Quicklinks Honors and Awards

Quicklinks

The RESIST researchers are highly qualified and have received many awards. Among them are members of important societies such as the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) as well as winners of high-ranking prizes and holders of important patents.

Here we present a selection of memberships, awards and patents as well as a list of RESIST scientists who are or have been spokespersons for numerous research associations:

If you are interested in the scientific achievements of the individual scientists, please use our gallery of researchers.

To our gallery of researchers

Memberships

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)

  • Prof. Hansen

  • Prof. Müller

Member of the Scientific Committee and Governing Board of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)

  • Prof. Cornberg

Prizes for RESIST Scientists

  • ERC Starting Grant
    Prof. Čičin-Šain, Prof. Pietschmann, Prof. Lachmann, Prof. Li

  • ERC-Advanced Grant
    Prof. Förster

  • ERC Starting Grant and ERC Consolidator Grand
    Prof. Häußler

  • Alexander von Humboldt-Professur
    Prof. Rimmelzwaan

  • Stifterverband Science Award: Erwin Schrödinger-Preis
    Prof. Förster

  • Langener Science Prize, Paul Ehrlich Institute
    Prof. Förster, Prof. Hühn

  • Thieme Research Prize of the Leopoldina, Marie-Curie Excellence Award of the European Commission
    Prof. Grimbacher

  • Emmy-Noether Fellowship and Junior Group Award of the DFG
    Prof. Grünewald

  • Eva Luise Köhler Research Award
    Prof. Hansen

  • Herbert-Herxheimer-Price, German Society of Allergology and Immunology (DGAKI)
    Prof. Illig

  • Ferid Murad Award by ISICR for “Outstanding contributions to interferon and cytokine research”
    Prof. Kalinke

  • IBM Invention Achievement Award
    Prof. McHardy

  • Biofuture Award of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research
    Prof. Müller

  • Robert Gallo Award for Scientific Excellence and Leadership
    Prof. Osterhaus

  • Robert Koch Postdoc Prize in Virology, Robert Koch Foundation
    Prof. Pietschmann

  • Sir Hans Krebs-Preis
    Prof. Prinz

  • Chanchiani Global Health Research Award, McMaster, USA
    Prof. Osterhaus

  • Parkes-Weber Medal of the Royal College of Physicians, London
    Prof. Schulz

  • Fujisawa Research Award “Immunomodulation in Dermatology” (Major Award)
    Prof. Werfel

Selected patents

  Tabelle seitlich verschiebbar!   
Patent O2015158898 A3:
Means and methods for producing Neisseria meningitidis capsular polysaccharides of low dispersity		 Prof. Gerardy-Schahn
Patent EP17195522.2:
Diagnostics and therapy for human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV)		 Prof. Hansen
Prof. Pietschmann
Patent EP 2727911 B1:
Novel means and methods for treating malaria and other parasitic disorders		 Prof. Manstein
Patent PCT/EP2017/078291:
S100A8/S100A9-Induced Immunotolerance in a Newborn Subject		 Prof. Viemann
Patent EP2420834 A1:
Methods and means for diagnosing spondyloarthritis using autoantibody markers		 Prof. Witte
  Tabelle seitlich verschiebbar!   

RESIST researchers in leading positions of other Collaborative Research Centres, Clinical Research Groups and Research Associations

SFB 900

“Chronic Infections”

Duration:
2010 – 2018/22
Speaker:
Prof. Schulz
Funding:
DFG

Prof. Čičin-Šain, Prof. Förster, Prof. Cornberg, Prof. Häußler, Prof. Krey, Prof. Messerle, Prof. Pietschmann, Prof. Prinz, Prof. Schulz, Prof. Sodeik, Prof. Viejo-Borbolla

SFB 587

“Immune Reactions of the Lung during Infection and Allergy”

Duration:
2002 – 2013
Speaker:
Prof. Pabst, Prof. Hansen
Funding:
DFG

Prof. Förster, Prof. Hansen, Prof. Messerle

SFB 621

“Pathobiology of the Intestinal Mucosa”

Duration:
2002 – 2013
Speaker:
Prof. Förster
Funding:
DFG

Prof. Förster, Prof. Hühn, Prof. Prinz

KFO 250

“Genetic and Cellular Mechanisms of Autoimmune Disease”

Duration:
2010 – 2016
Speaker:
Prof. Förster
Funding:
DFG

Prof. Förster, Prof. Hühn, Prof. Werfel, Prof. Witte

VISTRIE

Duration:
2011 – 2016
Speaker:
Prof. Čičin-Šain
Funding:
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren

Prof. Kalinke, Prof. Messerle

COALITION

“Communities allied in Infection”

Duration:
2016-2018
Speaker:
Prof. Schulz
Funding:
Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony

Prof. Kalinke, Prof. Messerle

German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)

Research area:  „Infections of the immunocompromised Host“ – Schwerpunkt „Developing new antiviral therapies“

Duration:
seit 2011
Coordinator:
Prof. Schulz
Funding:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Prof. Čičin-Šain, Prof. Illig, Prof. Krey, Prof. Messerle, Prof. Pietschmann, Prof. Schulz, Prof. Sodeik