Mitochondria for the cell are like the lung for humans. They enable cellular respiration and thus produce biochemical energy from absorbed nutrients. Walter Neupert, Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, will today be honored with the Ernst Jung Medal for Medicine in Gold for his life’s work. The Ernst Jung Gold Medal is a symbolic award but will be connected with an amount of 30,000 Euros. Walter Neupert can use this money to support a junior scientist of his choice.
Since 1990, the Jung Foundation for Science and Research in Hamburg awards the Ernst Jung Gold Medal for great achievements which have already been made. It honours exceptional contributions to medical progress and the entire lifetime achievement of a scientist in research and clinical work.
Amelie Heuer-Jungemann, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, is awarded this year's Dozentenpreis of the Chemical Industry Fund
The pioneers of proteome research Matthias Mann and his colleague Ruedi Aebersold receive the Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2024
AI researcher Jenna Wiens from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, receives Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and spends a research semester in Martinsried.
The Leopoldina honors Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, with the Schleiden Medal for his contributions to the understanding of cellular protein folding.
The 2023 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine is awarded jointly to Brenda Schulman and Ivan Ðikić, for their outstanding contributions to the ubiquitin research field.
Petra Schwille, Director at the MPI of Biochemistry in Martinsried, is awarded the Otto Warburg Medal 2021 in recognition of her outstanding research work.
Elena Conti and F. Ulrich Hartl, directors at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried each receive an ERC grant worth 2.1 million euros.
RNA biologist Danny Nedialkova from the MPI of Biochemistry has been elected into the EMBO Young Investigator Programme for four years starting in January 2022.
F. Ulrich Hartl, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, together with his colleague Arthur L. Horwich, receives the HFSP Nakasone Prize 2022.