{"id":1260,"date":"2021-05-22T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/?page_id=1260"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:50:16","slug":"the-lennart-philipson-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/community\/recognitions\/the-lennart-philipson-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lennart Philipson Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-3\"><div class=\"vf-grid__col--span-2\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nominations and applications for the 2026 Lennart Philipson Award are open now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Award recognises outstanding and validated contributions in translational research and\/or technology innovation across the complete spectrum of life sciences. The award is open to all EMBL alumni irrespective of leaving date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"vf-tabs\"><ul class=\"vf-tabs__list\" data-vf-js-tabs=\"true\"><li class=\"vf-tabs__item\"><a class=\"vf-tabs__link\" href=\"#vf-tabs__section-042dab01-46dc-4f7c-b5f5-077b2729ffe6\" data-vf-js-location-nearest-activation-target=\"\">About the award<\/a><\/li><li class=\"vf-tabs__item\"><a class=\"vf-tabs__link\" href=\"#vf-tabs__section-c1acb3eb-8083-48a2-bc3c-e5cf4ae9bcb8\" data-vf-js-location-nearest-activation-target=\"\">Criteria for nominations<\/a><\/li><li class=\"vf-tabs__item\"><a class=\"vf-tabs__link\" href=\"#vf-tabs__section-541683b5-88eb-4da6-a929-de4fe21f1e9b\" data-vf-js-location-nearest-activation-target=\"\">How to nominate<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"vf-tabs-content\" data-vf-js-tabs-content=\"true\">\n<section class=\"vf-tabs__section\" id=\"vf-tabs__section-042dab01-46dc-4f7c-b5f5-077b2729ffe6\"><h2>About the award<\/h2>\n<p>The Lennart Philipson Award (LPA) was created to honour EMBL\u2019s second Director General, Lennart Philipson (1982-1993). The award has been given once per annum starting in 2015 by the EMBL Alumni Association. It is sponsored by EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH (EMBLEM), the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of EMBL responsible for knowledge and technology transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Award recognises outstanding and validated contributions in translational research and\/or technology innovation across the complete spectrum of life sciences. This includes for example: deciphering human disease models; developing new diagnostic tools, methods or therapies; development of broad enabling technologies in life sciences (plasmids, strains, human disease-relevant animal-models, screening and production systems); instrumentation development; and bioinformatics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award is open to all EMBL alumni irrespective of leaving date. It consists of a gold-plated medal, a cash prize of \u20ac15,000 and the logistical costs of bringing the winner to EMBL Heidelberg to present a talk at the Award Ceremony on EMBL Lab Day\/ World Alumni Day.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"vf-tabs__section\" id=\"vf-tabs__section-c1acb3eb-8083-48a2-bc3c-e5cf4ae9bcb8\"><h2>Criteria for nominations<\/h2>\n<p>The award is open to junior and senior EMBL alumni alike irrespective of when they left EMBL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work described in the nomination needs to have predominantly been done by the nominee, either as the \u201cbench scientist\u201d or as principal investigator or entail a personal, scientific contribution in the area recognised by the LPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work can entail results obtained during the nominee\u2019s time at EMBL and\/or thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other areas to consider when selecting LPA nominations are the breadth of the innovation.&nbsp;New technologies that are taken up by diverse laboratories across a range of research fields would be very strong examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PCR,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhanced gene sequencing,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gene microarrays,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Continuing development of improved microscopy,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CRISPR \/ Cas.2.&nbsp;Direct links to societal benefits.&nbsp;The most obvious examples are major contributions to novel drugs to treat previously poorly treated conditions. Examples to illustrate this include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022&nbsp;Significant contributions to the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies or other drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondary Factors to Distinguish Between Strong but Diverse Applications include<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is there secured IPR protection?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For therapeutic innovation, is there proof of concept in clinical evaluation?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For technology innovation, how has the technology been dispersed? (e.g. has it been licensed to an industrial partner? How has the uptake by others been facilitated?