3 / 2022 // LEOPOLDINA / NEWS 15
lar Biology and Cell Biology Section , was appointed as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization ( EMBO ) ( Heidelberg / Germany ).
Peter Rehling ML , member of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section , was appointed as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization ( EMBO ) ( Heidelberg / Germany ).
Christoph M . Schmidt ML , member of the Economics and Empirical Social Sciences Section , was awarded the Innovation Prize of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the honorary award category .
Nicola A . Spaldin ML , member of the Chemistry Section , received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics from the Joachim Herz Foundation ( Hamburg / Germany ).
Michael Struwe ML , member of the Mathematics Section , was awarded the Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner Science Prize ( Leipzig , Dresden , Berlin , Stuttgart / Germany ).
Sebastian Thrun ML , member of the Informatics Section , was named “ Pioneer of the Year ” for 2022 by the Pioneer Forum run by financial consulting company Plansecur ( Kassel / Germany ).
Lothar H . Wieler ML , member of the Global Health Section , was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Veterinary Medicine Department at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / Germany .
Peter Zoller ML , member of the Physics Section , was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art , First Class .
New class I members
Leigh Royden ML , Cambridge / USA , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Earth Sciences Section
New class II members
Andrea Ablasser ML , Lausanne / Switzerland , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ( EPFL ), Microbiology and Immunology Section
Sonja-Verena Albers ML , Freiburg im Breisgau /
Germany , University of Freiburg , Genetics / Molecular Biology and Cell Biology Section
Wulf Amelung ML , Bonn / Germany , University of Bonn , Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences Section
Michael Boutros ML , Heidelberg / Germany , German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association , Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine Section
Kai-Uwe Eckardt ML , Berlin / Germany , Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin / Germany , Physiology and Pharmacology / Toxicology Section
Ivo Feussner ML , Göttingen / Germany , Georg-August- University of Göttingen , Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Section
Robert Grosse ML , Freiburg im Breisgau / Germany , University of Freiburg , Physiology and Pharmacology / Toxicology Section
Helmut Grubmüller ML , Göttingen / Germany , Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences , Biochemistry and Biophysics Section
Claudia Höbartner ML , Würzburg / Germany , Julius- Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg ( JMU ), Biochemistry and Biophysics Section
Katalin Karikó ML , Mainz / Germany , BioNTech SE , Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine Section
Andreas Peschel ML , Tübingen / Germany , University of Tübingen , Microbiology and Immunology Section
Hans-Georg Rammensee ML , Tübingen / Germany , University of Tübingen , Microbiology and Immunology Section
Tina Romeis ML , Halle ( Saale )/ Germany , Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry , Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Section
Rotem Sorek ML , Rehovot / Israel , Weizmann Institute of Science , Genetics / Molecular Biology and Cell Biology Section
Alexandra Zoe Worden ML , Kiel / Germany , GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel , Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Section