German Prize for Cancer Prevention Research

The German Cancer Prevention Research Prize is awarded in two categories. A prize of €25,000 honors outstanding scientists whose work has significantly advanced cancer prevention research over many years.

The Early Career Award, endowed with €5,000, is presented to researchers who have distinguished themselves through innovative projects in cancer prevention within ten years of completing their doctorate. Both prizes are earmarked and support the continued scientific work of the award recipients.

The German Cancer Prevention Research Prize is awarded by the Manfred Lautenschläger-Stiftung gGmbH. The award ceremony takes place as part of the German Cancer Research Congress (GCRC).

The award recipients are selected by an international scientific committee.

Selection is based on the following criteria:

• exceptional scientific originality
• excellent quality of the research
• strong potential to advance primary, secondary, or tertiary cancer prevention

Proposals nominating female researchers as candidates are particularly welcome. Legal recourse is excluded.

The prizes will be awarded based on nominations by third parties. Self-nominations are excluded. Researchers affiliated with universities and non-university (research) institutes in Germany are eligible for nomination.

The following organizations may nominate candidates: 

• the German Cancer Society, 

• German Cancer Aid, 

• the Fraunhofer Society, 

• the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers, 

• the Max Planck Society, 

• the German Medical Faculty Association, 

• the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and 

• the Leibniz Association.

Those organizations entitled to nominate can submit up to three nominations each for the Established Scientist Award and the Early-Career Award. It is also possible to repeat previous proposals.