The Leibniz Prize was established by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) in 1985. The award money is intended to improve the working conditions of prizewinners by relieving them of administrative tasks and making it easier for them to employ well qualified young researchers.
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, in short, Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to “exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research”.
Established: 1985
First awarded: 1985
🇩🇪 🇵🇰 Dr Asifa Akhtar has been recognised for her groundbreaking cell-biological work on mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation