The 2013 Louis-Jeantet Prize Winners

THE WINNERS OF THE 2013 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE FOR MEDICINE are the British geneticist, Michael Stratton, director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, and the German biochemists Peter Hegemann, researcher at the Department of Experimental Biophysics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and Georg Nagel, researcher at the Institute Julius-von-Sachs at the Biocenter, University of Wurzburg.

THE PRIZE-WINNERS are conducting fundamental biological research which is expected to be of considerable significance for medicine.

THE AWARD CEREMONY was held on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in Geneva (Switzerland).

The journal EMBO Molecular Medicine will feature special contributions by the prize-winners and The 2013 EMBO Meeting will host the Louis-Jeantet Lectures given by the prize-winners.