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JUNG NIGHT AND JUNG SYMPOSIUM 2023
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Dear Sir or Madam
We congratulate our 2023 award winners Professor Türeci, Professor Rose-John (on the right) and Dr Mrestani (on the left). Overlooking the Außenalster at the prestigious Anglo-German Club, we were able to honor them in the exclusive circle of the Jung family for their groundbreaking research. The potential of their work was demonstrated the following day at our third Jung Symposium. Our laureates presented their results and talked about their significance for medicine in a worldwide livestream and in front of a live audience. In summary: Those were two great events for which we would like to thank all participants. |
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AN EVENING IN THE CIRCLE OF THE JUNG FAMILY: THE JUNG NIGHT 2023
Inspiring conversations, emotional speeches and the awarding of three deserving medical personalities: This year's award ceremony at the Anglo-German Club on the Außenalster was a complete success. Not only because we were able to honor our laureates of 2023, but also because we were able to honor them in a personal atmosphere. It was an evening that will certainly be positively remembered by everyone involved for a long time to come. With the award ceremony, it is especially important to us to be able to offer a platform where excellent people from research and medicine can meet and exchange ideas.
Click here for impressions of the Jung Night.
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FIRST TIME WITH LIVE AUDIENCE: THE JUNG SYMPOSIUM 2023
What possibilities do mRNA agents open up for future cancer treatments? How can autoimmune diseases be combated with greater precision? And how do point mutations in the CACNA1A gene influence the onset of epilepsy and migraines? These questions and many more were answered by this year's award winners at the Jung Symposium "Excellent Human Medicine 2023". For the first time, in addition to the worldwide livestream, there was also the possibility of following the presentations while being present: In the Ian K. Karan lecture hall of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. An option that was taken up by many interested parties and which we will therefore continue in 2024.
If you did not manage to watch the lectures live, you can find them here.
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PROF. TÜRECI AWARDED JUNG PRIZE FOR MEDICINE
We are very happy to award this years Jung Prize for Medicine to the physician, scientist and founder Professor Özlem Türeci from BioNTech. She receives the award for her pioneering research into immunology and mRNA technology. Her research not only contributed to the development of the first approved vaccine against COVID-19, but also brought potential new personalised treatments for cancer patients from research into clinical development.
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PROF. ROSE-JOHN HONORED WITH JUNG GOLD MEDAL FOR MEDICINE
With the 2023 Jung Gold Medal for Medicine, the Jung Foundation for Science and Research is honouring one of the most widely recognised and cited German scientists, both within Germany and internationally. Professor Stefan Rose-John, most recently active at the University of Kiel, receives the award for his groundbreaking scientific work on the signalling effect of the interleukin-6 cytokine and the clinical application of his findings in inflammatory medicine and oncology. His research has already facilitated the development of new types of medication and treatment approaches and will enable direct benefits for patients in the future.
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DR. MRESTANI RECEIVES THE JUNG CAREER ADVANCEMENT AWARD
We congratulate Dr Achmed Mrestani from the Clinic and Polyclinic for Neurology at University of Leipzig Medical Center for receiving the Jung Career Advancement Award 2023. With his work, which he has undertaken as a clinician scientist as part of a collaboration between the Neurological Clinic and the Rudolf Schönheimer Institute of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leipzig, the young physician and scientist attracted the attention of the Jung Foundation. He will now receive a total of 210,000 euros over the next three years which he can use to finance his own research project. |
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You can view all the presentations of our award winners here. The laudations of our Board of Trustees and the acceptance speeches of the laureates can be found here. Further information on our laureates can be found here: Dr Achmed Mrestani, Prof. Stefan Rose-John, Prof. Özlem Türeci. |
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CHANGE IN THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
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| Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to Prof. Dr Christian Büchel this year. The director of the Institute for Systemic Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf is stepping down from his activities as the Chairman of our Scientific Advisory Board at the beginning of July, in accordance with our statutes, after two terms of four years each, in order to devote himself to other tasks. We thank him for many years of support and commitment and look forward to welcoming him as part of our Jung family at our events. |
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Prof. Büchel will be succeeded as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board by Prof. Dr Thomas Boehm. He is Director of the Immune System Development Department at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg and has received the Jung Prize for Medicine from us in 2014. The focus of his research includes the evolution of the immune system and the genetic causes of congenital immunodeficiency in humans.
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Prof. Dr Boehm's deputy on the Scientific Advisory Board is Professor Ruth Ley, PhD. In 2018, we awarded her the Jung Prize for Medicine, and she has been part of our Board of Trustees since 2022. Now we are pleased to call the Director of the Department of Microbiome Research at the Max Planck Institute of Biology Tübingen and Managing Director of the Institute Vice Chair of our Scientific Advisory Board.
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THANK YOU AND SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2024
We would like to thank all official actors and of course our guests and our audience. Special thanks also go to the Anglo-German Club and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. We hope that all participants were able to take away a lot of exciting information. It was a pleasure for us to award our laureates and to honor their work.
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Contact
Do you have any suggestions or would you like to support us in our work? We look forward to hearing from you!
+49 40 880 80 51
info@jung-stiftung.de |
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Jung-Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Forschung
Management Verena Strasoldo
Elbchaussee 215
22605 Hamburg
+49 40 880 80 51
info@jung-stiftung.de
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