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The 2022 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to CAROL ROBINSON, Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery at the University of Oxford, UK, and, jointly, to UĞUR ŞAHIN, ÖZLEM TÜRECI, Mainz University and co-founders of BioNTech and KATALIN KARIKÓ, Professor at the University of Szeged, Hungary and senior vice-president of BioNTech, Germany.
26.01.2021The 2021 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Patrick CRAMER, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, and jointly to Jérôme GALON from the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) in Paris, and Ton SCHUMACHER from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.
21.01.2020The 2020 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to ERIN SCHUMAN, director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and jointly to GRAZIELLA PELLEGRINI and MICHELE DE LUCA, from the Centre for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari” in Modena, Italy.
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.