Research & Development
Previous prize winners
The list of the prize winners reflects the outstanding reputation the Heinrich Wieland Prize enjoys and shows a large number of world-renowned scientists. The Heinrich Wieland "Medal in Gold" especially honours the lifework of a scientist.
- 2006: Professor Alois Fürstner
- Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research in Muelheim/Ruhr, Germany
Contribution
Identification of the molecularstructure of many relevant glycolipids using metal catalysed methodology
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More Information - 2005: Prof. Dr Helen Hobbs
- University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA
Contribution
Genetic Factors Contributing to Cholesterol Accumulation and Atherosclerosis
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More Information - 2004: Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, M. Sc., Ph.D.
- University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA
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Chemistry and Biochemistry of Cannabis and Endocannabinoids
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More Information - 2004: Prof. Roger Nicoll, M.D.
- University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA
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Role of endogenous cannabinoids as neurotransmitters
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More Information - 2003: Prof. David J. Mangelsdorf Ph.D.
- University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA
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Nuclear receptors as lipid sensors
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More Information - 2002: Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly, M.D.
- Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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Insights into molecular mechanisms in human obesity and insulin resistance
More Information - 2001: Prof. Dr Felix Wieland
- Center for Biochemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany
Contribution
The mechanism of the formation of transport vehicles - 2000: Prof. Lewis Clayton Cantley Ph.D.
- Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston, USA
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Signalling ligands and the discovery of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase pathway
- 1999: Prof. Dr Ernst Heinz
- Institute for General Botany University, Universität Hamburg, Germany
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Genetical modification of the biosynthesis of plant membrane and reserve lipids – possible importance for human nutrition - 1998: Prof. Dr Thomas E. Willnow
- Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Working Group Lipids and Gentherapy, Berlin, Germany
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Characterisation of LDL receptor gene family in transgenic animal models - 1997: Prof. Bruce M. Spiegelman, Ph.D
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Boston, USA
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PPARy and the transcriptional basis of adipogenesis - 1996: Prof. Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Research Laboratories, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
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Leptin, lipatosia, and the control of body weight - 1995: Prof. Jean E, Schaffer, M.D.
- Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, UK
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A novel adipocyte long chain fatty acid transport protein - 1994: Prof. Dr Joachim Seelig
- Department Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter, University Basel, Switzerland
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Lipids in biological membranes – more than a simple piece of fat! - 1993: Prof. Dr Dr Walter Neupert
- Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Physical Biochemistry and Cellbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Protein transport across the membranes of mitochondria - 1992: Prof. Dr Lev D. Bergelson
- Shemyakin Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academie of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Glycolipide and antitumor immunity - 1991: Prof. Jan L. Breslow, M.D.
- Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
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Apolipoproteing genes and atherosclerosis - 1991: Prof. Dr Wolfgang J. Schneider
- Institute for Molecular Genetics, Universiy Vienna, Austria
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Lipoprotein receptors in oocyte growth - 1990: Prof. Dr James E. Rothman
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
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Enzymology of intracellular membrane fusion - 1990: Prof. Dr Karel W.A. Wirtz
- Centrum voor Biomembranen en Lipid Enzymologie, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
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Phospholipid transfer proteins: from lipid monolayers to cells
- 1989: Prof. Ching-Hsien Huang, Ph.D.
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
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Asymmetric phospholipids and interdigitated bilayer systems - 1988: Prof. Lawrence C.B. Chan, M.D.
- Department of Cell Biology and Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
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Apolipoprotein multigene family: structure, expression, evolution, and molecular genetics - 1987: Prof. Akira Endo, Ph.D.
- Department of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry Tokyo Noko University, Tokio, Japan
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Chemical, biochemical and pharmacological studies of cholesterol-lowering drugs inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase - 1987: Prof. Dr Dietrich Keppler
- Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Department Tumorbiochemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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Metabolism and analysis of leukotrienes - 1986: Prof. Eugene P. Kennedy
- Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry, Boston, USA
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Metabolism and function of membrane lipids - 1985: Prof. Guy Ourisson, Ph.D., Dr. Sc.
- Centre de Neurochemie, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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From petroleum to the evolution of biomembranes: the Hopanoides, a new class of bacterial lipids - 1984: Priv. Doz. Dr. Olaf Adam
- Medical Polyclinic, University Hospital, München, Germany
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Nutrition physiological investigations with specific diets: The metabolism of poly unsaturated fatty acids and the prostaglandin biosynthesis in man - 1984: Prof. Dr Gerhart Kurz
- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University Freiburg, Germany
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Investigations on the transcellular transport of cholic acids using photo affinity labeling - 1983: Prof. John. M. Dietschy, M.D.
