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Winners of the Ernst Schering Prize and Friedmund Neumann Prize 2024

Winners of the Ernst Schering Prize and Friedmund Neumann Prize 2024
Photo: J. Adam Fenster, University of Rochester / Bettina Engel-Albustin, Fotoagentur Ruhr moers

Ernst Schering Prize 2024 & Friedmund Neumann Prize 2024

Festive Award Ceremony in honor of Maiken Nedergaard and Carolin Schneider

Winners of the Ernst Schering Prize and Friedmund Neumann Prize 2024
Photo: J. Adam Fenster, University of Rochester / Bettina Engel-Albustin, Fotoagentur Ruhr moers

Ernst Schering Prize 2024 & Friedmund Neumann Prize 2024

Festive Award Ceremony in honor of Maiken Nedergaard and Carolin Schneider

Date:

November 12, 2024

Venue:

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leibniz-Saal
Markgrafenstr. 38,
10117 Berlin

Admission starts at 4:30 p.m.

Participation by registration only. See below


On November 12, 2024, the Schering Stiftung awards its two prestigious science prizes for pioneering basic research in medicine, biology, and chemistry in Berlin.

The Schering Stiftung awards the Ernst Schering Prize 2024 to Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.is honored for her discovery of the glymphatic system, which effectively removes toxins from the brain. Her innovative research reveals promising new pathways for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The prize comes with a prize money of 50,000 euro.

The Schering Stiftung awards the Friedmund Neumann Prize 2024 to Prof. Dr. med. Carolin Schneider for her outstanding contributions to the prevention and therapy of gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases. Special mention was made of her innovative use of big data and artificial intelligence to develop personalized prevention strategies for metabolic diseases. The research award comes with a prize money of 10,000 euros.

Program

5:00 p.m.
Ernst Schering Prize Lecture 2024

Maiken Nedergaard
The Glymphatic System

Break

6:00 p.m.
Award Ceremony

Welcome
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Max Löhning
Chairman of the Foundation Council of the Schering Stiftung, Berlin

Friedmund Neumann Prize 2024 

Lecture by Laureate
Carolin Schneider
Using Digital Innovation to Prevent Metabolic Diseases

Presentation Speech
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Pavel Strnad

Prize Presentation

Ernst Schering Prize 2024

Conversation between Laureate Maiken Nedergaard and
Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Dirnagl

Prize Presentation

 

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Simon Berz is a drummer and sound artist based in Berlin. Berz combines music, sound art, and performance, and performs in both urban and natural settings. Berz has received multiple awards and has worked with notable artists like Apparat and Toshinori Kondo.

As founder and director of the BADABUM Atelier Music School in Zug, Switzerland, Berz promotes creative education and organizes inclusive public drumming events.

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Carolin Schneider 

Maiken Nedergaard 

Prize winner

The physician receives the Friedmund Neumann Prize 2024 for her outstanding contributions to the prevention and therapy of gastrointestinal and metabolic diseases.

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Prize winner

The Ernst Schering Prize 2024 is awarded to Maiken Nedergaard for the discovery of the glymphatic system.

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