
The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize is an annual award bestowed by the Paul Ehrlich Foundation since 1952 for research in medicine. It carries a monetary prize of 120,000 Euro.[1] The prize ceremony is traditionally held on 14 March, the birthday of Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich, in St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main. The other namesake is Ludwig Darmstaedter.
Researchers from countries worldwide are awarded in the following fields of medicine: Immunology, Cancer research, Haematology, Microbiology and experimental and clinical Chemotherapy.
The prize is one of the highest endowed and internationally distinguished awards in medicine that is based in Germany.
List of winners



Some of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize winners have also been awarded the Nobel Prize. (
indicates Nobel Prize recipients):[2]
- 1952
- 1953
- Adolf Butenandt, Munich (
1939)
- Adolf Butenandt, Munich (
- 1954
- Ernst Boris Chain, London (
1945)
- Ernst Boris Chain, London (
- 1956
- Gerhard Domagk, Elberfeld (
1939)
- Gerhard Domagk, Elberfeld (
- 1958
- Richard Johann Kuhn, Heidelberg (
1938)
- Richard Johann Kuhn, Heidelberg (
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- Otto Heinrich Warburg, Berlin (
1931)
- Otto Heinrich Warburg, Berlin (
- 1963
- Helmut Holzer, Freiburg im Breisgau
- Lothar Jaenicke, Cologne
- Detlev Kayser, Berlin
- Tullio Terranova, Rome
- 1964
- 1965
- Otto Lüderitz, Freiburg im Breisgau
- Léon Le Minor, Paris
- Ida Ørskov, Copenhagen
- Frits Ørskov, Copenhagen
- Bruce Stocker, Stanford
- 1966
- Francis Peyton Rous, New York (
1966)
- Francis Peyton Rous, New York (
- 1967
- Wilhelm Bernhard, Villejuif
- Renato Dulbecco, San Diego (
1975)
- 1968
- 1969
- Hiroshi Nikaido, Boston
- Anne-Marie Staub, Paris
- Winifred M. Watkins, London
- 1970
- Ernst Ruska, Berlin (
1986) - Helmut Ruska, Düsseldorf
- Ernst Ruska, Berlin (
- 1971
- Albert Claude, Brussels
- Keith R. Porter, Boulder
- Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, Los Angeles
- 1972
- Denis Parsons Burkitt, London / Uganda
- Jan Waldenström, Malmö
- 1973
- 1974
- James L. Gowans, Oxford
- Jacques Miller, Melbourne
- 1975
- George Bellamy Mackaness, Saranac Lake
- Avrion Mitchison, London
- Morten Simonsen, Copenhagen
- 1976
- 1977
- Torbjörn Caspersson, Stockholm
- John B. Gurdon, Cambridge
- 1978
- Ludwik Gross, New York
- Werner Schäfer, Tübingen
- 1979
- Arnold Graffi, Berlin
- Otto Mühlbock, Amsterdam
- Wallace P. Rowe, Bethesda
- 1980
- Akiba Tomoichirō, Saitama
- Hamao Umezawa, Tokyo
- 1981
- Stanley Falkow, Seattle
- Susumu Mitsuhashi, Maebashi
- 1982
- Niels Kaj Jerne, Castillon-du-Gard (
1986)
- Niels Kaj Jerne, Castillon-du-Gard (
- 1983
- Peter C. Doherty, Canberra (
1996) - Michael Potter, Bethesda
- Rolf Zinkernagel, Zürich (
1996)
- Peter C. Doherty, Canberra (
- 1984
- Piet Borst, Amsterdam
- George A. M. Cross, New York
- 1985
- Ernest Bueding, Baltimore
- Louis H. Miller, Bethesda
- Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig, New York University
- 1986
- Abner L. Notkins, Bethesda
- 1987
- 1988
- Peter K. Vogt, Los Angeles
- 1989
- Stuart A. Aaronson, Bethesda
- Russell F. Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
- Thomas Graf, Heidelberg
- 1990
- 1991
- Rino Rappuoli, Siena
- Michio Ui, Tokyo
- 1992
- Manfred Eigen, Göttingen (
1967)
- Manfred Eigen, Göttingen (
- 1993
- Philippa Marrack, Denver
- John W. Kappler, Denver
- Harald von Boehmer, Basel
- 1994
- Peter M. Howley, Boston
- Harald zur Hausen, Heidelberg (
2008)
- 1995
- Stanley Prusiner, San Francisco (
1997)
- Stanley Prusiner, San Francisco (
- 1996
- Pamela J. Bjorkman, Pasadena
- Hans-Georg Rammensee, Heidelberg
- Jack L. Strominger, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1997
- Barry Marshall, Perth, Western Australia (
2005) - John Robin Warren, Perth, Western Australia (
2005)
- Barry Marshall, Perth, Western Australia (
- 1998
- 1999
- Robert Charles Gallo, Baltimore
- 2000
- H. Robert Horvitz, Cambridge, Massachusetts (
2002) - John F. R. Kerr, Brisbane
- H. Robert Horvitz, Cambridge, Massachusetts (
- 2001
- Stephen C. Harrison, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Michael G. Rossmann, West Lafayette
- 2002
- 2003
- Richard A. Lerner, La Jolla
- Peter G. Schultz, La Jolla
- 2004
- 2005
- Ian Wilmut, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
- 2006
- Craig Mello, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts (
2006) - Andrew Z. Fire, Stanford University (
2006)
- Craig Mello, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts (
- 2007
