The Meyenburg Foundation In 1975, Maria Meyenburg, widow of leather manufacturer Wilhelm Meyenburg from Krempe in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, decreed in her will that a foundation is established in support of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. In addition to the sizeable Meyenburg Prize, which has been awarded annually since 1981, the foundation operates a guest house for foreign scientists in Heidelberg and has supported a lecture series with renowned scientists from the field of cancer research. The prize, which is currently worth 50,000 €, is awarded for outstanding achievements in cancer research.
The Meyenburg Award winners:
Werner W. Franke (1981) Matthias Mann (2000) Holger Kirchner and Shoichiro Tsukita (2001) Volker Schirrmacher (1982/83) Andrew Z. Fire (2002) Lutz Gissmann (1984) Erich A. Nigg (2004) Volker Sturm (1985) Thomas Tuschl (2005) Karin Mölling (1986) Elizabeth H. Blackburn (2006) Mary Osborn (1987) Shinya Yamanaka (2007) Elisabeth Gateff (1988) Hans Clevers (2008) Peter Herrlich (1989) Brian Druker (2009) Rainer Storb (1990) Alan Ashworth (2010) Hans-Georg Rammensee (1991) Stefan Hell (2011) Walter Birchmeier (1992) Charles Mullighan (2012) Johannes Gerdes (1993) Nathanael Gray (2013) Gert Riethmüller (1994) Peter Campbell (2014) David P. Lane (1995) Ton Schumacher (2015) Peter Krammer (1996) Yuan Chang and Patrick S. Moore (1997) MeyenburgStiftung Richard D. Wood (1998) Carl-Henrik Heldin (1999) Cancer Research Award Symposium
Donation Account: th Deutsche Bank Heidelberg, IBAN DE63 672 700 03 0 629 907 December 20 , 2016 DKFZ Communication Center Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) Lecture Hall Im Neuenheimer Feld 280 69120 Heidelberg Telefon 06221.42-2854 [email protected] www.dkfz.de MeyenburgStiftung Cancer Research Award Symposium
December 20th, 2016 DKFZ Communication Center Lecture Hall
15:30 Christof von Kalle 17:20 Zóltan Ivics National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen Welcome Engineering the Genome with the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System 15:40 Michael Boutros German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg 17:50 Laudation for Emmanuelle Charpentier Systematic Disruption of Gene Function to Interrogate Cancer Genomes 18:00 Emmanuelle Charpentier Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin 16:10 Jürgen Tautz CRISPR-Cas9: a Bacterial Immune University of Würzburg System Repurposed as a Transformative BEE-onics – Lessons from Honeybees Genome Engineering Technology
17:00 Coffee Break 18:45 Marion Meyenburg Award Presentation to Emmanuelle Charpentier
19:00 Reception