Robert Koch Medal and Award explained

The Robert Koch Medal and Award are two prizes awarded annually by the German for excellence in the biomedical sciences. These awards grew out of early attempts by German physician Robert Koch to generate funding to support his research into the cause and cure for tuberculosis. Koch discovered the bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) responsible for the dreaded disease and rapidly acquired international support, including 500,000 gold marks from the Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

The Robert Koch Prize

Since 1970, the Robert Koch Foundation has awarded prizes for major advances in the biomedical sciences, particularly in the fields of microbiology and immunology. The prestige of this award has grown over the past decades so that it is now widely regarded as the leading international scientific prize in microbiology. As has been described by a jury member for the prize, the committee often asks, "What would Robert Koch work on today?” to decide on research that should be granted recognition.

The more specific Robert Koch Prize is commonly considered one of the stepping-stones (along with other prizes such as the Lasker Award) to eventual Nobel Prize recognition for scientists in the fields of microbiology and immunology, and a number of Robert Koch Prize winners subsequently became Nobel laureates, such as César Milstein, Susumu Tonegawa and Harald zur Hausen. Other notable awardees include Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk and John Enders for their pioneering work on the development of polio vaccines. Only Enders was recognized with a Nobel Prize, together with Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins.

Two separate Robert Koch Awards are presented annually: The Gold Robert Koch Gold Medal for accumulated excellence in biomedical research and the Robert Koch Prize, worth €120,000, for a major discovery in biomedical science.

Robert Koch Prize Winners since 1960

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Robert Koch Gold Medal winners since 1974

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  2. Web site: Home. Robert-Koch-Stiftung. 28 November 2021.
  3. Web site: Robert-Koch-Preis . Deutsches Ärzteblatt . 23 November 2007 . de . 28 November 2021.
  4. Web site: Robert Koch-Preis für Ralf Bartenschlager . Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina . 25 September 2021 . de . 28 November 2021.
  5. Web site: Popp . Doris . Verleihung des Robert-Koch-Preises 2018 und der Robert-Koch-Medaille in Gold . LABORPRAXIS . 19 November 2018 . de . 28 November 2021.
  6. Web site: Robert-Koch-Preis 2020 für Shimon Sakaguchi . RCI Regensburger Centrum für Interventionelle Immunologie . 16 November 2020 . de . 28 November 2021.
  7. Web site: Mrusek . Von Marco . Robert-Koch-Preis 2021 geht an die Professoren Belkaid und Bäumler . AerzteZeitung.de . 31 October 2021 . de . 28 November 2021.
  8. Web site: Robert-Koch-Preis 2021 . Management-Krankenhaus . 28 November 2021 . de . 28 November 2021.
  9. Web site: UCI professor wins prestigious Robert Koch Prize for groundbreaking research . UCI News . 27 April 2022 . 7 May 2022.
  10. https://www.robert-koch-stiftung.de/aktuelle-presse-informationen Robert Koch Preis 2022
  11. https://www.robert-koch-stiftung.de/en/media/press-releases Robert Koch Preis 2023
  12. https://www.robert-koch-stiftung.de/aktuelle-presse-informationen
  13. Web site: Ehemaliger Leopoldina-Präsident Jörg Hacker erhält Robert-Koch-Medaille in Gold . Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina . 29 April 2022 . de . 7 May 2022.

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