Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award

The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award honors the outstanding contribution in the field of genetics of the nobel prize winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. The award is given for outstanding achievements in Zebrafish research. This can be remarkable advances in new techniques within the Zebrafish field published in excellent papers, or outstanding contribution to the zebrafish community regarding infrastructure and funding resources.

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.

Nüsslein-Volhard developed the gradient theory, which represents how gene expression is controlled by substance gradients in the egg cell and the embryo, and showed parallels in embryonic development between insects and vertebrates. After insects, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) later became the first vertebrate to be the preferred subject of Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's work in developmental biology. She won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis, for their research on the genetic control of embryonic development.

Congratulations to Stephen (Steve) Wilson, Professor of Developmental Genetics at University College London (UCL), who will receive the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award 2024 at the IZF Conference in Kyoto, Japan.

(Fotos: Gil Levkowitz, Steve Wilson)

Congratulations to Mary Mullins for receiving the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award 2023 by the European Zebrafish Society at the EZM 2023. More

(Foto: Mary Mullins)

Congratulations to Leonard Zon for receiving the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award 2022 by the European Zebrafish Society at the IZFC 2022. More

(Foto: Leonard Zon)

Congratulations to Koichi Kawakami for receiving the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award 2021 by EuFishBioMed at the IZFC 2021.

(Foto: Koichi Kawakami)

Congratulations to Uwe Strähle for receiving the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Award 2020 by EuFishBioMed at the virtual ZEBRAFISH 2020.

(Foto: Uwe Strähle)