Award ceremony
Portrait Prof. Dr. Volker Haucke
Photo: David Ausserhofer
Portrait Dr. Agnes Toth Petroczy
Photo: Katrin Boes, MPI-CBG
Ernst Schering Prize 2025 & Schering Young Investigator Award 2025
Festive Award Ceremony in honor of Volker Haucke and Agnes Toth-Petroczy
Date:
November 24, 2025, 5–8 p.m.
Venue:
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leibniz-Saal
Markgrafenstr. 38,
10117 Berlin
Admission starts at 4:45 p.m.
Participation by registration only. See below
On November 24, 2025, 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 2025 to Volker Haucke is honored his pathbreaking research on signaling lipids, which revolutionizes our understanding of cellular processes and enables new therapies for cancer and neuronal diseases. The prize comes with a prize money of 50,000 euro.
The Schering Stiftung awards the Young Investigator Award 2025 for the first time to Dr. Agnes Toth-Petroczy for her outstanding work on the evolution, diversity, and function of proteins – especially those that are still largely unexplored. The research award comes with a prize money of 10,000 euros.
Program
5:00 p.m.
Ernst Schering Prize Lecture 2025
Prof. Dr. Volker Haucke
Lipid Control of Membrane Dynamics in Health and Disease (in German)
Break
6:00 p.m.
Award Ceremony
Welcome
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Max Löhning
Chairman of the Foundation Council of the Schering Stiftung, Berlin
Schering Young Investigator Award 2025
Lecture by Laureate
Dr. Agnes Toth-Petroczy
Disordered Proteins in Evolution and Disease
Presentation Speech
Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Prize Presentation
Ernst Schering Prize 2025
Conversation between Laureate Volker Haucke and
Detlev Ganten, Founder of the Virchow Foundation
Prize Presentation
Newsletter
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