The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize is given every year since 1952 for investigations in medicine. The prize carries a prize money of 100.000 Euro. The prize awarding ceremony is traditionally on March 14, the birthday of Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...

, in the St. Pauls-Church, Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

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Awarded are researchers from worldwide in medicine-sections, in which Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...

 worked. Especially this are 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...

, Cancer Research

Cancer research

Cancer research is basic research into cancer in order to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatments and cure....

, Haematology, Microbiology

Microbiology

Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes...

 and experimental und clinical Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....

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The prize is given from the Paul-Ehrlich-Stiftung and belongs to the highest endowed and international most distinguished awards in medicine in Germany.

Many of the prizewinners were later Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 winners.

Prizewinners 1952 - 2003

• 1952
  • Gerhard Eißner, Tübingen
  • Wolf -H. Wagner, Nonnenhorn
• 1953
  • Adolf Butenandt
    Adolf Butenandt
    Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a German biochemist and member of the Nazi party. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War...
    
    , München
• 1954
  • Sir Ernst Boris Chain
    Ernst Boris Chain
    Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.-Biography:...
    
    , London
• 1956
  • Gerhard Domagk
    Gerhard Domagk
    Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine – the first commercially available antibiotic – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the...
    
    , Elberfeld
• 1958
  • Richard Johann Kuhn
    Richard Kuhn
    Richard Kuhn was an Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel laureate, and Nazi collaborator.-Early life:Kuhn was born in Vienna, Austria where he attended grammar school and high school. His interest in chemistry surfaced early; however he had many interests and decided late to study chemistry...
    
    , Heidelberg
• 1960
  • Felix Haurowith, Bloomington
• 1961
  • Albert H. Coons, Boston
  • Günther Heymann, Langen
  • Otto E. Ouchterlony, Göteborg
  • Jacques Oudin, Paris
• 1962
  • Otto Heinrich Warburg
    Otto Heinrich Warburg
    Otto Heinrich Warburg , son of physicist Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan during the First World War and won the Iron Cross for bravery. Warburg was one of the twentieth century's leading biochemists...
    
    , Berlin
• 1963
  • Helmut Holzer, Freiburg
  • Lothar Jaenicke, Köln
  • Detlev Kayser, Berlin
  • Tullio Terranova, Rom
• 1964
  • Fritz Kauffmann, Kopenhagen
• 1965
  • Otto Lüderitz, Freiburg
  • Léon Le Minor, Paris
  • Ida Orskov, Kopenhagen
  • Fritz Orskov, Kopenhagen
  • B.A.D. Stocker, Stanford
• 1966
  • Francis Peyton Rous
    Francis Peyton Rous
    Peyton Rous born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1879 and received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer...
    
    , New York
• 1967
  • Wilhelm Bernhard, Villejuif
  • Renato Dulbecco
    Renato Dulbecco
    Renato Dulbecco is an Italian virologist who won a 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on reverse transcriptase. In 1973 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Theodore Puck and Harry Eagle. Dulbecco was the recipient of the Selman A...
    
    , San Diego
• 1968
  • Walter T. J. Morgan, London
  • Otto Westphal, Montreux
• 1969
  • Hiroshi Nikaido, Boston
  • Anne-Marie Staub, Paris
  • Winifred M. Watkins, London
• 1970
  • Ernst Ruska
    Ernst Ruska
    Ernst August Friedrich Ruska was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.Ruska was born in Heidelberg...
    
    , Berlin
  • Helmut Ruska
    Helmut Ruska
    Helmut Ruska was a German physician and biologist from Heidelberg. After earning his medical degree, he spent several years working as a physician at hospitals in Heidelberg and Berlin...
    
    , Düsseldorf
• 1971
  • Albert Claude
    Albert Claude
    Albert Claude was a Belgian biologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. He studied engineering, and then medicine...
    
    , Brussels
  • Keith R. Porter
    Keith R. Porter
    Keith Roberts Porter was a Canadian cell biologist. He did pioneering biology research using electron microscopy of cells , such as work on the 9 + 2 microtubule structure in the axoneme of cilia. Porter also contributed to the development of other experimental methods for cell culture and nuclear...
    
    , Boulder
  • Fritiof Sjöstrand, Los Angeles
• 1972
  • Denis Parsons Burkitt
    Denis Parsons Burkitt
    Denis Parsons Burkitt , surgeon, was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was the son of James Parsons Burkitt. Aged eleven he lost his right eye in an accident. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen and Dean Close School, England...
    
    , London / Uganda
  • Jan Waldenström, Malmö
• 1973
  • Sir Michael Anthony Epstein, Bristol
  • Kazuhiro Ishizaka, Baltimore
  • Dennis H. Wright, Southampton
• 1974
  • James L. Gowans, Oxford
  • Jacques Miller
    Jacques Miller
    Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller AC FRS is a distinguished research scientist. He is famous for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes and their function.-Early life:Miller was born on 2 April 1931,...
    
