Film project by Britta Wauer
Showing face for more research on rare diseases
In the midst of the pandemic, filmmaker Britta Wauer portrayed companions and supporters of our foundation's work. In twelve episodes, the Grimme Award winner explores what drives people who work in research and science, in treatment rooms, meeting rooms or at their desks at home to ensure that (their) children with rare diseases can hope for urgently needed therapies.
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Research Award Call for applications for the 16th Eva Luise Köhler Research Award for Rare Diseases

In order to improve medical care for the "orphans of medicine", the Eva Luise and Horst Köhler Foundation in cooperation with ACHSE e. V. has been granting a research award for rare diseases since 2008. Applications for the 16th research award, which will be awarded in Berlin in May 2024, can be submitted until September 17, 2023.

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RESEARCH AWARD 2015 - UPDATE When cilia remain motionless: Researcher identifies 40 genetic defects

The Eva Luise Köhler Research Award has been granted annually since 2008 to promote research into rare diseases. The awarded money of €50,000 each has already enabled more than a dozen innovative research projects to be launched. The 2015 award winner, Prof. Dr. Heymut Omran, told journalist Sandra Arens how his research in the field of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia has developed since he received the award.

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RESEARCH AWARD 2009 - UPDATE Vulnerable as a butterfly - New drugs against epidermis bullosa

The Eva Luise Köhler Research Award has been granted annually since 2008 to promote research into rare diseases. The awarded money of €50,000 each has already enabled more than a dozen innovative research projects to be launched. The 2009 award winner, Prof. Dr. Leena Bruckner-Tuderman told journalist Sandra Arens how her research in the field of epidermis bullosa has developed since the 2009 award.

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RESEARCH AWARD 2008 - UPDATE Overcoming boundaries and saving lives with the "turbo enzyme" 

The Eva Luise Köhler Research Award has been granted annually since 2008 to promote research into rare diseases.
The awarded money of €50,000 each has already enabled more than a dozen innovative research projects to be launched. Journalist Sandra Arens asked the first award winners, Prof. Dr. Volkmar Gieselmann and Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Galla, how their research on lysosomal storage disorders has developed since they received the award in 2008.

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RESEARCH AWARD 2018 Help for children with severe early childhood epilepsy  

Für ihre Forschung zur Behandlung einer besonders schweren frühkindlichen Form der Epilepsie erhielt Dr. Ulrike Hedrich-Klimosch, Biologin am Hertie-Institut für klinische Hirnforschung in Tübingen, gemeinsam mit Dr. Stephan Lauxmann und Prof. Dr. Holger Lerche vom Universitätsklinikum Tübingen den Eva Luise Köhler Forschungspreis 2018.

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RECOGNITION AWARD 2015 Sickle cell disease - newborn screening saves lives

Der Kinderarzt Dr. Stephan Lobitz hat maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, dass die Untersuchung auf die Sichelzellerkrankung im Jahr 2021 in das reguläre Neugeborenenscreening in Deutschland aufgenommen wurde. Den Anerkennungspreis der Eva Luise und Horst Köhler Stiftung für Seltene Erkrankungen erhielt er bereits 2015.

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