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Robert Koch Prize 2024 for Lalita Ramakrishnan

Lifetime achievement award: Stuart L. Schreiber to get Robert Koch Gold Medal
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Timothy Springer and Francisco Sánchez-Madrid in Berlin have been awarded the Robert Koch Prize

Lifetime achievement award: Patrice Courvalin receives Robert Koch Gold Medalread more

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Nobel Prize 2023 for Robert Koch Award Winner 2022 Drew Weissman

This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology goes to Katalin Karikó and to the 2022 Robert Koch Prize winner, Drew Weissman.read more

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Robert Koch Prize 2023 for pioneering work in immunology goes to US and Spanish scientists

Robert Koch Prize 2023 for Timothy Springer and Francisco Sanchez-Madrid
Lifetime achievement award: Patrice Courvalin to receive Robert Koch Gold Medalread more

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Robert Koch Prize 2022 for Philip Felgner and Drew Weissman

Lifetime achievement award: Jörg Hacker receives Robert Koch in Medal Gold
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Prof. Dr. Stephan Jürgen Harbarth receives the award for hospital hygiene and infection prevention 2022

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Nobel Prize for Robert Koch Laureates

The US American virologist Charles M. Rice, winner of the Robert Koch Prize 2015, and Michael Houghton, winner of the Robert Koch Prize 1993, together with Harvey J. Alter from the National Institute of Health, have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their research has contributed to the cure of hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is a disease that affects approximately 170 million people worldwide.

Many thanks to all speakers, chairs and participants for sharing data and ideas and the lively discussions at the Alumni Symposium 2022 – 25 years of Robert Koch Postdoc Prizes. We are looking forward to the next Alumni Symposium of the Robert Koch Postdoc Prize Awardees, presumably in 2026.
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Receiving the Robert Koch Award yields a lot of important international recognition for one’s work.

Tasuku Honjo
Robert Koch Award 2012,
Nobel Prize for Medicine 2018

Being honoured by the Foundation serves simultaneously as recognition for the teams behind the award winners.

Petra Gastmeier
Award for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention 2015

For me and my field, recognition of our work by the Robert Koch Award highlighted the importance of basic research.

Charles M. Rice
Robert Koch Award 2015

It is sometimes difficult to communicate research results to the public. The Robert Koch Award has enabled us to make the new therapy for chronic hepatitis C better known.

Ralf Bartenschlager
Robert Koch Award 2015

The Robert Koch award is one of the top prizes internationally. Receiving it tells you that your science is really cutting edge – and this is very motivating for future work.

Pascale Cossart
Robert Koch Award 2007

The battle against microbial pathogens has not been won and that infectious diseases remain, and will continue to remain, a major challenge for society at large.

Jorge Galán
Robert Koch Award 2011

For me as a young researcher, the award was a great honour; and meeting some of the leading minds in science was enormously inspiring.

Gülşah Gabriel
Advancement Award of the City of Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2012

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The Foundation has been awarding the Robert Koch Prize since 1960 for extraordinary scientific discoveries in Robert Koch's fields of work, especially in basic research in infectiology and immunology.read more

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Save the date:
Award ceremony on November 8, 2024 in Berlin

Robert Koch Prize 2024 for Lalita Ramakrishnan

Timothy Springer and Francisco Sánchez-Madrid in Berlin have been awarded the Robert Koch Prize

Nobel Prize 2023 for Robert Koch Award Winner 2022 Drew Weissman

Robert Koch Prize 2023 for pioneering work in immunology goes to US and Spanish scientists

Robert Koch Prize 2022 for Philip Felgner and Drew Weissman

Prof. Dr. Stephan Jürgen Harbarth receives the award for hospital hygiene and infection prevention 2022

Nobel Prize for Robert Koch Laureates

Receiving the Robert Koch Award yields a lot of important international recognition for one’s work.

Being honoured by the Foundation serves simultaneously as recognition for the teams behind the award winners.

For me and my field, recognition of our work by the Robert Koch Award highlighted the importance of basic research.

It is sometimes difficult to communicate research results to the public. The Robert Koch Award has enabled us to make the new therapy for chronic hepatitis C better known.

The Robert Koch award is one of the top prizes internationally. Receiving it tells you that your science is really cutting edge – and this is very motivating for future work.

The battle against microbial pathogens has not been won and that infectious diseases remain, and will continue to remain, a major challenge for society at large.

For me as a young researcher, the award was a great honour; and meeting some of the leading minds in science was enormously inspiring.