List of Recipients

• 2011 Stefan Hell
  Stefan Hell
  Stefan W. Hell is a physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany as well as the head of the department "Optical Nanoscopy" at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.- Life :In 1981 Hell began his studies at the...
  
  
• 2010 Alan Ashworth
  Alan Ashworth
  Alan Ashworth, FRS is a British molecular biologist/ Professor of Molecular Biology, noted for his work on genes involved in cancer susceptibility...
  
  
• 2009 Brian Druker
  Brian Druker
  Brian J. Druker is a physician-scientist at the Oregon Health & Science University. He is the director of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research, and professor of medicine...
  
  
• 2007 Shinya Yamanaka
  Shinya Yamanaka
  is a Japanese physician and adult stem cell researcher. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto University, as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated J...
  
  
• 2006 Elizabeth Blackburn
  Elizabeth Blackburn
  Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS is an Australian-born American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the...
  
  
• 2005 Thomas Tuschl
  Thomas Tuschl
  Thomas Tuschl is a German biochemist and Molecular biologist researching RNA.-Biography:Tuschl was born in Altdorf bei Nürnberg. After graduating in chemistry from Regensburg university Tuschl received his PhD in 1995 from Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen...
  
  
• 2004 Erich A. Nigg
• 2002 Andrew Fire
  Andrew Fire
  Andrew Zachary Fire is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference...
  
  
• 2001 Shoichiro Tsukita
• 2000 Matthias Mann
  Matthias Mann
  Matthias Mann is a scientist in the area of mass spectrometry and proteomics. Born 1959 in Germany he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Yale University where he worked in the group of John Fenn, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize in...
  
  
• 1999 Carl-Henrik Heldin
• 1998 Richard D. Wood
  Richard D. Wood
  Richard D. Wood is an American molecular biologist specializing in research on DNA repair and mutation. He is known for pioneering studies on nucleotide excision repair , particularly for reconstituting the minimum set of proteins involved in this process, identifying proliferating cell nuclear...
  
  
• 1997 Patrick S. Moore
  Patrick S. Moore
  Patrick S. Moore is an American virologist and epidemiologist who co-discovered together with his wife, Yuan Chang, two different human viruses causing the AIDS-related cancer Kaposi's sarcoma and the skin cancer Merkel cell carcinoma...
  
   and Yuan Chang
  Yuan Chang
  Yuan Chang is an American virologist and pathologist who co-discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and Merkel cell polyomavirus, two of the seven known human cancer viruses....
  
  
• 1996 Peter H. Krammer
• 1995 David P. Lane
  David P. Lane
  Sir David Philip Lane FRS, FRSE FRCPath is a British oncologist. He is best known for his work on the p53 tumour suppressor protein. Besides his position at the University of Dundee, he also founded the Cyclacel biotechnology company and is the Chief Scientist of Cancer Research UK.He was made a...
  
  
• 1994 Gert Riethmüller
• 1993 Johannes Gerdes
• 1992 Walter Birchmeier
• 1991 Hans-Georg Rammensee
• 1990 Rainer Storb
• 1989 Peter Herrlich
• 1988 Elisabeth Gateff
• 1987 Mary Osborn
• 1986 Karin Mölling
• 1985 Volker Sturm
• 1984 Lutz Gissmann
• 1982/1983 Holger Kirchner and Volker Schirrmacher
• 1981 Werner W. Franke