Axel Ullrich

Awards

1. 2010

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for his pioneering contributions to the discovery and characterization of human proto-onco-genes and the development of novel cancer therapies.

2. 2019

   Lasker Award — Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For their invention of Herceptin, the first monoclonal antibody that blocks a cancer-causing protein, and for its development as a life-saving therapy for women with breast cancer