Symposium and Award Ceremony.
Each autumn, the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation hosts a scientific symposium in Munich, held alongside the Heinrich Wieland Prize award ceremony. This event honours the laureate for their groundbreaking achievements.
The Heinrich Wieland Prize symposium brings together leading scientists from around the world with promising young researchers. It fosters intergenerational exchange, creates opportunities for mentorship and networking, and inspires emerging talents to pursue their curiosity and passion - driving the scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow.
The next symposium will take place at Munich Residence on 11 December 2025.
Registration will open once the laureate and speakers are announced in the summer.
Anniversary symposium: Celebrating 60 years of scientific breakthroughs and the 2024 Heinrich Wieland Prize
Professional exchange, networking, and inspiration at baroque Nymphenburg Palace: In honour of the 2024 Heinrich Wieland laureate, Benjamin F. Cravatt from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, USA, and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Heinrich Wieland Prize, the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation organised a full-day symposium.
On 24 October, thirteen internationally renowned scientists gave lectures on their research in the fields of structural biology, neurobiology, metabolism and brain-body communication, as well as chemical biology.
Among the invited speakers were James E. Rothman, 1990 Heinrich Wieland laureate and 2013 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, as well as Heinrich Wieland laureates Nenad Ban (2010), Gero Miesenböck (2015), and Jens Brüning (2019).
PhD students and postdoctoral researchers presented their work in selected flash talks and during a poster session. Two of them were awarded poster prizes worth 500 EUR each, selected by a poster jury and the audience.
You can find the full list of speakers and thee programme of the symposium here.
