It honours researchers who made significant scientific contributions in their fields and whose work in the future expects to yield pathbreaking findings.

One of the world’s most highly endowed distinctions for research in the field of medicine, the prize amounts to 2.5 million euros. 

Overview of the previous award winners in their fields of research:

Image 2025 - Anastasia Khvorova: RNA-based therapies
Image 2023 - Akiko Iwasaki: Diseases of worldwide significance
EKFP2020_Aiuti 2020 - Alessandro Aiuti: Genome Editing and Gene Therapy
Prize for Medical Research 2017 - Karl Deisseroth: Biological Basis of Psychiatric Disorders 2017 - Karl Deisseroth: Biological Basis of Psychiatric Disorders
Prize for Medical Research 2013 - Ruslan Medzhitov: Immunology 2013 - Ruslan Medzhitov: Immunology

The Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research was presented for the first time in 2013 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Else Kröner’s death. Since then, it has been awarded to four researchers.

In 2025, the Prize will be awarded for outstanding scientific contributions to the field of “RNA-based therapies”. For more information please visit www.ekfprize25.de. If you have any questions on this, please contact us.

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Dr. Alexander Lehmann
Scientific Funding: Graduate and Research Schools and International Research Prize
a.lehmann@ekfs.de
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