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22.01.2019The 2019 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Luigi Naldini, Director of the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy and Professor at the San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy and to Botond Roska, a founding director of the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) in Switzerland.
23.01.2018The 2018 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine is awarded to CHRISTER BETSHOLTZ, Director of the Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre based at Karolinska Institute, and Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, and to the immunologist ANTONIO LANZAVECCHIA, Director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Switzerland.
24.01.2017The 2017 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine is awarded to Silvia Arber, Professor of Neurobiology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland and senior group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) in Basel, Switzerland, and to the immunologist Caetano Reis e Sousa, senior group leader at The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom.
19.01.2016The 2016 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine is awarded to Andrea Ballabio, founder and director of the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Italy, and to the biochemist John Diffley, associate research director at the Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom.
20.01.2015The 2015 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine is awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Head of the Department Regulation in Infection Biology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany and Guest Professor at the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden, and to Rudolf Zechner, Professor of Biochemistry, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Austria.