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 de: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.

Prizewinners

For investigations of T-cell-receptors.
Research on the structure and function of ribosomes.
For their achievements in the discovery of telomeres and telomerase.
Research in bacterial diseases, including tetanus, botulism, anthrax and Helicobacter pylori associated diseases.
For the discovery of signal recognizing particles.
Demonstrated how the immune system's B cells are activated and induced to produce antibodies.
For cancer Immunotherapy
For work on the programmable Gene Cutter CRISPR-Cas9, part of the bacterial immune system.

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