Awards & Winners

Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

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, in the St. Pauls-Church, Frankfurt. Awarded are researchers from worldwide in medicine-sections, in which Paul Ehrlich worked. Especially this are Immunology, Cancer Research, Haematology, Microbiology and experimental und clinical Chemotherapy. 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 winners.
Date Established : 1952

Check all the winners of Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize presented under Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize since 1952 .


Mary-Claire King

(For her outstanding research achievements in the field of human genetics. She was the first to demonstrate that there is a genetic predisposition for breast cancer.)

Peter Walter

(For his outstanding contributions to research in the field of Cell Biology, especially for the discovery of signal recognizing particles.)

Cesare Montecucco

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

Charles A. Dinarello

(For his outstanding achievements in the field of Cytokines.)

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider

(For their achievements in the discovery of telomeres and telomerase.)

Tim Mosmann

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

Ada Yonath, Harry F. Noller

(For their achievements respecting structure and function of Ribosomes.)

Craig Mello, Andrew Fire

(For the investigations of RNA interference.)

Ian Wilmut

(For his experiments of cloning mammalians.)

Tak Wah Mak, Mark M. Davis

(For investigations of T-cell-receptors.)