Award for Tübingen Alzheimer‘s researcher

Mathias Jucker is awarded this year's "International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation"

Prof. Mathias Jucker from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Tübingen and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH) shares the "International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation" with Maiken Nedergaard from Denmark and Roy Weller from Great Britain. The prize, endowed with 60,000 euros, will be awarded on September 10, 2020 in Cologne.

Award for outstanding research

Since 1990 the "International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation" ─ previously known as  K.J. Zülch Prize ─ is awarded annually for outstanding achievements in basic neurological research. The prize is administered in trust by the Max Planck Society. This year, the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation honors three neuroscientists, Mathias Jucker, Roy Weller and Maiken Nedergaard, who have researched the removal of waste products such as protein deposits from the brain. The researchers' findings offer new starting points for therapies and preventive measures for Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Further reading

• Award for excellence in Alzheimer research, Press release by Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation
• Mathias Jucker erhält internationale Auszeichnung, Press release by HIH (in German only)