Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2021: Two researchers from TU Darmstadt receive awards

The “Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2021 – The Stifterverband Science Award” of the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers, endowed with 50,000 euros, goes to an international team of scientists from Germany, England and Italy for the development of a cost-effective and extraordinary amplification of magnetic resonance signals for applications in analytics and asa new contrast agent for medical imaging (MRI). The award goes to James Eills, Danila Barskiy, John Blanchard and Dmitry Budker of Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Stephan Knecht and Gerd Buntkowsky of TU Darmstadt, Kerstin Münnemann of TU Kaiserslautern, Laurynas Dagys and Malcolm H. Levitt of the University of Southampton, and Eleonora Cavallari, Francesca Reineri and Silvio Aime of the University of Turin.

With the Erwin Schrödinger Prize, Helmholtz and the Stifterverband jointly honor outstanding scientific achievements. The prize is intended to honor interdisciplinary research that has been achieved in border areas between different subjects of medicine, natural sciences and engineering and with participation of representatives of at least two disciplines. The official award ceremony will take place at the Helmholtz Annual Meeting in the fall of 2022.

Further informations:

• Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
• Press release Helholtz-Gemeinschaft
• Film on YouTube