Leibniz Prize Winners 2007 Announced (Medical News Today, 18 December 2006)

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) has announced the winners of its 2007 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany’s most highly endowed research award. For the first time, the prize winners for 2007 will receive up to 2.5 million euros (previously: 1.55 million euros) and be able to use these funds flexibly over a period of seven years (previously: five years) to finance their research. One of the 129 nominations included Prof. Dr. Jens Claus Bruning (40), Endocrinology, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, who received 2.5 million euros. With his research on the genetic manipulation of mice, Jens Claus Bruning has pioneered a number of breakthroughs in molecular diabetes research.

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