Prof. Dr. Volker Haucke has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize celebrates its anniversary year by honoring four female and six male scientists. Each recipient will receive €2.5 million. The awards ceremony will take place on March 19 in Berlin.

Professor Dr. Volker Haucke from the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology in Berlin has been awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize for his groundbreaking research on the molecular mechanisms of lipid signaling and synaptic signal transmission in the nervous system.

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize has been awarded annually by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 1986. Each year, up to ten prizes, each worth €2.5 million, can be granted. To date, a total of 428 prizes have been awarded, distributed across various fields: 136 in natural sciences, 126 in life sciences, 101 in humanities and social sciences, and 65 in engineering. Since the prize and its monetary award can be shared in exceptional cases, the total number of recipients exceeds the number of prizes. So far, 455 individuals have been honored, including 377 male and 78 female scientists. (source DFG)