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that joint nominations cannot be considered and if the nomination is unsuccessful in a given year, it can be resubmitted in subsequent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DORA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EMBL supports fair and responsible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/info\/dora\/\">research assessment<\/a>, which includes its alumni awards processes. We recognise a range of research outputs including publications, open data sets, databases, code, software, pre-prints, patents, commercial products, instruments, clinical practice developments, educational products, policy publications, and any other relevant outputs. We discourage inappropriate use of proxies such as journal impact factors, and value research outputs based on their intrinsic merit. EMBL is a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). In light of this, reviewers should be mindful of the range of research outputs presented as part of the review material. Reviewers are required to assess research outputs by their intrinsic merit, and to consider their relevance for the advancement of science. For more details see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/info\/dora\/\">https:\/\/www.embl.org\/info\/dora\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"vf-tabs__section\" id=\"vf-tabs__section-541683b5-88eb-4da6-a929-de4fe21f1e9b\"><h2>How to nominate<\/h2>\n<p>Nominations for the 2026 Lennart Philipson Award are now open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make a nomination, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/MTLDZLL\">complete the nomination form<\/a> by 31st August 2025. The Alumni Relations team will contact your nominee with further steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To self-nominate, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/MT9MHPC\">complete the Data Form for Candidates<\/a> by 30th September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"240\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/530x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/530x240.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/530x240-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-3\"><div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">List of recipients<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-3\"><div class=\"vf-grid__col--span-2\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"154\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Stephen-Cusack_CROP-modified.png\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2026 recipient: Stephen Cusack      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Head of\u00a0 EMBL Grenoble, 1989 -2022<br \/>\n2026: Emeritus, EMBl \/ Visiting Professor of Structural Biology, Oxford University, Dunn School of Pathology<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">\u201cIt is a great honour to receive the Lennart Philipson Award. When Lennart Philipson was the Director General, one could wander into his office for a chat without an appointment. We had a common interest in the adenovirus receptor binding protein, and this became the first of my fundamental structural biology projects that unwittingly led us along the translational path towards innovative biomedical applications. Others were the development of antibiotics targeting pathogen aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and antivirals targeting the influenza virus, each adding extra spice into my idiosyncratic mix of basic and applied structural biology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/awards-honours\/announcing-the-2026-embl-alumni-award-recipients\/\">Announcement of winner: March 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lennart-Philipson-Award-recipient-Florent-Ciprian_Alumni-Awards_CROP.png\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2025 recipient: Florent Cipriani      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Head of Instrumentation, EMBL Grenoble, 1991 -2020<br \/>\n2025: Retired<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">\u201cI spent nearly 30 years in Grenoble developing beamline instruments to help structural biologists carry out their most challenging projects. In the early \u201890s, at the newly built ESRF crystallography beamlines, several hours were necessary to collect an X-ray diffraction data set. Today, it only takes a few seconds, and beamlines can operate in a pipeline with our automated crystal harvesting system. It is a great honour to see our work awarded. I am particularly grateful to Stephen Cusack for his trust and support over the years, and to EMBLEM for its key contribution in making our instruments available to the global scientific community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/awards-honours\/announcing-the-2025-embl-alumni-award-recipients\/\">Announcement of winner: February 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/rsz_giulio-superti-furga-_c_-franzi-kreis_cemm_3_FINA-modified.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2024 recipient: Giulio Superti-Furga      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Team Leader, Developmental Biology, 1991 -2004<br \/>\n2024: Scientific Director and Research Group Leader at the Research Centre for Molecular Medicine (CeMM), Vienna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">&#8220;When I came to EMBL in 1991, I met Lennart Philipson, a true mentor who would share advice over walks, pipe in hand. EMBL, for me, has been a beacon of inspiration and support. This spirit has driven my work in community building and translational research at Cellzome, CeMM, startups in Vienna, and with EU-LIFE. It&#8217;s the backbone of my future projects in Sicily. The joy of discovery and the commitment to making a real impact in precision medicine are legacies of my EMBL experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/alumni\/2024-embl-alumni-award-recipients-announced\/\">Announcement of winner: March 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/embl.mediasite.com\/Mediasite\/Play\/277fcfe54e484e96887556de2bc252e61d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Alumni Awards Ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img2.thejournal-modified.