Leibniz Prize

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest academic award in Germany. It has been awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 1985.

2013: Erika von Mutius

Pediatric Allergology

Erika von Mutius was honored for her outstanding structural biology and genome biology work on DNA repair and the cellular recognition of foreign nucleic acids.
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2010: Christoph Klein*

Pediatric oncology

Christoph Klein researches the genetic basis of rare diseases of the blood and immune system and uses this knowledge to develop new therapeutic approaches.
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*Christoph Klein was not yet at the LMU Faculty of Medicine at the time of the award.

2007: Magdalena Götz

Physiological genomics

Magdalena Götz' Research on neural tissue cells is considered groundbreaking for attempts to guide the targeted differentiation of stem cells and thus solve one of the central problems of applied stem cell research.
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2005: Peter Becker

Molecular biology

Peter Beckers Uncovering a new principle of chromatin dynamics is of great importance for understanding gene activity in the development of cancer or embryonic development.
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2002: Christian Haass

Biochemistry

Christian Haass has brought the scientific field of neurodegeneration in Germany to the international forefront through his molecular and cell biological research.
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