Honours
| 2023 | Einstein Lecture |
| 2022 | Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize |
| 2022 | International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2022 | International Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA |
| 2021 | Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research |
| 2020 | Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine |
| 2020 | ERC Synergy Grant |
| 2019 | Rumford Prize |
| 2019 | Warren Alpert Foundation Prize |
| 2018 | Canada Gairdner International Award, Toronto |
| 2018 | Otto Warburg Medaille der GBM (German Society for Biochemistry and Mol. Biology) |
| 2017 | Leopoldina Mendel Medaille. Halle |
| 2017 | Harvey Prize, Technion, Haifa |
| 2016 | Massry Prize, Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation, Los Angeles |
| 2016 | Honorary Bonhoeffer Prize Lecture, Göttingen |
| 2016 | ERC Advanced Grant |
| 2016 | Hector Science Award and Hector Fellow, Heidelberg |
| 2015 | Mayors Science Prize of Berlin |
| 2014 | Member of the Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech) |
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2014 |
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation |
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2014 |
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
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2013 |
"Brain Prize” of the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize Foundation |
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2013 |
Louis-Jeantet Award |
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2013 |
Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
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2012 |
Member of the German Academy of Science Leopoldina |
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2012 |
Zülch Preis for Fundamental Advances in Neurobiology, Cologne |
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2010 |
Karl Heinz Beckurts Prize for Basic Research, Munich |
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2010 |
"Wiley Prize" for Biomedical Innovation, New York |
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1986 |
Karl Winnacker Stipendium |
| 1984 | "Otto-Hahn-Medal” of the Max-Planck-Society |