2020

Like Phoenix from the ashes
With his discovery of regulatory T cells, Shimon Sakaguchi revealed the secret of immunological self-tolerance.

8 June 2020

The 2020 Robert Koch Award goes to the Japanese immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi / German infection biologist Thomas F. Meyer receives the Robert Koch Gold Medal ... more

Shimon Sakaguchi receives Robert-Koch-Prize 2020 | Robert-Koch-Medal in Gold goes to Thomas F. Meyer

17 November 2020 ... more

2019

Rino Rappuoli receives Robert Koch Award 2019
Robert Koch Gold Medal goes to Martin J. Blaser

15. November 2019 ... more

Professor Alexander W. Friedrich receives the 2019 Robert Koch Award for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention
Thinking in Networks

September 24, 2019
The award-winner is a pioneer in cross-border cooperation in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria and healthcare-associated infections ... more

The genome as a gold mine
Rino Rappuoli has written medical history with a new method for producing vaccines

13. June 2019

The 2019 Robert Koch Award goes to Rino Rappuoli from Italy/
the US American Martin J. Blaser receives the Robert Koch Gold Medal ... more

2018

Change to the Board of the Robert Koch Foundation

November 26, 2018 ... more

Jeffrey V. Ravetch receives Robert Koch Award 2018, Staffan Normark honored with Robert Koch Gold Medal for his life’s work

November 16, 2018 ... more

Infection or immune tolerance
With his analysis of the antibody response, Ravetch created a paradigm change in immunology

April 27, 2018 ... more

2017

Robert Koch Award 2017 goes to Rafi Ahmed and Antonio Lanzavecchia
Christopher T. Walsh receives the Robert Koch Gold Medal for his life’s work

November 3, 2017 ... more

Didier Pittet receives the 2017 Robert Koch Award for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention
25 years ago, the award-winner laid the foundation for one of the most successful WHO patient protection campaigns.

September 20, 2017 ... more

Milestones on the way to new vaccines and immuno-therapies
The award winners deciphered central mechanisms of the human immune system, pointing the way forward to the future of medicine

June 15, 2017 ... more

2016

Robert Koch Award 2016 goes to Alberto Mantovani and Michel C. Nussenzweig Kai Simons receives the Robert Koch Gold Medal for his life’s work

November 4, 2016 ... more

With their outstanding research, laureates lay the foundation for understanding the way in which different immunological mechanisms function

June 22, 2016 ... more

2015

Robert Koch Award 2015 goes to Ralf Bartenschlager and Charles Rice | Peter Piot receives the Robert Koch Gold Medal for his life’s work

November 6, 2015 ... more

Berlin-based hygiene expert Professor Petra Gastmeier receives the Robert Koch Award for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention 2015

7. September 2015 ... more

Laureates lay the foundation for dramatic advances in the treatment of hepatitis C

April 21, 2015 ... more

2014

Robert Koch Award 2014

November 14, 2014 ... more

Researching the genetic causes of infectious and
congenital immunodeficiency disorders

June 24, 2014 ... more

2013

Robert Koch Foundation confers awards on Professors Gordon and Fauci
In honor and recognition of their pioneering work on the analysis of microbes and the pathogenesis of HIV infection

Berlin, November 15, 2013 ... more

Robert Koch Foundation awards Hospital Hygiene Prize for the first time
Learning from Münster: Prestigious award for Helge Karch

Berlin, September 4, 2013 ... more

The Robert Koch Foundation announces the 2013 laureates

Berlin, April 24, 2013 ... more

Prize for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention

Berlin, Januar 30, 2013 ... more

2012

Robert Koch Foundation confers award on Professors Honjo and Wimmer
Honouring and recognising pioneering work in immune response and the understanding of viral infections

Berlin, November 9, 2012 ... more

The Robert Koch Foundation announces the 2012 laureates
Robert Koch Awards 2012 for major contributions to the elucidation of the immune response and to the understanding of viral infections

Berlin, Juli 12, 2012 ... more

2011

Robert Koch Foundation confers award on professors Galán and Winnacker
Honour and recognition for outstanding contributions to research in the fields of microbiology and life sciences

Berlin, November 11, 2011 ... more

The Robert Koch Foundation announces the 2011 laureates
Robert Koch Awards 2011 for pioneer research in the fields of microbiology and molecular biology and for major contributions to a sustainable development of the German and European Science System

Berlin, February 17, 2011 ... more

2010

Robert Koch Foundation Award Ceremony
Fundamental research paves the way for potential new therapies

Berlin, 12 November 2010 ... more

2009

Awards presented by the Robert Koch Foundation
Resistance strategies of the immune system and defense tricks used by bacteria

Berlin, October 30, 2009 ... more