The “Hygiene Prize 2020” awarded by the Rudolf Schülke Foundation
05. Mär 2020
The Hygiene Prize of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation, which is endowed with € 15,000, was awarded this year to two young research teams.
The Hygiene Prize of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation, which is endowed with € 15,000, was awarded this year to two young research teams:
The Ph.D. students Esther Sib from the "One Health" working group of Dr. med. Dr. agr. Ricarda Schmithausen and Alexander Voigt from the working group “Chemistry” of Dr. rer. nat. Harald A. Färber, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health and Prof. Dr. Gabriele Bierbaum from the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology of Bonn University Hospital, were awarded the Prize for the publication of their highly interesting research work on the assessment of the risk of spreading antibiotic resistances via biofilms in wastewater systems in hospitals (IJHEH 2019;222(4):655-662).
Dr. med. Lukas Wissgrill, from the Medical University of Vienna, received the Hygiene Prize for the publication of his influential study on the effectiveness of surveillance cultures and targeted decolonization of colonized very low birth weight infants on the infection rates with methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (Neonatology 2017;112:267-273).
Sib W, Voigt AM, Wilbring G, Schreiber C, Faerber HA, Skutlarek D, Parcina M, Mahn R. Wolf D, Brossart P, Geiser F, Engelhart S, Exner M, Bierbaum G, Schmithausen RM.
Antibiotic resistant bacteria and resistance genes in biofilms in clinical wastewater networks. IJHEH 2019;222(4):655-662.
Wisgrill L, Zizka J, Unterasinger L, Rittenschober-Böhm J, Waldhör T, Maikristathis A, Berger A.
Active Surveillance Cultures and Targeted Decolonization Are Associated with Reduced Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Infections in VLBW Infants. Neonatology 2017;112:267-273.
The Rudolf Schülke Foundation awards the Hygiene Prize biennially to scientists who have achieved remarkable solutions to problems in the area of hygiene, microbiology and preventive medicine.
Here you will find a detailed press report on the symposium and the award ceremony.
The "Hygieia Medal 2020" awarded by the Rudolf Schülke Foundation
The Hygieia Medal was awarded to Prof. Dr. med. Ursel Heudorf, Frankfurt, for her outstanding lifetime commitment to hygiene, environmental medicine and public health. Her high level of scientific expertise, her ability to find practice-oriented solutions in a partnership approach, her extraordinary involvement in many committees along with her authorship in numerous publications have a role model function.
This medal is intended to honour those people who have devoted their lives’ work to hygiene and microbiology.
From left to right: Konrad Botzenhart (Advisory Board), Peter Heeg (Spokesman Advisory Board), Philippe Hartemann (Advisory Board) Ursel Heudorf (Laureate of the Hygieia Medal), Frank A. Pitten (Deputy Chairman Board), Martin Exner (Chairman Board), Bärbel Christiansen (Advisory Board), Matthias Trautmann (Advisory Board), Gabriele Bierbaum (Hygiene Prize winner), Peter Oltmanns (Board), Ricarda Schmithausen (Hygiene Prize winner), Esther Sib (Hygiene Prize winner), Alexander Voigt (Hygiene Prize winner), Lukas Wisgrill (Hygiene Prize winner)