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Awards and Honours
2024
In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the understanding of gene regulation by RNA-binding proteins and the identification of RNA-binding proteins, Matthias Hentze will be awarded the Otto Warburg Medal 2025 of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
For his groundbreaking discoveries, Michael Platten is honoured with the “Science Breakthrough of the Year 2024” award by the Falling Walls Foundation
Jan Korbel is appointed Honorary Professor by the Heidelberg University.
Oriana Marques receives an European Hematology Association (EHA) Junior Research Grant
Wolfgang Huber is elected as an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology for his outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.
Oriana Marques receives the Olympia Morata Fellowship of the Heidelberg University.
2020
Robert Prevedel receives ERC Consolidator grant: Development of advanced optical tools for studying cellular mechanics at high spatial and temporal resolution.
Anthony D. Ho continues to be member of the Central Ethics Commission for Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ZES Berlin). He was founding member in 2002.
Martina Muckenthaler becomes member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Peer Bork receives a Honorary Professorship of Heidelberg University
Rohini Kuner becomes member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2018
Jan Korbel becomes third co-director of the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit
Laleh Haghverdi receives a prize from the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung for her outstanding contributions to development of computational tools for understanding and analysis of single-cell transcriptomics data.
Anthony Ho’s oral presentation at the 60th ASH Annual Meeting in San Diego CA, USA, was chosen as one of 12 Best of ASH presentations, out of 3000 presented abstracts, and out of a total of ten thousand submitted abstracts.
Matthias Hentze receives the Ilse & Helmut Wachter Award for his exceptional scientific achievements in the field of molecular medicine. Watch video Tirol TV.
Jan Siemens received ERC Consolidator Grant
Jan Korbel is elected Head of the Genomics section within the F1000 network
Hans-Georg Kräusslich receives the gold medal of Charles University Prague
Matthias Zielonka receives the Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium (UCDC) Training Research Award 2018/2019 from the Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Jan Korbel receives an ERC consolidator grant: MOSAIC aims to unravel the relationship between somatic structural variation mosaicism and aging and disease phenotypes
Kiran Kumar Bali was awarded the Max-von-Frey-Preis by Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft and Astellas Pharma
Rohini Kuner receives the HMLS Investigator Award 2017 for her ongoing efforts to consolidate innovative interdisciplinary research and for her active support and encouragement of young researchers.
Jan Siemens receives the Sir Hans Krebs Prize 2017 from the Society of Friends of the MHH
Hans-Georg Kräusslich is elected fellow of the American Association of Microbiology
Hans-Georg Kräusslich receives the Gregor Johann Mendel medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Jan Siemens receives PHOENIX Pharmacy and Science Prize 2017 for his work on the hypothalamic regulation of body temperature
Rohini Kuner receives the Novartis Award for Therapy-Related Research
Francesca Vinchi receives best scoring abstract award as a Postdoctoral fellow at the European Hematology Association meeting
The Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of Vietnam has granted Anthony D. Ho a medal of honor „For People’s Health“ at the International Conference on Stem Cell Research in Haiphong, Vietnam
Francesca Vinchi receives young investigator fellowship at the European Atherosclerosis Society Meeting
Martina Muckenthaler becomes President Elect of the International BioIron Society IBIS
Francesca Vinchi won the Gunshin Levy award recognizing research, commitment and dedication as young scientist at the 6th International Bioiron Meeting, Hangzhou, China
Ana Rita Da Silva won best poster award at the 6th meeting of the International Bioiron Society, Hangzhou, China
Joana Neves won best poster award at the 6th meeting of the International Bioiron Society, Hangzhou, China
Milene Costa da Silva won best talk award at the 6th meeting of the International Bioiron Society, Hangzhou, China
Francesca Vinchi won best talk award at the 6th meeting of the International Bioiron Society IBIS, Hangzhou, China
Jan Korbel becomes member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Fei Ye is awarded a BMSS (British Mass Spectrometry Society) travel grant to attend the 9th European Summer school Advanced Proteomics in South Tyrol, Italy
Susanne Dittrich receives the ECFS Young Investor Award.
Magnus von Knebel Doeberitz und Matthias Kloor receive the Felix Burda Award for innovative and outstanding research in the field of colon cancer prevention.
Matthias Hentze delivers Weizmann Institute Life Science Colloquium, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Matthias Hentze delivers distinguished Speaker Seminar, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Peer Bork receives an ERC Advanced Investigator grant on strain resolution: microbiomics
Matthias Hentze delivers the Kidson Lecture, QIMR Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
Matthias Hentze delivers the MIT Biology Colloquium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Martina Muckenthaler receives Jack Reeves Prize for most outstanding scientific talk at the XIX Hypoxia Symposium in Lake Louise, Canada.
Matthias Hentze receives the Feodor-Lynen-Medal, German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)
2014
HRCMM Awardee Stephan Singer receives Hella-Bühler-Award for his outstanding work in cancer research.
Matthias Hentze delivers Lennart Philipson Memorial Lecture, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Peer Bork becomes member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Anthony D. Ho is appointed member (for the third term of 4 years each) of the Zentrale Ethik-Kommission für Stammzellforschung of the Federal Ministry of Research and Education and the Federal Ministry of Health of the Federal Republic of Germany
Peer Bork receives Honorary Professorship (University of Wuerzburg)
Rohini Kuner was elected to the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea)
Marcus Mall has been elected to the Board of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society, ECFS
Matthias Hentze delivers the Cesar Milstein Lecture, Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anne-Claude Gavin has been elected member of the EMBO
2013
Edward Lemke and Carsten Schultz win jointly the 2013 MRN (Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region Foundation) Innovation award for their biotech based method “Pro Tag”.
Manuela Simonetti was awarded the “1. Förderpreis für Schmerzforschung” (2013) of the Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft.
Tanmay Bharat has been awarded the Bayer Healthcare Promotionspreis for best doctoral research in the fields of biochemistry or molecular biology
Matthias Hentze becomes member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
A new five-year, EU-funded FP7 project, SyStemAge, coordinated by Anne-Claude Gavin brings together an international network of experts to study ageing in adult stem cells at the systems level.
Matthias Hentze becomes member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cold Spring Harbor Conferences Asia, Suzhou, China
Carsten Schultz received the 2012 Heidelberg Molecular Life Science Award (HMLS award) shared with Prof. Michael Brunner for his contributions to the field of Chemical Biology and its implementation in Heidelberg.
Matthias Hentze becomes chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
Martina Muckenthaler has been appointed committee member of the European Hematology Association (EHA).
Anthony D. Ho has been appointed member to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Paul-Ehrling Institute Langen
Martina Muckenthaler has been appointed member to the ASH (American Society of Hematology) Scientific Committee on Iron and Heme.
Rohini Kuner has become an ERC Advanced Grantee with “Pain Plasticity”. She researches the molecular and cellular basis of structural plasticity and reorganisation in chronic pain.
Matthias Hentze has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant “REM Networks” for exploring the interface between cell metabolism and gene regulation: from mRNA interactomes to REM Networks.
Sven Danckwardt receives Hella-Bühler-Award for his outstanding work in cancer research.
Matthias Hentze was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centenary Institute, Sydney, Australia
Anne-Claude Gavin was appointed to the Allen Institute for Brain Science Cell Networks Advisory Council, Seattle, US
2010
Peer Bork has been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigators Grant ‘Cancerbiome’ for pioneering research into microbial communities associated with cancer.