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The Hansen Family Award

For natural scientist and certified management assistant Dr. Kurt Hansen (1910 – 2002), support for research in the fields of science and medicine were of central importance. Hansen, who served as Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer AG from 1962 to 1974, was chiefly responsible for the restructuring of the Bayer Group and succeeded in further expanding the company’s international position, particularly outside of Europe.
In 1999 he established the € 75,000 Hansen Family Award, which since 2000 has been presented every two years to young, medically oriented scientists and medical experts in Germany in alternation with the Otto Bayer Award. The Hansen Family Award recognizes groundbreaking research in innovative scientific and medical fields, and particularly projects dedicated to the exploration of new therapeutic approaches in cardiology, oncology and gynecology.
Hansen Family Award The current focus is on:
 
  • Human biology
  • Human genetics
  • Active substance research
  • Red biotechnology and genetic engineering
  • Cell physiology
  • Structural biology

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    The winners of the prize
    2009 Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
    2007 Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz
    Institute for Stem-cell research, Neuherberg
     Click here to read the research article The brain as a source of neurons – Professor Magdalena Götz honored with the Hansen Family Prize
    2005 Privatdozent Dr. Rüdiger Klein
    Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried
     News release (PDF 67 KB)
    2002 Prof. Dr. Ralf Baumeister
    Albert-Ludwig University of Fribourg
    Prof. Dr. Christian Haass
    Ludwig Maximilians University of Munic
    2000 Prof. Dr. Thomas J. Jentsch
    Molecular Neurobiology Center, Hamburg
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    Hansen Family Award goes to DNA researcher
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