The Otto-Naegeli-Preis is a Swiss award for medical research that is awarded every two years.[1] It is one of the most prestigious Swiss medical awards and is given with an award sum of 200,000 Swiss Francs. It was established in 1960 and is named after Otto Naegeli, a former professor of internal medicine at the University of Zurich.[1]

Otto-Naegeli-Preis
CountrySwitzerland
Presented byBonizzi-Theler-Foundation
Reward(s)Prize money of 200,000 CHF, approx. US$200,000 (2018)
First awarded1960; 64 years ago (1960)
Websitewww.otto-naegeli-preis.ch

Awardees edit

The Awardees of the prize are the following:[2]

Year Awardee Field
2022 Nicolas Thomä Structural Biology[3]
2020 Christian Lüscher Neurobiology & Neurology
2018 Nenad Ban Structural Molecular Biology
2016 Markus G. Manz [de] Hematology and Oncology
2016 Adrian F. Ochsenbein Clinical and Experimental Oncology
2014 Silvia Arber Neurobiology
2012 Lars E. French Dermatology
2012 Markus H. Heim Hepatology/Innate Immunity
2010 Ruedi Aebersold Systems biology/proteomics
2010 Amos Bairoch Bioinformatics/proteomics
2008 Pierre-Alain Clavien Abdominal surgery/transplantation
2006 Susan Gasser Molecular biology/epigenetics
2004 Ernst Hafen [de] Developmental biology/systems biology
2002 Walter Wahli Cell biology/energy homeostases
2000 Susanne Suter [fr] Paediatrics/Cystic fibrosis
1998 Hans Hengartner [de] Experimental immunology/virology
1996 Ueli Schibler Molecular biology/circadian rhythms
1994 Heini Murer [de] Physiology/membrane transport
1992 Heidi Diggelmann Microbiology/retroviruses
1990 Pierre Vassalli Pathology/haematology
1988 Rolf Zinkernagel Experimental immunology/virology
1986 Lelio Orci Endocrinology/cell biology
1984 Werner Straub Internal medicine/metabolism
1983 Jules Angst Psychiatry/depression
1982 Walter J. Gehring Developmental biology/Drosophila
1981 Günter Baumgartner Neurology/neurophysiology
1979 Max L. Birnstiel Molecular biology
1978 E. Rudolf Froesch Endocrinology/insulin
1977 Hugo Studer Internal medicine/thyroid function
1975 Max M. Burger Oncology
1974 Ernst Sorkin Biochemistry/oncology
1973 Hans R. Mühlemann Periodontics
1972 Hugo Aebi Biochemistry/clinical chemistry
1972 Charles Rouiller Morphology/histology
1970 Robert Keller Immunology
1969 Konrad Akert Neurobiology
1967 Albert Renold Biochemistry/endocrinology
1966 Andrea Prader Paediatrics/metabolism
1965 Micheline Bettex-Galland Biochemistry/thrombocytes
1965 Ernst Luescher Biochemistry/thrombocytes
1964 Robert Schwyzer Biochemistry/molecular biology
1962 Gian Töndury Anatomy/locomotor system
1961 Kitty Ponse Zoology/endocrinology
1960 Franz Leuthardt Biochemistry/metabolism

References edit

  1. ^ a b Official Website
  2. ^ "Preistraeger" [prizewinners]. Otto Naegeli Preis (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Nicolas Thomä receives the Otto Naegeli Prize 2022". www.fmi.ch.

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