Albrecht-Kossel Award

Albrecht Kossel Prize

     

  • Subject: biochemistry
  • Consists of: 7,500 euros, certificate
  • First awarded: 2014
  • Awarded in: Even years
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With the Albrecht Kossel Prize, the GDCh honors personalities who have done excellent work in the field of Biochemistry . The price was decided by the board of directors in December 2012. In 1910 Albrecht Kossel received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of the contribution that his work on proteins, including nuclei, has made to our knowledge of the chemistry of the cell".

Current awardee: Andreas Marx, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Professor Andreas Marx receives the Albrecht-Kossel Award for his groundbreaking work in the field of chemical biology of protein-nucleic acid interactions, in particular the development of methods for nucleic acid replication and protein modification, as well as the discovery of a human RNA ligase.

More information about Professor Marx

Award winner interview 2020

Award winners since 2014

2024

Andreas Marx, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

2022 Andres Jäscke, University of Heidelberg
2020 Marina Rodnina, Göttingen
2018 Annette Beck-Sickinger, Leipzig
2016 Johannes Buchner, Garching
2014 Roland Lill, Marburg

selection committee

Prof. Dr. Christian Hackenberger, Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology Berlin (lead management)
Prof. Dr. Annette Gabriele Beck-Sickinger, University of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Mark Helm, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Lang, ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Helma Wennemers, ETH Zurich

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