Mann wins Körber Award for work in proteomics

Matthias Mann from the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Germany has been awarded the prestigious Körber European Science Prize for his work on the proteome. He will be presented with the award and the accompanying endowment of 750,000 euros on 7 September 2012 in the Great Ceremonial Hall of Hamburg's City Hall.

The Körber Prize "honours outstanding and excellent scientists working in Europe and is awarded to research projects that show great potential for possible application and international impact." In Mann's case. it recognises his ongoing pursuit of the human proteome using mass spectrometry methods which he has developed.

The award comes after Mann gained the 2012 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine and the 2012 Liebniz Prize for his work on developments in mass spectrometry in proteomics. 

About the Körber Award

The Körber Foundation honors scientists working on particularly innovative research projects. Committees consisting of excellent, European scientists choose probable candidates and submit them to the Board of Trustees for the final decision. Together with 750,000 Euros, the award is presented to the prize winner in the Great Festival Room of the Town Hall in Hamburg. In 2006, another MPIB director, F.-Ulrich Hartl, received the award.