Hansen Family Award

The Hansen Family Award was established in 2000 by Kurt Hansen [de] – former chairman of the board and supervisory board of Bayer AG.^[1]

The Bayer Foundation awards the Hansen Family Award, endowed with 75,000 euros,^[2] to scientists in the German-speaking region for groundbreaking research in scientific fields related to medicine.^[3] It is awarded every two years in alternation with the Otto Bayer Award.^[4]

Recipients

• 2000: Thomas Jentsch
• 2002: Christian Haass und Ralf Baumeister
• 2005: Rüdiger Klein
• 2007: Magdalena Götz
• 2009: Patrick Cramer^[1]
• 2011: Stefan Hell^[5]
• 2013: Hans-Georg Rammensee^[6]
• 2015: Emmanuelle Charpentier^[7]
• 2017: Jens Claus Brüning,^[2] Matthias H. Tschöp^[8]
• 2019: Edith Heard^[9]
• 2021: Kai Johnsson^[10][11]
• 2023: Claudia Höbartner^[12][13]