- University of Texas, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Dallas, USA
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The regulation of cholesterol balance across the differentiated tissues of the whole animal - 1982: Prof. Dr Hansjörg Eibl
- Max-Plank- Institute, Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer- Institute, Göttingen, Germany
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Phospholipids as functional components of biological membranes - 1982: Prof. Robert William Mahley,Ph.D., M.D.
- The Gladstone Foundation, San Francisco General Hospital, Medical Center, San Francisco, USA
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Apoliprotein E and cholesterol metabolism - 1981: Prof. Dr Bengt Samuelson
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden
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Leukotrienes: novel mediators in allergy and inflammation - 1980: Dr H. Bryan Brewer
- Molecular Disease Branch Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
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Molecular structure and metabolism of human apolipoproteins and lipoproteins - 1980: Prof. Barry Lewis, Ph.D.
- Department of Chemical Pathology Metabolic Disorders, St. Thomas’s Hospital, Medical School, London, UK
Contribution
Genes and nutrition in the regulation of plasma lipoprotein metabolism
- 1979: Prof. Dr Konrad Sandhoff
- Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelm-University, Bonn, Germany
Contribution
Lipid-protein-interactions: mechanisms of enzymatic glycolipid degradation and its genetic caused deregulations - 1978: Prof. Dr Olga Stein & Prof. Dr Yechezkiel Stein
- Lipid Research Laboratory, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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Interaction of lipoproteins with cellular components of the arterial wall - 1977: Priv. Doz. Dr. Gerd Assmann
- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Institute for Biochemistry and Technology, Cologne, Germany
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On the pathophysiology of the Tangier-Disease - 1977: Prof. Dr Helmut K. Mangold
- H.P.-Kaufmann-Institute, Federal Institute for Lipid Research, Münster, Germany
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Synthesis and biosynthesis of alkoxylipids - 1976: Prof. Dr Dietrich Seidel
- Medicinal University Hospital, Institute for Microbiology and Biology, Heidelberg, Germany
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Origine and structural properties of Lipoprotein X, a abnormal lipoprotein in cholestasis - 1976: Prof. Dr Eckhart Schweizer
- Institute for Biochemistry, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Biosynthesis and structure of the fatty acid synthetase complex in yeast - 1975: Priv. Doz. Dr Ernst Ferber
- Max-Plank-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg-Zähringen, Germany
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Phospholipid metabolism in stimulated Lymphocytes: The activation of membrane bound Acyl-Co A: lysolecithin, acyltransferases - 1975: Priv. Doz. Dr Klaus Resch
- Institute for Immunobiology, University Heidelberg, Germany
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Phospholipid metabolism in stimulated lymphocytes: The importance of the plasma membrane fort he cell activation - 1974: Prof. Dr Michael S. Brown & Prof. Dr Joseph L. Goldstein
- University of Texas, Health Science Centre Dallas, South-western Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine, USA
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Lipoprotein receptors and the genetic control of cholesterol metabolism in cultured human cells - 1973: Prof. Dr Shosaku Numa
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine, Japan
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Regulation of lipid formation in the animal. Relationships to diabetes - 1972: Priv. Doz. Dr Heiner Greten
- Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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Metabolism and function of human plasma lipoproteins - 1972: Prof. Dr Kurt Oette
- Medical University Hospital, Cologne, Germany
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Experimental investigations on lipid metabolism using human liver biopsies. - 1971: Prof. Dr Laurens L.M. van Deenen
- Biochemcal Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Chemistry of phospholipids in relation to biological membranes - 1970: Priv. Doz. Dr Christian Bode & Priv. Doz. Dr Harald Goebell
- Medical University Hospital, Marburg, Germany
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Pathogenesis of acute fatty liver induced by alcohol and other liver diseases caused by alcohol
- 1969: Prof. Dr Werner Seubert
- Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University Göttingen, Germany
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On the mechanism of mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis and pathological ketone body formation - 1968: Prof. Dr David Adriaan van Dorp
- Unilever Research Laboratories, Vlaardingen, Netherlands
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On the biosynthesis and synthesis of prostaglandins - 1967: Priv. Doz. Dr Heinrich Wagener & Dr. Bruno Frosch
- Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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Methods and results of the quantitative determination of conjugated cholic acids in serum during liver diseases - 1966: No award presented
- 1965: Priv. Doz. Dr Dr Wilhelm Stoffel
- Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University, Cologne, Germany
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Biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids and mechanism of oxidation of these acids - 1964: Prof. Dr Dr Ernst Klenk
- Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University, Cologne, Germany
Contribution
first award presented also honouring his lifetime achievements
- 2005: Prof. em. Dr rer. nat. Karl Decker
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Albert-Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany
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More information - 1995: Prof. Dr Theodor Wieland
- Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1989: Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Gotthard Schettler
- Clinical Institute for Coronary Infarction Research, Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany