Max Delbrück Medal 2011
Basic data of the distinction
Type of award: Research award or other distinction
Awarded by: Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Award given to: Schöler, Hans Robert
Date of awarding: 15/10/2011
About the distinction
The stem cell researcher Professor Hans Schöler of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, has been honored in Berlin with the Max Delbrück Medal. Hans Schöler, a leading scientist internationally in the field of stem cell research, received the medal for his research on the reprogramming of neural stem cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). Pluripotent stem cells can give rise to each of the more than 200 cell types of an organism. That is why targeted, induced generation of these cells via reprogramming in the laboratory is of such great interest to researchers. They hope to be able to utilize these “all-rounder” cells in the future for the therapy of serious diseases.
Link to the press release of the awarding organisation: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/36349692/20111021-max-delbr_ck-medaille_f_r_stammzellforsche
Link zur Pressemitteilung der Universität Münster: http://www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/research/teams/schoeler/index.html
About the award
Die Max-Delbrück-Medaille war eine zwischen 1992 und 2013 vom Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC) vergebene wissenschaftliche Auszeichnung, die nach dem Biophysiker Max Delbrück benannt ist. Sie wird im Rahmen der Berlin Lectures on Molecular Medicine verliehen, die das MDC zusammen mit anderen Berliner Forschungseinrichtungen und der Schering Forschungsgesellschaft jährlich veranstaltet.
Type of award: Prize for excellent research
Zeitraum der Vergabe: 1992 - 2013