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2010 Körber Prize goes to Jiri Friml
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On Tuesday, 7 September at 11:30 a.m. in the Great Hall of Hamburg City Hall, the Körber Foundation will present the 2010 Körber European Science Award, which is endowed with 750,000 €, to Jiri Friml. Hamburg's Mayor Christoph Ahlhaus will welcome the invited guests.
At the centre of the research work of the Czech molecular biologist and biochemist Jiri Friml is the growth hormone auxin. Its distribution regulates what is up and what is down in a plant, how much it grows in a particular direction and where individual 'organs' are located. These findings are seen as a milestone in gaining a greater understanding of numerous physiological processes in plants. However, they are also of pre-eminent importance to agronomic and medical research. Jiri Friml has been Professor for Plant Systems Biology at the University of Ghent, Belgium since 2007. The 37-year-old went to the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne in 1997, obtaining his doctorate in biology at the University of Cologne in 2000. In 2001 he moved to the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Tübingen. Here he headed a research group before gaining a further doctorate in biochemistry at the University of Brno. Jiri Friml is one of the top five most frequently quoted plant scientists in Europe.
On 6 September 2010 at 4:00 p.m. Jiri Friml will present his research work in the main building of the University of Hamburg as part of a university lecture on the subject "Auxin - How cells make a plant".
In 2010, the Körber Prize is being awarded for the 26th time. Every year, outstanding scientists working in Europe are honored for research work that holds great future promise. The award goes to excellent and innovative research approaches with high application potential on the way to achieving international standing. Selection committees comprising leading scientists from all over Europe search for suitable award candidates, on whom the Trustee Committee then decides.
Keywords : Auxin Jiri Friml Körber Prize Plant Research University of Ghent
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