The “Hygiene Prize 2018” awarded by the Rudolf Schülke Foundation
22. Feb 2018
On behalf of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation the Hygiene Prize was awarded by the chairman of the executive committee, Professor Martin Exner, MD, in Hamburg on 9 February 2018.
Alexander Zipperer, Martin Exner ( Chairman Rudolf Schülke Foundation), Bernhard Krismer
This year, the Rudolf-Schülke-Stiftung awarded its renowned hygiene prize of €15,000 to the research team.of Dr. Bernhard Krismer, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Peschel and Dr. Alexander Zipperer, Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin Tübingen (IMIT),for their excellent and innovative work „Human commensals producing a novel antibiotic impair pathogen colonization“ (Nature 2016;535:511-516). This work on the novel antibiotic active ingredient Lugdunin was unanimously selected for the prize by the jury from the 22 first-class publications submitted.
The Rudolf Schülke Foundation awards the Hygiene Prize biennially to scientists who have achieved remarkable solutions to problems in the area of hygiene, microbiology and preventive medicine.
The "Hygieia Medal 2018" awarded by the Rudolf Schülke Foundation
Along with the Hygiene Prize the Foundation awards the Hygieia Medal every two years. This medal is intended to honour those people who have devoted their lives’ work to hygiene and microbiology.
This year it was awarded to Philippe Hartemann, Professor for Public Health.
