Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis
Award year: 2022
Category: Award / Honour
Type: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Awarding organization: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Prof. Dr. Georg Schett is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of inflammatory and immune medicine and has made groundbreaking discoveries in the regulation of inflammation and the interaction between inflammation and autoimmunity. The most important aspect of his research is to understand how autoimmune diseases develop and why they become chronic. During his research, Schett always keeps patients in mind as he conducts fundamental research that is based on clinical observations. Thanks to this process known as reverse translation, he successfully carried out the world’s first treatment for the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using patients’ own genetically-modified immune cells.