Christoph Huber preserves Werner-von-Siemens-Ring
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Christoph Huber, vaccination pioneer, co-founder of BioNTech and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of MedUni Vienna, has been awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring 2022. The Werner-von-Siemens Ring is a prestigious German award for personalities who have significantly advanced technical science through their achievements or who have opened up new paths as researchers. The ring was awarded by the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation at a ceremony at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Christoph Huber, together with the BioNTech team consisting of Katalin Karikó, UÄŸur Åžahin and Ézlem Türeci, was awarded for opening up mRNA technology, which has thus provided access to a new era of medical practice. This technology is generally known mainly through vaccines for the protection against corona viruses. However, the potentials - e.g. for cancer therapy and the fight against infectious diseases - are far from exhausted with this. Stefan Hell from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences was also awarded for the development of nano-microscopy, which allows a view of the molecular level in living cells.
