Ernst Schering Prize

Prof. Bert W. O'Malley

Tom Thompson Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, for his pioneering work on the actions of steroid hormones and nuclear receptors

Prof. Sir Marc Feldmann and

Prof. em. Sir Ravinder Maini

Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Imperial College London
for their fight against rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA

for his groundbreaking work in the field of transgenic animal models and therapeutic cloning

Prof. Dr. Klaus Rajewsky

CBR-Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

for his outstanding work in the field of biomedical research, especially for his works on the analysis of the development of B-lymphocytes

Prof. Carolyn R. Bertozzi

University of California, Berkeley, USA

for her outstanding research in the field of chemical glycobiology

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang P. Baumeister

Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried near Munich, Germany

for his groundbreaking work in the field of cryo-electron tomography

Prof. Dr. Thomas Tuschl

Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

for his pioneering work in the field of RNA interference

Prof. Dr. Ronald D. G. McKay

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Bethesda, MD, USA

for his pioneering work in the field of neuronal stem cell research

Prof. Dr. Svante Pääbo

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

for his groundbreaking work as founder of the field of paleogenetics

Prof. Dr. Ian Wilmut

Gene Expression & Development, Roslin Institute, UK

for his pioneering work in the development of transgenic methodologies and the "nuclear transfer protocol"

Prof. Dr. Kyriacos Nicolaou

University of California, San Diego, CA, und The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

for his outstanding work on the synthesis of natural substances

Prof. Dr. Takao Shimizu

The University of Tokyo, Japan

for his seminal research on the role of eicosanoids

Prof. Dr. Michael J. Berridge

The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK

for his pioneering work in the field of calcium signal transduction

Dr. Ilme Schlichting

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund

for her pioneering work in the field of kinetic crystallography

Prof. Dr. Johann Mulzer

Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna

for his pioneering work in the field of research of chirality

Prof. Dr. Judah Folkman

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

for his pioneering work in the field of angiogenesis and tumor researc

Prof. Dr. Yasutomi Nishizuka

Kobe University, Japan

for his pioneering work on protein kinase C

Prof. Dr. Bert Vogelstein

Oncology Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

for his work on the molecular biology of colon carcinoma

Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen

for her pioneering work in the field of developmental biology

Peter H. Seeburg

Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg

for his pioneering work in the field of the molecular biology of GABA receptors