Cutting-edge research recognised with Leibniz Prize

Berlin (dpa) – In recognition of their accomplishments, ten researchers have been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, endowed with 2.5 million euros in each case. The funds are made freely available to researchers by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to enable them to pursue their specific projects. Professor Rohini Kuner of the University of Heidelberg is among those to have been awarded the prize. Kuner, who was born in Mumbai and studied medicine there, receives the award in recognition of her pioneering work on chronic pain. Two of the prizewinners work in the humanities and social sciences, three in the life sciences, four in the natural sciences and one in the engineering sciences.