The summary gives entrants more opportunity to describe the specific aspects of their work, including the aims and achievements to date of the work submitte.
Applications should be sent to:
Dr. Erik Wiskott, Novartis Prizes for Immunology, P.O.Box 182, CH4013 Basel, Switzerland
FAX:++41 61 696 1411
are awarded every third year for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical immunology, recognising individual achievement and providing financial support for further research by the recipients. The prizes are a major feature of the triennial International Congress of Immunology, the leading world event in immunology.
In 1990 Sandoz established the Sandoz Prizes for Immunology which was expanded to its present format in 1992. Novartis was created in 1996 through the merger of Sandoz and Ciba Geigy. The new company is committed to its support of basic research in immunology and the continued high level of R&D established by its predecessors. In future the prizes will be known as the Novartis Prizes for Immunology, one for basic and one for clinical immunology, each will be worth SFr 100,000, and may be shared between more than one individual. A fifth of each prizes is given in personal recognition of exceptional individual endeavour and achievement, while the remainder is intended to support further research by the prizes winners. The prizes were set up both to stimulate research for some of the most difficult problems in modern medicine, and to increase fruitful exchanges between researchers in the academic and industrial communities. They provide a valuable focus on immunology as a key area for medical progress, and are intended to further remarkable recent advances in understanding which have made it possible to treat or even cure conditions which have long been seen as an inescapable part of the human condition.
1990
Dr. Max Cooper and Dr. Jacques Miller
1992
Sandoz Prizes for Basic Immunology;
Dr. Jack L. Strominger
Sandoz prizes for Clinical Immunology;
Dr. Tadamitsu Kishimoto and Dr. Toshio Hirano
1995
Sandoz Prizes for Basic Immunology;
Dr. Melvin Cohn, Dr. Kevin Lafferty, Dr. Avrion Mitchison, and Dr. David Talmage
Sandoz prizes for Clinical Immunology;
Dr. Robert S. Schwartz, and Dr. Thierry Boon