Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize is an annual award bestowed by the Paul Ehrlich Foundation (de) since 1952 for research in medicine. It carries a monetary prize of 120,000 Euro. The prize ceremony is traditionally held on the 14th of March, the birthday of Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich, in St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main.

Researchers from countries worldwide are awarded in the following fields of medicine: Immunology, Cancer research, Haematology, Microbiology and experimental and clinical Chemotherapy.

The prize is one of the highest endowed and internationally distinguished awards in medicine that is based in Germany.

List of winners

Some of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize winners have also been awarded the Nobel Prize. ( indicates Nobel Prize recipients):

• 1952
  • Gerhard Eissner (de), Tübingen
  • Wolf-Helmut Wagner (de), Nonnenhorn
• 1953
  • Adolf Butenandt, Munich ¹⁹³⁹
• 1954
  • Ernst Boris Chain, London ¹⁹⁴⁵
• 1956
  • Gerhard Domagk, Elberfeld ¹⁹³⁹
• 1958
  • Richard Johann Kuhn, Heidelberg ¹⁹³⁸
• 1960
  • Felix Haurowitz, Bloomington
• 1961
  • Albert Hewett Coons, Boston
  • Günther Heymann (de), Langen
  • Örjan Ouchterlony, Gothenburg
  • Jacques Oudin (fr), Paris
• 1962
  • Otto Heinrich Warburg, Berlin ¹⁹³¹
• 1963
  • Helmut Holzer, Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Lothar Jaenicke (de), Cologne
  • Detlev Kayser (de), Berlin
  • Tullio Terranova (de), Rome
• 1964
  • Fritz Kauffmann (de; pt), Copenhagen
• 1965
  • Otto Lüderitz (de), Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Léon Le Minor (fr; de), Paris
  • Ida Ørskov, Copenhagen
  • Frits Ørskov (de), Copenhagen
  • Bruce Stocker, Stanford
• 1966
  • Francis Peyton Rous, New York ¹⁹⁶⁶
• 1967
  • Wilhelm Bernhard (de), Villejuif
  • Renato Dulbecco, San Diego ¹⁹⁷⁵
• 1968
  • Walter Thomas James Morgan, London
  • Otto Westphal (de), Montreux
• 1969
  • Hiroshi Nikaido (de), Boston
  • Anne-Marie Staub, Paris
  • Winifred M. Watkins, London
• 1970
  • Ernst Ruska, Berlin ¹⁹⁸⁶
  • Helmut Ruska, Düsseldorf
• 1971
  • Albert Claude, Brussels
  • Keith R. Porter, Boulder
  • Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, Los Angeles
• 1972
  • Denis Parsons Burkitt, London / Uganda
  • Jan Waldenström, Malmö
• 1973
  • Michael Anthony Epstein, Bristol
  • Kimishige Ishizaka, Baltimore
  • Dennis H. Wright, Southampton
• 1974
  • James L. Gowans, Oxford
  • Jacques Miller, Melbourne
• 1975
  • George Bellamy Mackaness, Saranac Lake
  • Avrion Mitchison, London
  • Morten Simonsen (de), Copenhagen
• 1976
  • Georges Barski (de), Villejuif
  • Boris Ephrussi, Gif-sur-Yvette
• 1977
  • Torbjörn Caspersson, Stockholm
  • John B. Gurdon, Cambridge
• 1978
  • Ludwik Gross, New York
  • Werner Schäfer (de; pt), Tübingen
• 1979
  • Arnold Graffi, Berlin
  • Otto Mühlbock (de), Amsterdam
  • Wallace P. Rowe, Bethesda
• 1980
  • Akiba Tomoichirō (de), Saitama
  • Hamao Umezawa, Tokyo
• 1981
  • Stanley Falkow, Seattle
  • Susumu Mitsuhashi (de), Maebashi
• 1982
  • Niels Kaj Jerne, Castillon-du-Gard ¹⁹⁸⁶
• 1983
  • Peter C. Doherty, Canberra ¹⁹⁹⁶
  • Michael Potter, Bethesda
  • Rolf Zinkernagel, Zürich ¹⁹⁹⁶
• 1984
  • Piet Borst, Amsterdam
  • George A. M. Cross, New York
• 1985
  • Ernest Bueding (de), Baltimore
  • Louis H. Miller (de), Bethesda
  • Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig, New York University
• 1986
  • Abner L. Notkins, Bethesda
• 1987
  • Jean-François Borel, Basel
  • Hugh O'Neill McDevitt, Stanford
  • Felix Milgrom, Buffalo
• 1988
  • Peter K. Vogt, Los Angeles
• 1989
  • Stuart A. Aaronson, Bethesda
  • Russell F. Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
