SELECTED AWARDS
1990 Award of the Heidelberg Society for Molecular Biology for the best Ph.D. thesis
1996 Organon Research Award
1997 Award of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
2000 International Alois Alzheimer Award
2002 Family Hansen Award
2002 Ernst Jung Award for Medicine
2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2002 Potamkin Award of the American Academy of Neurology
2006 MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research
2006 "Sheik Hamdan Award for Medical Sciences"(in the category Biology of Aging)
2006 Dittner Award for Alzheimer Research
2010 Honorary Degree of the University of Zurich
2012 ERC advanced grant