Recent prize winners
| Year | Name | Research Affiliation | Award | Award amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Vasilis Ntziachristos | Spear UG | Smart Health Sensor | € 300,000 |
| 2025 | Magdalena Götz | Helmholtz Centre Munich | Body Organ Regenerator | € 250,000 |
| 2024 | Lauren Gardner | Johns Hopkins University | Fighting pandemics with AI | € 500,000 |
| 2023 | Khalid Salaita | Emory University, Georgia | Pandemic early alert | € 500,000 |
| 2022 | Tobias J. Erb | Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology | CO2 to fuel conversion | € 1 Mio |
| 2021 | Ting Lu | University of Illinois | Equally shared: Food generator | € 500,000 |
| 2021 | Steve Techtmann | Michigan Technological University | Equally shared: Food generator | € 500,000 |
| 2020 | Stephan Sieber | Technical University Munich | Multi-drug resistance breaker | € 1 Mio |
| 2019 | James Earl Crowe, Jr. | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Equally shared: Pandemic protector | € 500,000 |
| 2019 | Pardis Sabeti | The Broad Institute, Inc. | Equally shared: Pandemic protector | € 500,000 |
