Prize Winners

Center for Biochemistry, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg (Germany)

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The mechanism of the formation of transport vehicles

Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston (USA)

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Signalling ligands and the discovery of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase pathway

Institute for General Botany University, University of Hamburg (Germany)

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Genetical modification of the biosynthesis of plant membrane and reserve lipids - possible importance for human nutrition

Max-Delbrueck-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

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Boston (USA)

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PPARy and the transcriptional basis of adipogenesis

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Research Laboratories, The Rockefeller University, New York (USA)

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Leptin, lipatosia, and the control of body weight

Whitehead Institute for Biological Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (UK)

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A novel adipocyte long chain fatty acid transport protein

Department for Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter, University of Basel (Switzerland)

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Lipids in biological membranes - more than a simple piece of fat!

Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Physical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Germany)

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Protein transport across the membranes of mitochondria

Shemyakin Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry (Russia)n Academie of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)

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Glycolipide and antitumor immunity

Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York (USA)

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Apolipoproteing genes and atherosclerosis

Institute for Molecular Genetics, Universiy Vienna, Austria

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Lipoprotein receptors in oocyte growth

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey (USA)

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Enzymology of intracellular membrane fusion

Centrum voor Biomembranen en Lipid Enzymologie, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (Netherlands)

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Phospholipid transfer proteins: from lipid monolayers to cells

Department of Biochemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA)

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Asymmetric phospholipids and interdigitated bilayer systems

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

Department of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, Tokyo Noko University, Tokyo (Japan)

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Chemical, biochemical and pharmacological studies of cholesterol-lowering drugs inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase

Institute for Nuclear Medicine, Department Tumorbiochemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg (Germany)

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Metabolism and analysis of leukotrienes

Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry, Boston (USA)

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Metabolism and function of membrane lipids

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

Medical Polyclinic, University Hospital, Munich (Germany)

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Nutrition physiological investigations with specific diets: The metabolism of poly unsaturated fatty acids and the prostaglandin biosynthesis in man

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

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

Max-Plank- Institute, Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer- Institute, Goettingen (Germany)

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Phospholipids as functional components of biological membranes

The Gladstone Foundation, San Francisco General Hospital, Medical Center, San Francisco (USA)

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Apoliprotein E and cholesterol metabolism

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Stockholm (Sweden)

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Leukotrienes: novel mediators in allergy and inflammation

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

Department of Chemical Pathology Metabolic Disorders, St. Thomas's Hospital, Medical School, London (UK)

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Genes and nutrition in the regulation of plasma lipoprotein metabolism

Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelm-University, Bonn (Germany)

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Lipid-protein-interactions: mechanisms of enzymatic glycolipid degradation and its genetic caused deregulations

Lipid Research Laboratory, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem (Israel)

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Interaction of lipoproteins with cellular components of the arterial wall

Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Institute for Biochemistry and Technology, Cologne (Germany)

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On the pathophysiology of the Tangier-Disease

H.P.-Kaufmann-Institute, Federal Institute for Lipid Research, Muenster (Germany)

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Synthesis and biosynthesis of alkoxylipids

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

Institute for Biochemistry, University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)

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Biosynthesis and structure of the fatty acid synthetase complex in yeast

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

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

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 

Department of Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine (Japan)

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Regulation of lipid formation in the animal. Relationships to diabetes

Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg (Germany)

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Metabolism and function of human plasma lipoproteins

Medical University Hospital, Cologne (Germany)

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Experimental investigations on lipid metabolism using human liver biopsies.

Biochemcal Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht (Netherlands)

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Chemistry of phospholipids in relation to biological membranes

Medical University Hospital, Marburg (Germany)

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Pathogenesis of acute fatty liver induced by alcohol and other liver diseases caused by alcohol

Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University Goettingen (Germany)

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On the mechanism of mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis and pathological ketone body formation

Unilever Research Laboratories, Vlaardingen (Netherlands)

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On the biosynthesis and synthesis of prostaglandins

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

Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University, Cologne (Germany)

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Biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids and mechanism of oxidation of these acids

Institute for Physiology and Chemistry, University, Cologne (Germany)

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first award presented also honouring his lifetime achievements

Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg (Germany)

Clinical Institute for Coronary Infarction Research, Medical University Hospital, Heidelberg (Germany)