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2023 recipient: Desmond Higgins      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Group Leader, EMBL-EBI, 1990-1996<br \/>\n2023: Professor of Bioinformatics, University College Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">\u201cI spent 35 years working on sequence alignment methods. The environment at EMBL gave me the opportunity to develop this work and to collaborate with Toby Gibson and Julie Thompson to make Clustal W and Clustal X.\u00a0 It is over 30 years since I first met Lennart Philipson at EMBL and it is a great honour to receive the award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/alumni\/embl-alumni-awards-announced-for-2023\/\">Announcement of winner: March 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mediasite.embl.de\/Mediasite\/Play\/5dace51b0dba488f90bacb8b5f7892411d\">Watch Alumni Awards Ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/00_Courtneidge_2022.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2022 recipient: Sara Courtneidge      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Group Leader, Developmental Biology, 1985-1994<br \/>\n2022: Professor, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">\u201cAt EMBL, we studied the Src family of tyrosine kinases, which are cellular oncogenes,\u201d Courtneidge said. \u00a0\u201cWanting to learn and contribute more directly to translational cancer research, I then joined SUGEN, a biotech company focused on defining the kinome, and developing kinases inhibitors. Even when I returned to the non-profit sector, I maintained a commitment to translational research, and also support and advise others in this arena. I am deeply appreciative of the support from EMBL which facilitated my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/alumni\/2022-embl-alumni-award-winners-announced\/\">Announcement of winner: June 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mediasite.embl.de\/Mediasite\/Play\/64e53bd7ce0d4e2689cb028838470e971d\">Watch Alumni Awards Ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ken-Holmes.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2021 recipient: Kenneth Holmes      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Head of EMBL Hamburg, 1975-1977<br \/>\n2021: Retired, Heidelberg (Former MPI Director)<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">&#8220;We needed a stronger x-ray source that could record a muscle contracting. I had read Julius Schwinger\u2019s work on the theory of Synchrotron Radiation. DESY in Hamburg was setting up such an electron ring. Gerd Rosenbaum and I carried out an experiment at DESY using synchrotron radiation to get diffraction from a muscle specimen. This worked, and we were delighted when Sir John Kendrew and EMBL decided to support the project. DESY encouraged us to set up a bunker (bunker 2) for X-ray experiments on biological samples. Bunker 2 was the beginning of what would become the first EMBL Outstation.\u00a0It is a great honour to have been presented with the Lennart Philipson award for the work that was carried out by Gerd Rosenbaum and myself 50 years ago in Hamburg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/alumni\/embl-alumni-awards-2021\/\">Announcement of winner: April 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mediasite.embl.de\/Mediasite\/Play\/04368601d7564b74a69cb191def98b691d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch Alumni Awards Ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/44_oost_155X174.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2020 recipient: John van der Oost      <\/h3>\n  <div class=\"main_column_right_155px\">\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Postdoc, Saraste Group, Structural and Computational Biology, 1990-1992.<br \/>\n2020: Professor, Wageningen University &amp; Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">&#8220;While studying anti-virus defense strategies of bacteria, my team discovered that CRISPR-Cas and Argonaute systems target DNA, that their specificity can easily be adjusted, and that they can be functionally transplanted to other organisms. This is a beautiful example of the rapid translation of a bacterial genetics project to genome editing applications, ranging from biotechnology to human gene therapy. I feel privileged to have participated in this adventure. Moreover, thirty years after meeting Lennart Philipson at EMBL, it is a great honor to receive the award with his name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/alumni\/2020-embl-alumni-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Announcement of winner: March 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oc.embl.de\/index.php\/s\/1ixed93pmmb1nLX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Alumni Awards Ceremony<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/45_baeuerle_155_174.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2019 recipient: Patrick Baeuerle      <\/h3>\n  <div class=\"main_column_right_155px\">\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Predoc, Huttner Group, Cell Biology and Biophysics, 1986-1987.<br \/>\n2019: Executive Partner, MPM Capital, Cambridge MA, USA<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">\u201cOur own T cells have a unique potential to cure cancer. I was fortunate to help develop a novel therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia that works by enabling a patient\u2019s T lymphocytes to connect to its cancer cells and kill them in a unique fashion. This drug is called Blincyto and is on the market since 2015. It contributes to a recent revolution in cancer therapy referred to as immuno-oncology. I highly appreciate the role EMBL played in my career path ultimately making me a drug developer and serial entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a title=\"2019 Alumni Awards\" href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/aboutus\/alumni\/news\/news_2019\/20190201_awards\/index.html\">Announcement of winner: February 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/46_defrancesco_155x174.