  • Thomas Graf, Heidelberg
• 1990
  • R. John Collier, Boston
  • Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1991
  • Rino Rappuoli, Siena
  • Michio Ui (de), Tokyo
• 1992
  • Manfred Eigen, Göttingen ¹⁹⁶⁷
• 1993
  • Philippa Marrack, Denver
  • John W. Kappler, Denver
  • Harald von Boehmer, Basel
• 1994
  • Peter M. Howley, Boston
  • Harald zur Hausen, Heidelberg ²⁰⁰⁸
• 1995
  • Stanley Prusiner, San Francisco ¹⁹⁹⁷
• 1996
  • Pamela J. Bjorkman, Pasadena
  • Hans-Georg Rammensee, Heidelberg
  • Jack L. Strominger, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1997
  • Barry Marshall, Perth, Western Australia ²⁰⁰⁵
  • John Robin Warren, Perth, Western Australia ²⁰⁰⁵
• 1998
  • David P. Lane, Dundee
  • Arnold J. Levine, Princeton University
  • Bert Vogelstein, Baltimore
• 1999
  • Robert Charles Gallo, Baltimore
• 2000
  • H. Robert Horvitz, Cambridge, Massachusetts ²⁰⁰²
  • John F. R. Kerr, Brisbane
• 2001
  • Stephen C. Harrison, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Michael G. Rossmann, West Lafayette
• 2002
  • Craig Venter, Rockville
• 2003
  • Richard A. Lerner, La Jolla
  • Peter G. Schultz, La Jolla
• 2004
  • Tak Wah Mak, University of Toronto
  • Mark M. Davis, Stanford University
• 2005
  • Ian Wilmut, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
• 2006
  • Craig Mello, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts ²⁰⁰⁶
  • Andrew Z. Fire, Stanford University ²⁰⁰⁶
• 2007
  • Ada Yonath, Biochemist, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel ²⁰⁰⁹
  • Harry Noller, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
• 2008
  • Tim Mosmann (de), University of Rochester
• 2009
  • Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco ²⁰⁰⁹
  • Carol W. Greider, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ²⁰⁰⁹
• 2010
  • Charles Dinarello, University of Colorado Denver
• 2011
  • Cesare Montecucco, University of Padua
• 2012
  • Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco
• 2013
  • Mary-Claire King, University of Washington, Seattle
• 2014
  • Michael Reth (de), University of Freiburg
• 2015
  • James P. Allison, University of Texas, Houston ²⁰¹⁸
  • Carl H. June, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• 2016
  • Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and Umeå University ²⁰²⁰
  • Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley ²⁰²⁰
• 2017
  • Yuan Chang, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
  • Patrick S. Moore, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
• 2018
  • Anthony Cerami, Araim Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, New York State
  • David Wallach, The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot
• 2019
  • Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute, Munich
  • Arthur L. Horwich, Yale School of Medicine
• 2020
  • Shimon Sakaguchi, Osaka University, Japan ²⁰²⁵
• 2021
  • Michael R. Silverman, Emeritus Agouron Institute in La Jolla
  • Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• 2022
  • Katalin Karikó, University of Pennsylvania ²⁰²³
  • Özlem Türeci, BioNTech in Mainz (Germany) and
  • Uğur Şahin, BioNTech in Mainz (Germany)
• 2023
  • Frederick W. Alt, Harvard Medical School
  • David G. Schatz (de), Yale Medical School
• 2024
  • Dennis Kasper, Harvard Medical School
• 2025
  • Andrea Ablasser, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Glen Barber (de), Ohio State University
  • Zhijian "James" Chen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• 2026
  • Davor Solter, Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany
  • Azim Surani, University of Cambridge, UK

See also

• Ludwig Darmstaedter
• List of medicine awards