Otto-Naegeli-Preis

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Otto-Naegeli-Preis
CountrySwitzerland
Presented byBonizzi-Theler-Foundation
Reward(s)Prize money of 200,000 CHF, approx. US$ 200,000 (2018)
First awarded1960;62 years ago (1960)
Website www.otto-naegeli-preis.ch

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]

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Awardees

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

YearAwardeeField
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
1992Heidi DiggelmannMicrobiology/retroviruses
1990Pierre VassalliPathology/haematology
1988 Rolf Zinkernagel Experimental immunology/virology
1986 Lelio Orci Endocrinology/cell biology
1984Werner StraubInternal medicine/metabolism
1983Jules AngstPsychiatry/depression
1982Walter J. GehringDevelopmental biology/Drosophila
1981Günter BaumgartnerNeurology/neurophysiology
1979Max L. BirnstielMolecular biology
1978E. Rudolf FroeschEndocrinology/insulin
1977Hugo StuderInternal medicine/thyroid function
1975Max M. BurgerOncology
1974Ernst SorkinBiochemistry/oncology
1973Hans R. MühlemannPeriodontics
1972Hugo AebiBiochemistry/clinical chemistry
1972Charles RouillerMorphology/histology
1970Robert KellerImmunology
1969Konrad AkertNeurobiology
1967 Albert Renold Biochemistry/endocrinology
1966 Andrea Prader Paediatrics/metabolism
1965Micheline Bettex-GallandBiochemistry/thrombocytes
1965Ernst LuescherBiochemistry/thrombocytes
1964Robert SchwyzerBiochemistry/molecular biology
1962Gian TönduryAnatomy/locomotor system
1961 Kitty Ponse Zoology/endocrinology
1960Franz LeuthardtBiochemistry/metabolism

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References

  1. 1 2 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.