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2018 recipient: Raffaele De Francesco      <\/h3>\n  <div class=\"main_column_right_155px\">\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Postdoc, Cortese Group, Genome Biology, 1988-1990.<br \/>\n2018: Head of Virology, Institute for Molecular Genetics, Milan, Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">\u201cIn the early \u201890s, the inability to propagate HCV in the laboratory was seen as a major obstacle to the identification of specific antivirals. Our discoveries of the NS3\/4A protease and NS5B polymerase allowed the scientific community to start looking for inhibitors of these key viral enzymes long before we were able to work with the actual virus. The time I spent as a postdoc at EMBL, surrounded by great scientists working in a highly collaborative spirit, was very inspiring and taught me how to always use a multidisciplinary approach to address complex scientific problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/blog\/2018\/03\/2018-lennart-philipson-award\/\">Announcement of winner: March 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/47_MatthiasMann_155_174.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2017 recipient: Matthias Mann      <\/h3>\n  <div class=\"main_column_right_155px\">\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Group Leader, Instrumentation, 1992-1998.<br \/>\n2017: Director, Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany and<br \/>\nProgram Director, the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">\u201cMass spectrometry has become an indispensable tool in molecular biology and this could not have happened without the fantastic environment at EMBL. My group greatly benefited from the unique concentration of skills, resources, personalities and ambition that characterised the place then and now. I am very happy that we succeeded in making first mass spectrometry and then proteomics a viable part of the tool kit for biologists and I am especially grateful for Lennart Philipson\u2019s unwavering support of this initially exotic technology and of our group. \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/blog\/2017\/07\/2017-lennart-philipson-award\/\">Announcement of winner: March 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/48_ErnstStelzer_155_174.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2016 recipient: Ernst Stelzer      <\/h3>\n  <div class=\"main_column_right_155px\">\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Group Leader, Cell Biology and Biophysics, 1983-2011.<br \/>\n2016: Professor in the Life Sciences Department (FB15, IZN) and the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (BMLS) at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">&#8220;Light sheet-based fluorescence microscopy is the result of more than 25 years of hard work. It is also an excellent story of a suitable environment that can apply results of research in physics. As a member of several Units, I saw the limits of \u201cflat biology\u201d, the challenges of maintaining a specimen\u2019s three-dimensionality and the necessity for time-lapse imaging. But, I also had the resources to tackle challenges in a biological manner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/blog\/2016\/01\/jop-kind-ernst-stelzer\/\">Announcement of winner: January 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/49-JaquesDubochet_155_174.jpg\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          2015 recipient: Jacques Dubochet      <\/h3>\n  <div class=\"main_column_right_155px\">\n<div class=\"main_column_right_\">\n<div class=\"main_column_right_155px\">\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">EMBL: Group Leader, Structural and Computational Biology, 1978-1987.<br \/>\n2015: Retired, Former Professor at University of Lausanne, Morges, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\">&#8220;The basic work was done 30 years ago, at that time we had 35\u00c5 resolution. People said it was blobology. Then others made big progresses in data processing and instrumentation. Now, I am retired and they get 3.5\u00c5 atomic resolution and the method has become very important. For me, it&#8217;s very rewarding, interesting and enjoyable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"vf-summary__text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/blog\/2015\/07\/2015-lennart-philipson-award\/?preview_id=15462&amp;preview_nonce=ecb3f51de2&amp;preview=true&amp;_thumbnail_id=15466\">Announcement of winner: December 2014<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/events\/embl-world-alumni-day\/alumni-awards-ceremony-2015\/\">Poster &#8211; Awards Ceremony, 10 July 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-1\"><div class=\"vf-grid__col--span-3\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-1\"><div class=\"vf-grid__col--span-3\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-1\"><div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":842,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-title-left-aligned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-1260","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49263,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260\/revisions\/49263"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}