cloëtta prize cloëtta prize the cloëtta prize (german: cloëtta-preis; french: prix cloëtta) is a swiss distinction to honour personalities who have distinguished themselves in biomedical research. worth 50,000 swiss francs, it has been awarded annually by the max cloëtta foundation (based in zurich), since 1974. laureates source: cloetta 2020: mohamed bentires-alj and nadia mercader huber 2019: botond roska and oliver distler 2018: tim schroeder (swiss federal institute of technology (eth)) and johanna joyce (lausanne university) 2017: denis jabaudon (university of geneva)) and markus g. manz (university hospital of zürich) 2016: michel gilliet (university hospital of lausanne) and andreas lüthi (friedrich miescher institute) 2015: dominique soldati-favre (university of geneva) and fritjof helmchen (university of zurich). 2014: henrik kaessmann (university of lausanne) and marc donath (university hospital of basel). 2013: andreas papassotiropoulos and dominique j.-f. de quervain 2012: olaf blanke (école polytechnique fédérale de lausanne) 2011: petra s. hüppi 2010: christian lüscher and burkhard becher 2009: margot thome miazza (university of lausanne) and walter reith 2008: darius moradpour (university hospital of lausanne) and sabine werner 2007: nouria hernandez (university of lausanne) and françois mach 2006: adrian merlo and michael hengartner 2005: urs albrecht and dominique muller 2004: amalio telenti and radek skoda 2003: michael n. hall and bernhard moser 2002: bernard thorens and andrea superti-furga 2001: isabel roditi and thierry calandra 2000: giuseppe pantaleo and brian hemmings 1999: clemens a. dahinden and antonio lanzavecchia 1998: adriano aguzzi and primus e. mullis 1997: gerard waeber and denis duboule 1996: lukas c. kühn and peter sonderegger 1995: jürg reichen and george thomas jr. 1994: hans rudolf brenner and daniel pablo lew 1993: paolo meda and adriano fontana 1992: michel aguet (university of zurich) 1991: peter j. meier-abt and jacques philippe 1990: martin e. schwab and denis monard 1989: heini murer and hugh robson macdonald 1988: jean-dominique vassalli and hans hengartner 1987: jacques louis and joachim seelig 1986: ueli schibler and walter schaffner 1985: hans thoenen and roberto montesano 1984: heidi diggelmann and jean-françois borel 1983: peter böhlen and claes b. wollheim 1982: jürgen zapf and jean-michel dayer 1981: rolf zinkernagel and peter a. cerutti 1980: edward w. flückiger and albert burger 1979: theodor koller and jean-pierre kraehenbuehl 1978: susumu tonegawa 1977: franz oesch 1976: rui c. de sousa 1975: hans bürgi 1974: urs a. meyer