    , Melbourne
• 1975
  • George B. Mackaness, Saranac Lake
  • Avrion Mitchison
    Avrion Mitchison
    The Honourable Avrion "Av" Mitchison FRS is a British zoologist and immunologist.- Biography :Mitchison was born in 1928, the son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison and his wife, the writer Naomi . His uncle was the biologist J.B.S...
    
    , London
  • Morten Simonsen, Kopenhagen
• 1976
  • Georges Barski, Villejuif
  • Boris Ephrussi, Gif-sur Yvette
• 1977
  • Torbjörn Caspersson, Stockholm
  • John B. Gurdon, Cambridge
• 1978
  • Ludwik Gross, New York
  • Werner Schäfer, Tübingen
• 1979
  • Arnold Graffi
    Arnold Graffi
    Arnold Graffi was a pioneering German doctor in the area of experimental cancer research.Graffi was born in the Saxon town of Bistritz in Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary. He studied medicine at Marburg, Leipzig, and Tübingen before receiving his doctorate at the Charité in Berlin...
    
    , Berlin
  • Otto Mühlbock, Amsterdam
  • Wallace P. Rowe, Bethesda
• 1980
  • Akiba Tomoichirō, Saitama
  • Hamao Umezawa, Tokyo
• 1981
  • Stanley Falkow
    Stanley Falkow
    Stanley Falkow, PhD, is microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is sometimes referred to as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, which is the study of how infectious microbes and host cells interact to cause disease at...
    
    , Seattle
  • Susumu Mitsuhashi, Gunma-Ken
• 1982
  • Niels Kaj Jerne
    Niels Kaj Jerne
    Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS was a Danish immunologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984. The citation read "For theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"....
    
    , Castillon du Gard
• 1983
  • Peter C. Doherty, Canberra
  • Michael Potter, Bethesda
  • Rolf Zinkernagel, Zürich
• 1984
  • Piet Borst, Amsterdam
  • George A. M. Cross, New York
• 1985
  • Ernest Bueding, Baltimore
  • Louis H. Miller, Bethesda
  • Ruth Sonntag-Nussenzweig, New York
• 1986
  • Abner L. Notkins, Bethesda
• 1987
  • Jean F. Borel, Basel
  • Hugh O. McDevitt, Stanford
  • Felix Milgrom, Buffalo
• 1988
  • Peter K. Vogt, Los Angeles
• 1989
  • Stuart A. Aaronson
    Stuart A. Aaronson
    Stuart A. Aaronson, M.D. , is an American author and internationally recognized cancer biologist. He has authored more than 500 publications and holds over 50 patents, and is currently the Jane B. and Jack R...
    
    , Bethesda
  • Russell F. Doolittle
    Russell Doolittle
    Russell F. Doolittle is an American biochemist at the University of California, San Diego with focus in structure and evolution of proteins. Born in Connecticut, he earned a B.A. in Biology from Wesleyan University in 1952, and an M.A. in Education from Trinity College in 1957. He earned his Ph.D...
    
    , La Jolla
  • Thomas Graf, Heidelberg
• 1990
  • R. John Collier, Boston
  • Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr., Cambridge (Massachusetts)
• 1991
  • Rino Rappuoli, Siena
  • Michio Ui, Tokyo
• 1992
  • Manfred Eigen
    Manfred Eigen
    Manfred Eigen is a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.-Career:...
    
    , Göttingen
    Göttingen
    Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...
    
    
• 1993
  • Philippa Marrack
    Philippa Marrack
    Philippa "Pippa" Marrack FRS is an English biologist, based in the United States, best-known for her research into T cell development, T cell apoptosis and survival, adjuvants, autoimmune disease, and for identifying superantigens, the mechanism behind toxic shock syndrome. She collaborates with...
    
    , Denver
  • John W. Kappler, Denver
  • 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...
    
    , Basel
• 1994
  • Peter Howly, Boston
  • Harald zur Hausen
    Harald zur Hausen
    Harald zur Hausen is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008.-Biography:Zur Hausen was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, went to...
    
    , Heidelberg
    Heidelberg
    -Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
    
    
• 1995
  • Stanley Prusiner, San Francisco
• 1996
  • Pamela J. Bjorkman
    Pamela J. Bjorkman
    Pamela J. Bjorkman is an American biochemist. She is the Max Delbrück Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology , Adjunct Professor of biochemistry at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
    
    , Pasadena
  • Hans-Georg Rammensee, Heidelberg
    Heidelberg
    -Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
    
    
  • Jack L. Strominger, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
• 1997
  • Barry Marshall
    Barry Marshall
    Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall is well-known for proving that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA...
    
    , Perth, Western Australia
  • John Robin Warren, Perth, Western Australia
• 1998
  • 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...
    
    , Dundee, UK
  • Arnold J. Levine
    Arnold J. Levine
    Arnold J. Levine, is a United States Molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1998 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry and was thefirst recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research in 2001 for his discovery of the tumor suppressor protein p53...
    