- Ada Yonath, Biochemist, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel (
2009) - Harry Noller, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- Ada Yonath, Biochemist, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel (
- 2008
- 2009
- Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco (
2009) - Carol W. Greider, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (
2009)
- Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco (
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and Umeå University (
2020) - Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley (
2020)
- Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and Umeå University (
- 2017
- 2018
- Anthony Cerami, Araim Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, New York State
- David Wallach, The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot[4][5]
- 2019
- Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute, Munich
- Arthur L. Horwich, Yale School of Medicine[6]
- 2020
- Shimon Sakaguchi, Osaka University, Japan[7][8] (
2025)
- Shimon Sakaguchi, Osaka University, Japan[7][8] (
- 2021
- Michael R. Silverman, Emeritus Agouron Institute in La Jolla
- Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute[9][10]
- 2022
- Katalin Karikó, University of Pennsylvania (
2023) - Özlem Türeci, BioNTech in Mainz (Germany)
- Uğur Şahin, BioNTech in Mainz (Germany)[11]
- Katalin Karikó, University of Pennsylvania (
- 2023
- Frederick W. Alt, Harvard Medical School
- David G. Schatz, Yale Medical School[12][13][14]
- 2024
- Dennis Kasper, Harvard Medical School[15][16]
- 2025
- Andrea Ablasser, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
- Glen Barber, Ohio State University
- Zhijian "James" Chen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center[17]
- 2026
- Davor Solter, Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany
- Azim Surani, University of Cambridge, UK [18]
See also
References
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- ↑ "Liste der Nobelpreisträger*innen". Goethe-Universität (in German). Archived from the original on 11 July 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ↑ "Michael Reth – University". Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg – Albert-Ludwigs-Universität. 14 November 2012. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
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- ↑ "Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstaedter-Preis 2018". Bundesgesundheitsministerium (in German). Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- ↑ "Hohe Auszeichnung für Proteinforscher". Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (in German). 9 November 2020. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
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- ↑ "Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstaedter-Preis ohne Festakt". Süddeutsche Zeitung. 14 March 2020. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- ↑ "Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstaedter-Preisträger 2021". Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (in German). Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- ↑ Mrusek, Marco (27 January 2021). "Mikrobiologen mit Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstaedter-Preis geehrt". AerzteZeitung.de (in German). Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- ↑ "Katalin Karikó, Özlem Türeci und Uğur Şahin erhalten Paul Ehrlich- und Ludwig Darmstaedter-Preis 2022". idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft e.V. 21 September 2021. Archived from the original on 16 November 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ↑ "Laureates 2023". Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ↑ "Paul-Ehrlich-Preis: Zwei US-Immunologen erhalten Auszeichnung 2023". hessenschau.de (in German). 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ↑ "Ehrlich-Preis für Forschung zum Immunsystem". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 20 September 2022. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ↑ "Biochemische Sprache – US-Immunologe Dennis Kasper erhält Paul-Ehrlich-Preis". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 19 September 2023. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ↑ Simon, Veronika (19 September 2023). "Medizinpreis für Mikrobiologen: So kommunizieren Bakterien mit unserem Körper". tagesschau.de (in German). Archived from the original on 21 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ↑ "Laureates 2025". Archived from the original on 16 June 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ↑ Laureates 2026
External links
- Official website (in German and English)