Ernst Jung Prize

The Ernst Jung Prize is a prize awarded annually for excellence in biomedical sciences. The Ernst Jung Foundation, funded by Hamburg merchant Ernst Jung in 1967, has awarded the Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine, now €300,000, since 1976, and the lifetime achievement Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine since 1990.

Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine
Source: Jung Foundation


 * 1976: Donald Henderson and Lorenz Zimmerman
 * 1977: Georg F. Springer and John B. West
 * 1979: Karl Lennert and Anthony G. E. Pearse
 * 1980: Eberhard Dodt, Alan Parks and Bruno Speck
 * 1981: David E. Kuhl
 * 1982: Hartmut Wekerle and Rolf M. Zinkernagel
 * 1983: Hans-Jürgen Bretschneider and Richard Lower
 * 1984: George Gee Jackson, Werner Franke and Klaus Weber
 * 1985: Hendrik Coenraad Hemker, Rudolf Pichlmayr and Peter K. Vogt
 * 1986: Albrecht Fleckenstein
 * 1987: Peter Richardson and Karl Julius Ullrich
 * 1988: Helmut Sies and Charles Weissmann
 * 1989: Thomas F. Budinger and Jon van Rood
 * 1990: Gerhard Giebisch and Wilhelm Stoffel
 * 1991: David Ho and Klaus Starke
 * 1992: Roy Yorke Calne and Martin E. Schwab
 * 1993: Charles A. Dinarello and Robert Machemer
 * 1994: Terence Jones (physicist) and Wolf Singer
 * 1995: Anthony Fauci and Samuel A. Wells
 * 1996: Harald zur Hausen and Eberhard Nieschlag
 * 1997: Francis V. Chisari, Hans Hengartner and Judah Folkman
 * 1998: Alain Fischer
 * 1999: Adriano Aguzzi and Hans A. Kretzschmar
 * 2000: Martin J. Lohse and Peter H. Krammer
 * 2001: Christine Petit and Thomas Jentsch
 * 2002: Michael Frotscher and Christian Haass
 * 2003: Ari Helenius and Reinhard Lührmann
 * 2004: Stuart A. Lipton and Tobias Bonhoeffer
 * 2005: Ernst Hafen and Franz-Ulrich Hartl
 * 2006: Reinhard Jahn and Markus F. Neurath
 * 2007: Andreas Zeiher, Stefanie Dimmeler and Josef Penninger
 * 2008: Thomas Benzing, Gerd Walz and Thomas Tuschl
 * 2009: Jens Claus Brüning and Patrick Cramer
 * 2010: Stephen G. Young and Peter Carmeliet
 * 2011: Hans Clevers and Christian Büchel
 * 2012: Peter Walter and Elisa Izaurralde
 * 2013: Angelika Amon and Ivan Đikić
 * 2014: Thomas Boehm
 * 2015: Emmanuelle Charpentier
 * 2016: Hans-Georg Rammensee
 * 2017: Tobias Moser and Nenad Ban
 * 2018: Ruth Ley and Marco Prinz
 * 2019: Brenda A. Schulman and Gary R. Lewin
 * 2020: Matthias Tschöp
 * 2021: Christian Hertweck
 * 2022: Ralf Bartenschlager and Ingrid Fleming
 * 2023: Özlem Türeci

Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine
Source: Jung Foundation


 * 1990: Beatrice Mintz
 * 1991: Heinrich Schipperges
 * 1992: Hans Erhard Bock
 * 1993: Robert Daroff
 * 1994: Hanns Hippius
 * 1995: Friedrich Stelzner
 * 1996: Karl-Hermann Meyer zum Büschenfelde
 * 1997: Rudolf Haas (philologist) and Walter Siegenthaler
 * 1998: Wolfgang Gerok
 * 1999: Hans Wilhelm Schreiber
 * 2000: Gert Riethmüller
 * 2001: Gustav Born
 * 2002: Harald Reuter
 * 2003: Volker ter Meulen
 * 2004: Werner Creutzfeldt
 * 2005: Christian Herfarth
 * 2006: Dietrich Niethammer
 * 2007: Hans Thoenen
 * 2008: Hans-Dieter Klenk
 * 2009: Volker Diehl (physician)
 * 2010: Klaus Rajewsky
 * 2011: Michel Lazdunski
 * 2012: Peter Herrlich
 * 2013: Salvador Moncada
 * 2014: Charles Weissmann
 * 2015: Walter Neupert
 * 2016: Peter Libby
 * 2017: Pascale Cossart
 * 2018: Wolfgang Baumeister
 * 2019: Pietro De Camilli
 * 2021: Antonio Lanzavecchia
 * 2022: Alain Fischer
 * 2023: Stefan Rose-John