Prizes and Awards
High honor for pioneers of cancer immunotherapy
Czech Inventor Award for Martina Benešová-Schäfer
2022
ERC Starting Grant for Chong Sun
Takeda Oncology Research Award 2022 to Arlou Kristina Angeles
ERC funding: How to deliver gene therapies to a specific target site?
Honorary doctorate for Michael Baumann
ERC Advanced Grant for Andreas Trumpp
ERC funding: How muscle supports antiviral immunity
2021
Prestigious research prize for the discovery of new liver regeneration mechanisms
German Prize for Cancer Prevention Research awarded for the first time
Andreas von Deimling awarded the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience
Award-winning science: Cancer-promoting metabolic pathways as targets of new therapies
DKFZ Innovation Award presented for the first time
Mahak Singhal awarded the Helmholtz Doctoral Prize 2020
Richtzenhain Prize 2020 for improved breast cancer diagnostics
Beijerick Virology Award awarded to Ralf Bartenschlager
2020
Neurobiologist Hannah Monyer Receives Lautenschläger Research Prize
Two ERC Starting Grants to DKFZ junior scientists
Thomas Grünewald is honored with the Rudolf Virchow Prize 2020
European funding for two research projects with application potential
German Cancer Prize awarded to Andreas Trumpp
Ana Banito awarded for her research on soft tissue sarcomas
2019
Prince Mahidol Award to Ralf Bartenschlager
Award for the further development of cellular immunotherapies to Lukas Bunse
Takeda Oncology Research Award 2019 to Steffen Dietz
Andreas Fischer is honored for his work on the endothelium
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Mark E. Ladd nominated for the German Future Prize
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Leibniz Prize 2019 goes to Hans Reimer Rodewald
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German Cancer Award 2019 goes to Michael Platten
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Tamara Prentzell receives Research Award of the German Tuberous Sclerosis Foundation
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Richtzenhain Preis 2018 geht an Dr. Kristian Pajtler
Nicola Werner Preis 2018 geht an Dr. Julia Butt
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Stefan Pfister
2018
Stefan Pfister receives HMLS Investor Award
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State Research Prize of Baden-Württemberg goes to Andreas Trumpp
Leibniz Prize for Hans-Reimer Rodewald
Marieke Essers receives Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Prize
Ann-Christin Baranski receives the Helmholtz Doctoral Prize 2018
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Takeda Oncology Research Award 2018 to Rocio Sotillo
Erwin-Schrödinger Prize goes to Matthias Eder, Michael Eisenhut, Uwe Haberkorn and Klaus Kopka
Ana Banito, Fabian Erdel and Moritz Mall receive ERC Starting Grant
Gips-Schüle Young Investigator Award goes to Lorenz Adlung
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Hannah Monyer receives Berlin-Brandenburg Academy Prize
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Michael Baumann is honored with the Janeway Gold Medal of the American Radium Society
Hellmut Augustin and Christof Niehrs receive ERC-Advanced Grants
Otto-Schmeil Prize 2018 goes to Simon Haas and Lars Velten
German Cancer Award for Michael Baumann
Ana Martin-Villalba receives ERC-Consolidator Grant
Marieke Essers receives Chica and Heinz Schaller Award
2017
Waltraud-Lewenz-Award 2017 for David Brocks
Richtzenhain-Award goes to the DKTK scientists Susan Kläger and Elham Pishali
Nicola Werner Young Investigator Award 2017 for Daniel Hasche
Gilbert H. Fletcher Society Gold Medal goes to Prof. Michael Baumann
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2016
DKTK Freiburg: Richtzenhain Award goes to Nikolas von Bubnoff and Robert Zeiser
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DKTK Essen/Düsseldorf: Essen Physicians Receive Prize for Best Studies on Carcinogenesis and Cancer Treatment
Wolfgang Schlegel and Jürgen Debus awarded with 2016 Stifterverband Science Prize
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Professor Dr. Andreas von Deimling is awarded with the German Cancer Prize
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2015
Felix Burda Award for Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz and Matthias Kloor
2014
Stefan Hell receives Nobel Prize for Chemistry (to press release)
and Kavli Award for Nanoscience (to press release, in German only)
2013
Medical computer scientist Dr. Lena Maier Hein receives the "Heinz Maier Leibnitz Award" of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Felix Burda Award in the category “Best Prevention Idea” is given to Cornelia Ulrich, Dr. Ulrike Bussas and Clare Abbenhardt of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg
Felix Burda Award in the category “Medicine and Science” goes to Dr. Christian Stock, Dr. Michael Hoffmeister and Professor Hermann Brenner of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
