2014 - 50th Anniversary
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Heinrich Wieland Prize, the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation has permanently raised the prize money to 100,000 euros and hosted a scientific symposium and a special festive award ceremony in the stately Max Joseph Hall of the Munich Residenz, Germany, on October 21, 2014.
Five of the six speakers at the symposium were Heinrich Wieland Laureates, ranging from the 1990 recipient James Rothmann (Nobel Laureate 2013) to the 2014 Laureate Reinhard Jahn.
Speakers at the award symposium were:
- Professor Dr Nenad Ban, PhD
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
"Beyond the prokaryotic ribosome"
Heinrich Wieland Laureate 2010 - Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
"In vivo chemistry"
Heinrich Wieland Laureate 2012
Due to a Lufthansa strike, this talk had to be cancelled. - Professor Dr F.-Ulrich Hartl
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
"Molecular chaperones in protein folding and proteostasis"
Heinrich Wieland Laureate 2011 - Professor Dr Reinhard Jahn
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
"Trafficking vesicles - what gives them their identity?"
Heinrich Wieland Laureate 2014 - Professor Steven Ley, PhD
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
"Natural products: an inspiration for discovery"
Heinrich Wieland Laureate 2009 - Professor Kim Nasmyth, PhD
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
"How are chromosomes held together?" - Professor James Rothman, PhD
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
"Regulation of neurotransmitter release"
Heinrich Wieland Laureate 1990 - Professor Dr Herbert Jäckle
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Laudation - Professor Dr Herwig Baier
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Keynote lecture: "Mapping the brain"
You will find the programme of the award symposium here.
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