Franz-Ulrich Hartl receives Heineken Prize -Award for Research on Protein Folding

Proteins are the cell’s molecular building material and machineries, and they are involved in nearly every bioprocess. For his research on protein folding Franz-Ulrich Hartl, director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, will be awarded the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics. The prize is associated with a prize money amounting to 150,000 dollars and will be awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) on September 23, 2010 in Amsterdam.

Proteins are the cell’s molecular building material and machineries, and they are involved in nearly every bioprocess. For his research on protein folding Franz-Ulrich Hartl, director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, will be awarded the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics. The prize is associated with a prize money amounting to 150,000 dollars and will be awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) on September 23, 2010 in Amsterdam.