    , Princeton
  • Bert Vogelstein
    Bert Vogelstein
    Bert Vogelstein is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins University. He clarified the role of the gene p53, which repairs DNA in dividing cells and destroys the cell if its DNA cannot be repaired. Damaged p53 is responsible for half of all cancers...
    
    , Baltimore
    Baltimore
    Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
    
    
• 1999
  • Robert Charles Gallo
    Robert Gallo
    Robert Charles Gallo is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus , the infectious agent responsible for the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , and he has been a major contributor to subsequent HIV research.Gallo is the...
    
    , Baltimore
• 2000
  • H. Robert Horvitz
    H. Robert Horvitz
    Howard Robert Horvitz is an American biologist best known for his research on the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.-Life:Horvitz did his undergraduate studies at MIT in 1968, where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi...
    
    , Cambridge (Massachusetts)
  • John F. R. Kerr, Brisbane, Australia
• 2001
  • Stephen C. Harrison, Cambridge, USA
  • Michael G. Rossmann, West Lafayette, USA
• 2002
  • Craig Venter
    Craig Venter
    John Craig Venter is an American biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and for his role in creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J...
    
    , Rockville, USA
• 2003
  • Richard A. Lerner, La Jolla
  • Peter G. Schultz, La Jolla

2004

• Tak Wah Mak
  Tak Wah Mak
  Tak Wah Mak, OC OOnt FRS FRSC is an award-winning Canadian researcher who has worked in a variety of areas including biochemistry, immunology, and cancer genetics...
  
  , University of Toronto
  University of Toronto
  The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
  
  , Canada
• Mark M. Davis, Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  , USA

For investigations of T-cell-receptors.

2005

• Ian Wilmut
  Ian Wilmut
  Sir Ian Wilmut, OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE is an English embryologist and is currently Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic...
  
  , Roslin-Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, -- „Father“ of Dolly
  Dolly
  Dolly may refer to one of the following:*Camera dolly, platform that enables a movie or video camera to move during shots*Dolly , a portable anvil*Dolly , for towing behind a vehicle...
  
  

For his experiments of cloning mammalians.

2006

• Craig Mello
  Craig Mello
  Craig Cameron Mello is a Portuguese-American biologist and Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference...
  
  , Biochemist
  Biochemist
  Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...
  
  , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, USA.
• Andrew Z. Fire, Biologist
  Biologist
  A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
  
  , School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA.

For the investigations of RNA interference

RNA interference

RNA interference is a process within living cells that moderates the activity of their genes. Historically, it was known by other names, including co-suppression, post transcriptional gene silencing , and quelling. Only after these apparently unrelated processes were fully understood did it become...

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2007

• Ada Yonath
  Ada Yonath
  Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2009, she received the Nobel...
  
  , Biochemist
  Biochemist
  Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...
  
  , Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
• Harry Noller, Biochemist
  Biochemist
  Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...
  
  , Center for Molecular Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

For their achievements respecting structure and function of Ribosome

Ribosome

A ribosome is a component of cells that assembles the twenty specific amino acid molecules to form the particular protein molecule determined by the nucleotide sequence of an RNA molecule....

s.

2008

• Tim Mosmann, Immunologist, University of Rochester
  University of Rochester
  The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...
  
  , N.Y.

For his achievements in the discovery of Th1- and Th2-cells.

2009

• 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...
  
  , Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
  University of California, San Francisco
  The University of California, San Francisco is one of the world's leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education. UCSF's medical, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, and graduate schools are among the top health science professional schools in the world...
  
  
• Carol W. Greider
  Carol W. Greider
  Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider is an American molecular biologist. She is Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. She discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, when she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of...
  
  , Department of Molecular biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University
  Johns Hopkins University
  The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
  
  , Baltimore
  Baltimore
  Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
  
  

For their achievements in the discovery of Telomer

Telomer

The word telomer has two distinct, yet related meanings.*Its original meaning is in polymer science, when telomerization results in an extremely small polymer—one whose degree of polymerization is generally between 2 and 5....

s and Telomerase

Telomerase

Telomerase is an enzyme that adds DNA sequence repeats to the 3' end of DNA strands in the telomere regions, which are found at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. This region of repeated nucleotide called telomeres contains non-coding DNA material and prevents constant loss of important DNA from...

.

2010

• Charles Dinarello, 66, School of Medicine, University of Colorado
  University of Colorado Denver
  The University of Colorado Denver, shortened as CU Denver, UC Denver, or UCD, is a public university in the United States state of Colorado. It is one of three schools of the University of Colorado system. The university has two campuses — one in downtown Denver at the Auraria Campus, and the other...
  
   in Denver, USA.

For his outstanding achievements in the field of Cytokines.

2011

• Cesare Montecucco, 62, Department of Biomedical Research at the University of Padua
  University of Padua
  The University of Padua is a premier Italian university located in the city of Padua, Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 as a school of law and was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe. It is among the earliest universities of the world and the second...
  
  , Italy.

For his contribution to research in the field of bacterial diseases, including tetanus, botulism,
anthrax and Helicobacter pylori associated diseases.

External links

• Paul-Ehrlich-Stiftung.de