Prizes and Awards

Each year, our scientists are honored with a number of prestigious prizes, awards, and medals for their achievements in a variety of scientific disciplines. See a selection here.

Prizes and Awards

  • German Cancer Research Center

    Mirco Friedrich Receives the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation Award

    Mirco Julian Friedrich, a physician and cancer researcher at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the HI-STEM* Stem Cell Research Institute, and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD), is being honored for his outstanding research on the aging immune system and the immune response to blood cancer.
  • GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

    Prof. Dr Angelika Brandt to receive the German Ocean Award

    5 November 2026/Kiel. Marine biologist and Senckenberg researcher Prof. Dr Angelika Brandt has been awarded the “Deutscher Meerespreis” (German Ocean Award). GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Prof. Dr Werner Petersen Foundation are thereby honouring her scientific achievements in deep-sea biological research and her seminal contribution to our…
  • Helmholtz Munich

    Eleftheria Zeggini Receives FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027

    Prof. Eleftheria Zeggini has been awarded the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027 for her pioneering contributions to human genomics and the translation of large-scale genetic discoveries into biological and clinical insights, alongside her scientific leadership and sustained commitment to mentoring, equality and inclusion.
  • Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

    North German Science Prize for the DEEP-DV research consortium

    “Chronic viral infections and their long-term consequences are becoming increasingly significant in an ageing society and for vulnerable groups. By pooling scientific expertise and state-of-the-art technologies, we aim to gain a better understanding of persistent viral infections and develop new approaches to prevention and treatment,” says Prof. Nicole Fischer, co-spokesperson…
  • Helmholtz Munich

    Vasilis Ntziachristos Receives Future Insight Prize 2026

    Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos has been awarded the Future Insight Prize 2026 by Merck. The prize recognizes his pioneering contributions to non-invasive health sensing and is endowed with a research grant of €300,000.

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