The Heinrich Wieland Prize is awarded annually by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for outstanding research on biologically active molecules and systems in the areas of chemistry, biochemistry and physiology as well as their clinical importance. In 1963, the Margarine Institute established the Heinrich Wieland Prize to support research in the field of lipids. In 2000, the Margarine Institute ended its sponsorship of the Prize and the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim became the new sponsor. In 2011, the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation took over the prize. The awardee is selected by a scientific board of trustees. The prize is named after the Nobel Prize Laureate in chemistry Professor Heinrich Wieland (1877-1957), one of the leading lipid chemists of the first half of the 20th century. To mark its 50th anniversary in 2014, the prize money was raised to 100,000 euros. Four of its awardees have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize: Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein (1974), Bengt Samuelsson (1981) and James E. Rothman 1990. Prize winners Source: Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation Heinrich Wieland Prize Laureates since 2020 1964: Ernst Klenk 1965: Wilhelm Stoffel 1966: no award presented 1967: Heinrich Wagener and Bruno Frosch 1968: David Adriaan van Dorp 1969: Werner Seubert 1970: Christian Bode and Harald Goebell 1971: Laurens L.M. van Deenen 1972: Heiner Greten and Kurt Oette 1973: Shosaku Numa 1974: Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein 1975: Ernst Ferber and Klaus Resch 1976: Dietrich Seidel and Eckhart Schweizer 1977: Gerd Assmann and Helmut K. Mangold 1978: Olga Stein and Yechezkiel Stein 1979: Konrad Sandhoff 1980: H. Bryan Brewer and Barry Lewis 1981: Bengt Samuelsson 1982: Hansjörg Eibl and Robert William Mahley 1983: John M. Dietschy 1984: Olaf Adam and Gerhart Kurz 1985: Guy Ourisson 1986: Eugene P. Kennedy 1987: Akira Endo and Dietrich Keppler 1988: Lawrence C.B. Chan 1989: Ching-Hsien Huang 1990: James E. Rothman and Karel W. A. Wirtz 1991: Jan L. Breslow 1991: Wolfgang J. Schneider 1992: Lev D. Bergelson 1993: Walter Neupert 1994: Joachim Seelig 1995: Jean E. Schaffer and Dennis E. Vance 1996: Jeffrey M. Friedman 1997: Bruce M. Spiegelman 1998: Thomas E. Willnow 1999: Ernst Heinz 2000: Lewis Clayton Cantley 2001: Felix Wieland 2002: Stephen O'Rahilly 2003: David J. Mangelsdorf 2004: Raphael Mechoulam and Roger Nicoll 2005: Helen Hobbs 2006: Alois Fürstner 2007: Joachim Herz 2008: Markus Stoffel 2009: Steven Ley 2010: Nenad Ban 2011: Franz-Ulrich Hartl 2012: Carolyn R. Bertozzi