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Rolf Müller receives „Tu Youyou Award 2024“
Every two years, the MDPI Sustainability Foundation presents the Tu Youyou Award for outstanding achievements in the fields of natural product and medicinal chemistry. This year, Rolf Müller is one of two researchers to receive the award for his work on developing new antibiotics based on microbial natural products. The prize was established in 2016 in honor of Chinese Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou and comes with a total prize money of 100,000 Swiss francs.
Prof Rolf Müller is the founding and scientific director of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), where he also heads the Department “Microbial Natural Products”. He is also a professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland University and coordinates the research area “Novel Antibiotics” at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF). He is receiving the Tu Youyou Award 2024 for his achievements in the field of pharmaceutical natural product research. Together with his interdisciplinary team, Müller focuses on isolating previously unknown soil bacteria and using them to produce pharmaceutical natural products. In particular, he is working on the discovery and development of new active substances for the treatment of infections with bacterial pathogens that are already resistant to a large number of clinically used antibiotics. Such active substances are urgently needed by society to mitigate the growing threat posed by multi-resistant pathogens. Müller will share the prize money for this year's award equally with Prof Richard DiMarchi from Indiana University Bloomington (USA). HIPS is a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in collaboration with Saarland University.
Jürgen Barke, Minister of Economics of Saarland, says: “The HIPS is a globally recognized flagship institute for drug research. Prof Müller's scientific work has played a decisive role in this development. Receiving the Tu Youyou Award is a well-deserved reward and I would like to offer my warmest congratulations.”
Further information on the Tu Youyou Award:
Chinese researcher Tu Youyou received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015, together with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, for their research into the malaria drug Artemisinin. Since 2016, the Sustainability Foundation of the Swiss scientific publisher MDPI has presented the Tu Youyou Award to researchers who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of natural product and medicinal chemistry. The winners are selected by an independent panel of eight international researchers. Further information can be found on the following website: https://tuyouyouprize.org/
This press release is also available on our website: https://www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/media-center/newsroom/news-detail/award-for-outs....
Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland:
The Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) in Saarbrücken was founded jointly by the HZI and Saarland University in 2009. Scientists at HIPS develop and employ experimental and computational approaches to provide new active substances against infectious diseases, optimise them for use in humans and investigate how they can best be transported to their site of action in the human body. A special focus of the institute is on microbial natural products from soil bacteria and the human microbiota as well as innovative medicinal chemistry-driven approaches. http://www.helmholtz-hips.de
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research:
Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and other locations in Germany study bacterial and viral infections and the body's defense mechanisms. They have in-depth expertise in natural product research and its use as a valuable source for novel anti-infectives. As a member of the Helmholtz Association and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), the HZI conducts translational research to lay the foundations for the development of novel therapies and vaccines against infectious diseases. http://www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/
Contact at HIPS:
Dr. Yannic Nonnenmacher
Scientific Strategy Officer
Phone +49 681 98806 4500
yannic.nonnenmacher@helmholtz-hips.de
Prof. Rolf Müller
Oliver Dietze
HIPS/Dietze
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