The award includes prize money of 10,000 Euros and is awarded annually for outstanding scientific achievements in the area of cancer research. The prizewinners should be able to be regarded as young, relative to their achievements.
The prize is conferred at the ceremonial session on the Academy’s Einstein Day celebration at the end of the year.
Deadline for nominations 2025: 30th September 2024
Nomination form (DOCX, 16KB)
2023: Dr. Gaetano Gargiulo
2021: Professor Dr. med. Thomas Oellerich
2020: Professor Dr. med. Robert Zeiser
2019: Dr. Ana Banito
2018: Dr. Marieke Essers
2017: Professor Dr.-Ing. Lena Maier-Hein
2016: Dr. Roland Felix Schwarz
2015: Professor Dr. Daniel Rauh
2014: Dr. med. Christiane Opitz
2013: Professor Dr. Georg Lenz
2012: Dr. Thomas Hofmann
2011: PD Dr. med. Alexander Rösch
2010: Professor Dr. Ulrike Stein
2009: Professor Dr. Lars Zender
2008: Professor Dr. Christoph Bremer
2007: Professor Dr. Jürgen Christian Becker
2006: PD Dr. Karl Lenhard Rudolph
2005: Dr. Ulrike Ziebold
2004: Professor Dr. Michael Weller
2003: Dr. Peter Daniel
2003: Dr. Claus Belka
2001: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Barbara Wollenberg
2000: Professor Dr. Ruth Duncan
1999: Dr. Jürgen Behrens
1998: Professor Dr. Guido Kroemer