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2024 Prize
The 2024 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to Dirk GÖRLICH, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, Germany, and to Charles SWANTON, Deputy Clinical Director at the Francis Crick Institute in London, UK.
2023 Prize
The 2023 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to DARIO ALESSI, Director of the MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit at the University of Dundee, UK, and, jointly, to IVAN ĐIKIĆ, Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II at Goethe University Frankfurt, and BRENDA SCHULMAN, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany.
2022 Prize
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.
2021 Prize
The 2021 Louis-Jeantet Prizes are awarded to PATRICK CRAMER, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, and jointly to JEROME 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.
2020 Prize
The 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.
2019 Prize
The 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.
2018 Prize
The 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.
2017 Prize
The 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.
2016 Prize
The 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.
2015 Prize
The 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.
2014 Prize
The 2014 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medecine is awarded to the Italian biochemist Elena Conti and to the French medical doctor and physicist Denis Le Bihan.
2013 Prize
The 2013 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine is awarded to the British geneticist Michael Stratton and to the German biochemists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel.
2012 Prize
The 2012 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine is awarded to the German specialist in systems biology Matthias Mann and to the British biologist Fiona Powrie.
2011 Prize
The 2011 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine is awarded to the German biologist Stefan Jentsch and to the Norwegian neurobiologists Edvard and May-Britt Moser.
2010 Prize
The 2010 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine is awarded to the French cardiologist Michel Haïssaguerre and to the British biologist Austin Smith.
2009 Prize
The 2009 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine is awarded to the Swiss-American biologist Michael N. Hall and to the British doctor and cell biologist Peter J. Ratcliffe.