alec J. Jeffreys
2005	Alan Hall Alan Hall Berthold Allan Couldwell Hall , commonly known as Allan Hall, was an English professional footballer who played for Park Labour, Doncaster Rovers, Middlesbrough, Bradford City, Lincoln City, Tottenham Hotspur, Blackpool and Gainsborough Trinity.- Football career :Hall began his career at non-League... , Svante Pääbo Svante Pääbo Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm to Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, and his mother, Estonian Karin Pääbo.He earned his PhD from Uppsala...
2006	Kari Alitalo Kari Alitalo Kari Kustaa Alitalo is a Finnish biologist and medical researcher. He is a professor of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. He became famous for his discoveries of several receptor tyrosine kinases and the first growth factor capable to induce lymphangiogenesis: vascular endothelial growth factor C... , Christine Petit
2007	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Stephen C. West Stephen C. West Dr Stephen Craig West, FRS is a British biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in research on recombination and DNA repair. He is known for pioneering studies on homologous recombination, and for defining the links between recombinational repair and genome instability diseases including...
2008	Pascale Cossart Pascale Cossart Pascale Cossart is an award-winning bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and the foremost authority on Listeria monocytogenes, a deadly and common food-borne pathogen responsible for encephalitis, meningitis, bacteremia, gastroenteritis, and other diseases.- Biography :Cossart earned... , Jurg Tschopp
2009	Michael N Hall, Peter J Ratcliffe
2010	Michel Haïssaguerre, Austin Smith
2011	Stefan Jentsch Stefan Jentsch Stefan Jentsch is a German cell biologist. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. He is known for his pioneer work in the field of protein modifications by ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers.- Life :Jentsch studied biology at the Free University... , Edvard Moser Edvard Moser Edvard Moser is a Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist and Founding Director of at the in Trondheim, Norway.May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser were appointed associate professors in psychology and neuroscience at NTNU in 1996, less than one year after their Ph. D defenses... , May-Britt Moser May-Britt Moser May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist and Founding Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway...