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Prestigious award for measuring the forces that drive cell divison

The 60,000 euro Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young
Researchers 2011 will be awarded to the biophysicist Stephan Grill, joint research group leader at the MPI-CBG and the MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.

Grill is awarded the prize for his contributions to measure the forces that drive cell division in living cells.

The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize is among the most prestigious international prizes awarded in the Federal Republic of Germany in the field of medicine. The award ceremony will take place at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt on March 14, 2011, the birthday of Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915).

Within three years, the MPI-CBG got two of the prestigious prizes: Eckhard Lammert won the Young Researchers Prize in 2008 for better understanding diabetes.

Congratulations from all of us to Stephan Grill for this great award!

read press release by the Paul Ehrlich Foundation