Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize is an annual award bestowed by the Paul Ehrlich Foundation since 1952 for investigations in medicine. It carries a prize money of 120,000 Euro. The prize awarding ceremony is traditionally held on 14 March, the birthday of Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich, in the St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main.

Researchers from worldwide are awarded in the following fields of medicine: Immunology, Cancer research, Haematology, Microbiology and experimental and clinical Chemotherapy.

It is one of the highest endowed and internationally most distinguished awards in medicine in Germany.

List of winners
Some of the prize winners were awarded the Nobel Prize. ( indicates Nobel Prize recipients):


 * 1952
 * Gerhard Eissner, Tübingen
 * Wolf-Helmut Wagner, Nonnenhorn
 * 1953
 * Adolf Butenandt, Munich Nobel Prize.png 1939
 * 1954
 * Ernst Boris Chain, London Nobel Prize.png 1945
 * 1956
 * Gerhard Domagk, Elberfeld Nobel Prize.png 1939
 * 1958
 * Richard Johann Kuhn, Heidelberg Nobel Prize.png 1938
 * 1960
 * Felix Haurowitz, Bloomington
 * 1961
 * Albert Hewett Coons, Boston
 * Günther Heymann, Langen
 * Örjan Ouchterlony, Gothenburg
 * Jacques Oudin (biologist), Paris
 * 1962
 * Otto Heinrich Warburg, Berlin Nobel Prize.png 1931
 * 1963
 * Helmut Holzer, Freiburg im Breisgau
 * Lothar Jaenicke, Cologne
 * Detlev Kayser, Berlin
 * Tullio Terranova, Rome
 * 1964
 * Fritz Kauffmann (bacteriologist), Copenhagen
 * 1965
 * Otto Lüderitz, Freiburg im Breisgau
 * Léon Le Minor, Paris
 * Ida Ørskov, Copenhagen
 * Frits Ørskov, Copenhagen
 * Bruce Stocker, Stanford
 * 1966
 * Francis Peyton Rous, New York Nobel Prize.png 1966
 * 1967
 * Wilhelm Bernhard, Villejuif
 * Renato Dulbecco, San Diego Nobel Prize.png 1975
 * 1968
 * Walter Thomas James Morgan, London
 * Otto Westphal, Montreux
 * 1969
 * Hiroshi Nikaido, Boston
 * Anne-Marie Staub, Paris
 * Winifred M. Watkins, London
 * 1970
 * Ernst Ruska, Berlin Nobel Prize.png 1986
 * Helmut Ruska, Düsseldorf
 * 1971
 * Albert Claude, Brussels
 * Keith R. Porter, Boulder
 * Fritiof S. Sjöstrand, Los Angeles
 * 1972
 * Denis Parsons Burkitt, London / Uganda
 * Jan Waldenström, Malmö
 * 1973
 * Michael Anthony Epstein, Bristol
 * Kimishige Ishizaka, Baltimore
 * Dennis H. Wright, Southampton
 * 1974
 * James L. Gowans, Oxford
 * Jacques Miller, Melbourne
 * 1975
 * George Bellamy Mackaness, Saranac Lake
 * Avrion Mitchison, London
 * Morten Simonsen, Copenhagen
 * 1976
 * Georges Barski, Villejuif
 * Boris Ephrussi, Gif-sur-Yvette
 * 1977
 * Torbjörn Caspersson, Stockholm
 * John B. Gurdon, Cambridge
 * 1978
 * Ludwik Gross, New York
 * Werner Schäfer (virologist), Tübingen
 * 1979
 * Arnold Graffi, Berlin
 * Otto Mühlbock, Amsterdam
 * Wallace P. Rowe, Bethesda
 * 1980
 * Akiba Tomoichirō, Saitama
 * Hamao Umezawa, Tokyo
 * 1981
 * Stanley Falkow, Seattle
 * Susumu Mitsuhashi, Maebashi
 * 1982
 * Niels Kaj Jerne, Castillon-du-Gard Nobel Prize.png 1986
 * 1983
 * Peter C. Doherty, Canberra Nobel Prize.png 1996
 * Michael Potter, Bethesda
 * Rolf Zinkernagel, Zürich Nobel Prize.png 1996
 * 1984
 * Piet Borst, Amsterdam
 * George A. M. Cross, New York
 * 1985
 * Ernest Bueding, Baltimore
 * Louis H. Miller, Bethesda
 * Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig, New York University
 * 1986
 * Abner L. Notkins, Bethesda
 * 1987
 * Jean-François Borel, Basel
 * Hugh O'Neill McDevitt, Stanford
 * Felix Milgrom, Buffalo
 * 1988
 * Peter K. Vogt, Los Angeles
 * 1989
 * Stuart A. Aaronson, Bethesda
