Heinrich Wieland Prize

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

Professor Alois F�rstnerContribution
Identification of the molecularstructure of many relevant glycolipids using metal catalysed methodology

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2005: Prof. Dr Helen Hobbs
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA

Prof. Dr Helen HobbsContribution
Genetic Factors Contributing to Cholesterol Accumulation and Atherosclerosis

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2004: Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, M. Sc., Ph.D.
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA

Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, M. Sc., Ph.D.Contribution
Chemistry and Biochemistry of Cannabis and Endocannabinoids

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2004: Prof. Roger Nicoll, M.D.
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA

Prof. Roger Nicoll, M.D.Contribution
Role of endogenous cannabinoids as neurotransmitters

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2003: Prof. David J. Mangelsdorf Ph.D.
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, USA

Prof. David J. Mangelsdorf Ph.D.Contribution
Nuclear receptors as lipid sensors

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2002: Prof. Stephen O'Rahilly, M.D.
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK

Contribution
Insights into molecular mechanisms in human obesity and insulin resistance

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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

Contribution
Signalling ligands and the discovery of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase pathway
1999: Prof. Dr Ernst Heinz
Institute for General Botany University, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
A novel adipocyte long chain fatty acid transport protein
1994: Prof. Dr Joachim Seelig
Department Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter, University Basel, Switzerland

Contribution
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

Contribution
Protein transport across the membranes of mitochondria
1992: Prof. Dr Lev D. Bergelson
Shemyakin Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academie of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Contribution
Glycolipide and antitumor immunity
1991: Prof. Jan L. Breslow, M.D.
Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

Contribution
Apolipoproteing genes and atherosclerosis
1991: Prof. Dr Wolfgang J. Schneider
Institute for Molecular Genetics, Universiy Vienna, Austria

Contribution
Lipoprotein receptors in oocyte growth
1990: Prof. Dr James E. Rothman
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

Contribution
Enzymology of intracellular membrane fusion
1990: Prof. Dr Karel W.A. Wirtz
Centrum voor Biomembranen en Lipid Enzymologie, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Netherlands

Contribution
Phospholipid transfer proteins: from lipid monolayers to cells
1989: Prof. Ching-Hsien Huang, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
Metabolism and analysis of leukotrienes
1986: Prof. Eugene P. Kennedy
Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry, Boston, USA

Contribution
Metabolism and function of membrane lipids
1985: Prof. Guy Ourisson, Ph.D., Dr. Sc.
Centre de Neurochemie, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
Apoliprotein E and cholesterol metabolism
1981: Prof. Dr Bengt Samuelson
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
On the pathophysiology of the Tangier-Disease
1977: Prof. Dr Helmut K. Mangold
H.P.-Kaufmann-Institute, Federal Institute for Lipid Research, Münster, Germany

Contribution
Synthesis and biosynthesis of alkoxylipids
1976: Prof. Dr Dietrich Seidel
Medicinal University Hospital, Institute for Microbiology and Biology, Heidelberg, Germany

Contribution
Origine and structural properties of Lipoprotein X, a abnormal lipoprotein in cholestasis
1976: Prof. Dr Eckhart Schweizer
Institute for Biochemistry, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
Regulation of lipid formation in the animal. Relationships to diabetes
1972: Priv. Doz. Dr Heiner Greten
Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Contribution
Metabolism and function of human plasma lipoproteins
1972: Prof. Dr Kurt Oette
Medical University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Contribution
Experimental investigations on lipid metabolism using human liver biopsies.
1971: Prof. Dr Laurens L.M. van Deenen
Biochemcal Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht, Netherlands

Contribution
Chemistry of phospholipids in relation to biological membranes
1970: Priv. Doz. Dr Christian Bode & Priv. Doz. Dr Harald Goebell
Medical University Hospital, Marburg, Germany

Contribution
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

Contribution
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

Contribution
On the biosynthesis and synthesis of prostaglandins
1967: Priv. Doz. Dr Heinrich Wagener & Dr. Bruno Frosch
Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Contribution
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

Contribution
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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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