Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly awarded K-J Zülch Prize.
The K-J Zülch Prize of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation has been awarded to Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly of University of Cambridge and Dr Jeffrey Friedman of Rockefeller University, New York, “for Research into Metabolic Diseases”.
Professor O’Rahilly is co-director of the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge.
The prize has been awarded for outstanding achievements in basic neurological research every year since 1990, is endowed with 50,000 Euro, and is awarded and shared by two scientists.
Winners are selected by a jury is administered by the Max Planck Society who administer the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation as a Trust.