 * Russell F. Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
 * Thomas Graf, Heidelberg
 * 1990
 * R. John Collier, Boston
 * Alwin Max Pappenheimer, Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * 1991
 * Rino Rappuoli, Siena
 * Michio Ui, Tokyo
 * 1992
 * Manfred Eigen, Göttingen Nobel Prize.png 1967
 * 1993
 * Philippa Marrack, Denver
 * John W. Kappler, Denver
 * Harald von Boehmer, Basel
 * 1994
 * Peter M. Howley, Boston
 * Harald zur Hausen, Heidelberg Nobel Prize.png 2008
 * 1995
 * Stanley Prusiner, San Francisco Nobel Prize.png 1997
 * 1996
 * Pamela J. Bjorkman, Pasadena
 * Hans-Georg Rammensee, Heidelberg
 * Jack L. Strominger, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * 1997
 * Barry Marshall, Perth, Western Australia Nobel Prize.png 2005
 * John Robin Warren, Perth, Western Australia Nobel Prize.png 2005
 * 1998
 * David P. Lane, Dundee
 * Arnold J. Levine, Princeton University
 * Bert Vogelstein, Baltimore
 * 1999
 * Robert Charles Gallo, Baltimore
 * 2000
 * H. Robert Horvitz, Cambridge, Massachusetts Nobel Prize.png 2002
 * John F. R. Kerr, Brisbane
 * 2001
 * Stephen C. Harrison, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 * Michael G. Rossmann, West Lafayette
 * 2002
 * Craig Venter, Rockville
 * 2003
 * Richard A. Lerner, La Jolla
 * Peter G. Schultz, La Jolla
 * 2004
 * Tak Wah Mak, University of Toronto
 * Mark M. Davis, Stanford University
 * 2005
 * Ian Wilmut, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
 * 2006
 * Craig Mello, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts Nobel Prize.png 2006
 * Andrew Z. Fire, Stanford University Nobel Prize.png 2006
 * 2007
 * Ada Yonath, Biochemist, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel Nobel Prize.png 2009
 * Harry Noller, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
 * 2008
 * Tim Mosmann, University of Rochester
 * 2009
 * Elizabeth Blackburn, University of California, San Francisco Nobel Prize.png 2009
 * Carol W. Greider, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Nobel Prize.png 2009
 * 2010
 * Charles Dinarello, University of Colorado Denver
 * 2011
 * Cesare Montecucco, University of Padua
 * 2012
 * Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco
 * 2013
 * Mary-Claire King, University of Washington, Seattle
 * 2014
 * Michael Reth, University of Freiburg
 * 2015
 * James P. Allison, University of Texas, Houston Nobel Prize.png 2018
 * Carl H. June, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
 * 2016
 * Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, and Umeå University Nobel Prize.png 2020
 * Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley Nobel Prize.png 2020
 * 2017
 * Yuan Chang, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
 * Patrick S. Moore, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
 * 2018
 * Anthony Cerami, Araim Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, New York State
 * David Wallach, The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot
 * 2019
 * Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute, Munich
 * Arthur L. Horwich, Yale School of Medicine
 * 2020
 * Shimon Sakaguchi, Osaka University, Japan
 * 2021
 * Michael R. Silverman, Emeritus Agouron Institute in La Jolla
 * Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 * 2022
 * Katalin Karikó, University of Pennsylvania Nobel Prize.png 2023
 * Özlem Türeci, BioNTech in Mainz (Germany) and
 * Uğur Şahin, BioNTech in Mainz (Germany)
 * 2023
 * Frederick W. Alt, Harvard Medical School
 * David G. Schatz, Yale Medical School
 * 2024
 * Dennis Kasper, Harvard Medical School