The Otto Warburg Medal is awarded annually by the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (German: Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie or GBM) to honour scientists who have contributed important work in the field of biological chemistry. It is named after Otto Warburg, a renowned German physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate. It was first awarded on his 80th birthday on 8 October 1963.[1]
As of 2025, ten Warburg Medal recipients have also been awarded the Nobel Prize.
Medallists
Source: GBM
- 1963 – Feodor Lynen
1964 - 1965 – Kurt Mothes
- 1968 – Michael Sela
- 1969 – Hans Adolf Krebs 1953 & Carl Martius
- 1972 – Ernst Klenk
- 1973 – Hans Leo Kornberg
- 1974 – Theodor Bücher
- 1975 – Helmut Holzer
- 1976 – Heinz-Günter Wittmann
- 1977 – Robert Huber 1988
- 1978 – Wilhelm Stoffel
- 1979 – Lothar Jaenicke
- 1980 – Charles Weissmann
- 1981 – Martin Klingenberg
- 1982 – Rodulf Rott
- 1983 – Günter Blobel 1999
- 1984 – Rudolf K. Thauer
- 1985 – Peter Starlinger
- 1986 – Julius Adler
- 1987 – Shosaku Numa
- 1988 – Gottfried Schatz
- 1989 – Hans Georg Zachau
- 1990 – Horst Tobias Witt
- 1991 – Dieter Oesterhelt
- 1992 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard 1995
- 1993 – Max Perutz 1962
- 1994 – Helmut Beinert
- 1995 – August Böck
- 1996 – Walter Jakob Gehring
- 1997 – Klaus Weber
- 1998 – Wolfgang Baumeister
- 1999 – Kurt Wüthrich 2002
- 2000 – Walter Neupert
- 2001 – James Rothman 2013
- 2002 – Kurt von Figura
- 2003 – Alfred Wittinghofer
- 2004 – Tom Rapoport
- 2005 – Axel Ullrich
- 2006 – Konrad Sandhoff
- 2007 – Robert Weinberg
- 2008 – Susan Lindquist
- 2009 – Franz-Ulrich Hartl
- 2010 – Ari Helenius
- 2011 – Peter Walter
- 2012 – Alexander Varshavsky
- 2013 – Randy Schekman 2013
- 2014 – Rudolf Jaenisch
- 2015 – Nikolaus Pfanner
- 2016 – Emmanuelle Charpentier 2020
- 2017 – Stefan Jentsch (posthumously) [2]
- 2018 – Peter Hegemann[3]
- 2019 – Marina Rodnina[4]
- 2020 – Patrick Cramer[5]
- 2021 – Petra Schwille[6]
- 2022 – Stefanie Dimmeler[7]
- 2023 – Matthias Mann
- 2024 – Johannes Buchner[8]
- 2025 – Matthias Hentze[9]
- 2026 – Maya Schuldiner
See also
References
- "Otto-Warburg-Medal". GBM. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- "Stefan Jentsch posthumously awarded Otto-Warburg-Medal 2017".
- "Otto-Warburg Medal for Peter Hegemann". 2 March 2018.
- "Otto Warburg Medal 2019 for Prof. Dr. Marina Rodnina – Otto Warburg Medal".
- "Home – Otto Warburg Medal".
- "Max Planck Director Petra Schwille receives Otto Warburg Medal". Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. 15 March 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- "The Otto Warburg Medal 2022 goes to Stefanie Dimmeler". Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (in German). 13 April 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- "Otto-Warburg-Medaille 2024 geht an Johannes Buchner". TUM School of Natural Sciences (in German). 28 May 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
- "Otto-Warburg-Medaille 2025 geht an Matthias Hentze". Nachrichten aus der Wissenschaft » idw (in German). 5 November 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2025.