This year, immunologist Thomas Boehm will receive the Heinrich Wieland Prize endowed with 100,000 euros.
As the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation announced on Monday in Mainz, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg will be honored for his research on the immune system of vertebrates.
Mainz / Munich - "Boehm has researched how the immune system of vertebrates has developed, how it is established in the course of life and even how it affects our choice of partner," was the explanation given.
“He has repeatedly made groundbreaking and surprising discoveries that go far beyond immunology.” He also recently made a discovery that promises new approaches for organ transplants and for people with immune diseases.
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According to the information, Thomas Boehm studied medicine in Frankfurt am Main.
From 1987 to 1991 he conducted research at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge in England, and since 1998 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg.
He has already received several awards for his research results.
The Heinrich Wieland Prize will be presented on October 21.
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