Awards and Honours

2012	Marcus Mall was elected as member of the board of directors of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL).
2012	Heiko Runz has received the Leducq Transatlantic Career Development Award for Transatlantic Research in Cardiovascular Disease.
2012	Rohini Kuner has become an ERC Advanced Grantee with "Pain Plasticity". She researches the molecular and cellular basis of structural plasticity and reorganisation in chronic pain.
2012	Matthias Hentze has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant "REM Networks" for exploring the interface between cell metabolism and gene regulation: from mRNA interactomes to REM Networks
2011	Andreas Kulozik becomes member of the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina".
2011	Sven Danckwardt receives Hella-Bühler-Award for his outstanding work in cancer research.
2011	Matthias Hentze was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centenary Institute, Sydney, Australia.
2010	Peer Bork has been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigators Grant 'Cancerbiome' for pioneering research into microbial communities associated with cancer.
2010	Heiko Runz and Rainer Pepperkok become members in the Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence „ Molecular mechanisms of novel genes associated with plasma lipids and cardiovascular disease”.
2010	Matthias Hentze becomes Honorary Faculty Member, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia

2010	Marcus Mall has been nominated as Vice-President of the 34th European Cystic Fibrosis Conference, held in Hamburg Germany, 8-11 June 2011
2010	Matthias Hentze has been named Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board", BioCity Turku, Turku Finland
2010	Matthias Hentze gives "The EMBO Lecture" at the 31st Lorne Genome Conference, February 2010, Lorne Australia
2009	Peer Bork wins Microsoft Award by the Royal Society, Académie des siences
2009	Matthias Hentze has been elected as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin Germany
2009	Martina Muckenthaler has been elected Director of the International Bioiron Society (IBIS)
2009	Marcus Mall receives the Heisenberg-Professorship for Translational Pediatric Pulmonology (DFG)
2009	Marcus Mall receives the Research Award, German Society of Pulmonology
2008	Peer Bork receives Nature Award for creative mentoring by German Research Minister