Press Release No. 30
Berlin
Erwin Schrödinger Prize 2008 Goes to Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center First Map Showing Human Protein Interactions
A Berlin research team led by Professor Erich E. Wanker of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has been awarded this year’s Erwin Schrödinger Prize for creating a unique “connection scheme” showing for the first time how thousands of human proteins – the building blocks and machines of life – interact with each other.