Avrion Mitchison Prize
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The German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin (DRFZ) awards the annual Avrion Mitchison Prize for the best experimental, clinical or epidemiological research work in rheumatology. The prize honors outstanding work by young scientists in the German-speaking countries. It carries a prize money of 2,500 euros and is funded by the Ernst Schering Foundation. |
Avrion Mitchison Prize 2012
Dr. med. Stefan UderhardtUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Rheumatology and Immunology "12/15-lipoxygenase orchestrates the clearance of apoptotic cells and maintains immunologic tolerance" |
Avrion Mitchison Prize 2011
Dr. Anna-Barbara StittrichGerman Rheumatism Research Center Berlin "The microRNA miR-182 is induced by IL-2 and promotes clonal expansion of activated helper T lymphocytes" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2010
Dr. Edda SchulzInstitut Curie, Paris "Sequential polarization and imprinting of type 1 T helper lymphocytes by interferon-g and interleukin-12" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2009
Inka AlbrechtGerman Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin "The pro-inflammatory immunological memory: twist1 autoregulates / Th1 mediated inflammation" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2009
Dr. Kai KessenbrockUniversity of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA "Neutrophil granulocytes in autoimmunity and inflammation" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2008
Dr. Kirsten NeubertDermatology Clinic at the University of Erlangen, Department Biology of Arborescent Cells "The proteosome inhibitor bortezomib depletes plasma cells and protects mice with lupus-like disease from nephritis" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2007
Dr. Thomas TillerMax-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Berlin "Autoreaktivität in humanen lgG+ Gedächtnis B-Zellen" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2006
Dr. Varsha KumarTheodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern "Anaphylatoxin as key molecule in an antibody-induced type II autoimmune disease in mice" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2005
Dr. Ute WellmanSection of Hematopoiesis at the Chair of Genetics "The development of humane anti-dsDNA auto-antibodies" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2004
Dr. Bimba Franziska HoyerRheumatology und Clinical Immunology, Charité University Hospital Berlin "Long-lived, immune-suppressant resistent plasma cells contribute to auto-antibody production during systemic autoimmune diseases" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2004
Dr. Bert Maier and Dr. David SchubertT-Cell Immunology, German Rheumatism Research Center Berlin "Immunization with glucose-6-phosphate isomerase induces T-cell-dependent peripheral polyarthritis in genetically unaltered mice" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2003
Dr. Anja E. HauserGerman Rheumatism Research Center Berlin "Chemotaxis of IgG secreting cells" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2002
Dr. Jochen Hühn and Dr. Joachim LehmannExperimental Rheumatology, Charité University Hospital Berlin "The expression of integrin aEß7 identies new CD4+ subsets of CD25+ and CD25 regulatory t-cells" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2001
Dr. Marcus K. OdendahlGerman Rheumatism Research Center Berlin "Disturbed peripheral B lymphocyte homeostasis in systemic lupus erythematosus" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2000
Dr. Anne Richter and Dr. Max LöhningGerman Rheumatism Research Center Berlin "Cytokine memory in T helper lymphocytes" |
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Avrion Mitchison Prize 2000
Dr. Verena Moos"Cytokine expression and regulation in osteoarthritic human cartilage" |
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