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Bonn / Saarbrücken (dpa / lrs) - Saarland scientist Rolf Müller is one of the ten winners of the renowned Leibniz Prize 2021. The 55-year-old is director of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland and professor at Saarland University.
He conducts research in the field of natural products and biomedical microbiology.
The award, which comes with prize money of 2.5 million euros for each winner, goes to two researchers from the humanities and social sciences, the natural sciences and the engineering sciences and four from the life sciences, as the German Research Foundation (DFG) said on Thursday in Bonn announced.
Because of the corona pandemic, the most important German research award will be awarded in a virtual setting on March 15, 2021.
The researchers can use the prize money for their work for up to seven years without any bureaucratic effort.
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The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize has been awarded annually by the DFG since 1986.
Including the award for 2021, 388 Leibniz Prizes have been awarded since then.
Nine winners later received the Nobel Prize, including this year's Nobel Prize winners Emmanuelle Charpentier (chemistry) and Reinhard Genzel (physics).
Saar Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) congratulated Müller on the award.
"At the moment, Professor Müller's outstanding research is helping to achieve important advances in the fight against diseases," he said.
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