Avery-Landsteiner Award Ceremony
The Avery-Landsteiner Award is the most prestigious award given by the German Society of Immunology. It honours the achievements of internationally outstanding immunologists and is awarded every 2 years.
It was named after Oswald Theodore Avery (1877 – 1955), who provided evidence for the importance of desoxyribonucleic acid as genetic material, and Karl Landsteiner (1868 – 1943), who discovered the AB0 blood system and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1930.
The Avery-Landsteiner prize was initiated by the Behringwerke AG and awarded for the first time in 1973. The company kindly donated the prize every two years in order to honour and support outstanding research in the field of Immunology. This fine tradition was continued by the Centeon Pharma GmbH, by the ZLB Behring GmbH and now by the CSL Behring GmbH as successors of the Behringwerke AG.
The Avery Landsteiner Prize2012 will be awarded to Prof. Alain Fischer (Paris). The Award Ceremony will take place on Friday, September 9th, at 1:00 p.m. in Lomond Auditorium:
13:00 – 13:05 Welcome: Dieter Kabelitz, President DGfI
13:05 – 13:15 Dr. Peer Lotichius, CSL Behring
13:15 – 13:25 Dieter Kabelitz: laudatio in honour of Prof. Alain Fischer
13:25 – 13:40 Alain Fischer: What we have learned from the study of inherited T cell immunodeficiencies
Avery-Landsteiner Laureates:
* 1973: Walter F. Goebel, Rockefeller Univ., New York (USA), Jaques Oudin, Institut Pasteur, Paris (France)
* 1975: Henry G. Kunkel, Rockefeller University, New York (USA)
* 1977: Klaus Rajewsky, Institute for Genetics of the University of Cologne (Germany)
* 1979: César Milstein, Medical Research Council, Cambridge (Great Britain)
* 1981: Susumo Tonegawa, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel (Switzerland)
* 1983: Ion Gresser, Inst. de Recherche Scientifique sur le Cancer, Villejuif (France)
* 1985: Peter Perlmann, University of Stockholm (Sweden)
* 1987: Joe Oppenheim, NIH Washington (USA)
* 1990: Harald von Boehmer, Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel (Schwitzerland)
* 1992: Hans Georg Rammensee, MPI for Biology, Tübingen (Germany)
* 1994: Tim Mosmann, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada)
* 1996: Tadamitsu Kishimoto, University of Osaka (Japan)
* 1998: Peter Krammer, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg (Germany)
* 2000: Hidde Ploegh, Boston (USA)
* 2002: Charles A. Janeway, New Haven (USA)
* 2004: Klas. Kärre, Stockholm (Schweden)
* 2006: Philippa Marrack, University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado (USA)
* 2008: Max Cooper, University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA)
* 2010: Shizuo Akira, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University (Japan)
