Otto Warburg Medal Award

Announcing: 2025 Otto Warburg Medal Award winner

^{Image caption: Professor Matthias Hentze, 2025 recipient of the Otto Warburg Medal
Image credit: Uwe Dettmar}

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2025 Otto Warburg Medal Award

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Otto Warburg Medal opens in new tab/window has been presented to Professor Matthias Hentze, in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the understanding of gene regulation by RNA-binding proteins and the identification of RNA-binding proteins.

On Friday 21 March 2025, the medal was presented to Professor Matthias Hentze at the 76th Mosbacher Kolloquium. The ceremony was followed by a lecture by the winner, entitled “From Otto Warburg to Riboregulation: a 100 year journey in metabolism”. The medal, awarded by the German Society for Biochemistry, is the most important recognition in biochemistry in Germany. BBA and Elsevier are proud sponsors of the Otto Warburg Medal.

The 2025 Otto Warburg Medal Award was presented at the 76th Mosbacher Kolloquium

Image caption: From left to right: Professor Lienhard Schmitz, University of Giessen, Germany, Executive Editor of BBA Molecular Cell Research; Laura Mesquita, Executive Publisher of Biochemistry, Elsevier; Professor Matthias Hentze, Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany; Professor Harald Kolmar, TU Darmstadt, Germany, President of the German Society for Biochemistry.

Image credit: Uwe Dettmar.

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