Happy about the success (from left): Peter Hillemanns, MHH President Michael Manns, the two award winners Dr. Mark Schmitt and Hinrich Abken, Minister of Science Falko Mohrs and Siegfried Piepenbrock, Förderstiftung MHH plus. Copyright: Karin Kaiser / MHH
Happy about the success ( from left ): Peter Hillemanns, MHH President Michael Manns, the two award winners Dr. Mark Schmitt and Hinrich Abken, Minister of Science Falko Mohrs and Siegfried Piepenbrock, Förderstiftung MHH plus. Copyright: Karin Kaiser / MHH The MHH plus foundation honours Hinrich Abken and Dr. Mark Schmitt. Status: 20 June 2023 The Johann Georg Zimmermann Research Award and the Johann Georg Zimmermann Medal are among the highest awards for merit in cancer research in Germany. The Förderstiftung MHH plus awarded the prizes on Monday, 19 June 2023, at the Hannover Medical School (MHH). MHH President Michael Manns presented the prizes together with the deputy chairman of the foundation, Siegfried Piepenbrock, and in the presence of Lower Saxony's Minister of Science, Falko Mohrs. In his welcoming address, the Minister praised the impressive translational potential of the research awarded here. "Although they are at very different stages in their scientific careers, the award winners embody modern and powerful oncology that uses state-of-the-art technology to identify new patterns and mechanisms and develop application perspectives." The Johann Georg Zimmermann Medal was awarded to Hinrich Abken, Director at the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy and Chair of Gene Immunotherapy at the University of Regensburg, for his services to the immunotherapy of oncological diseases.
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