Gerhard Krönke receives Wolfgang Schulze Foundation Scientific Award 2025
Honouring outstanding research achievements for deciphering the mechanism of action of glucocorticoids
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Krönke, Director of the Medical Clinic for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and head of the research group Clinical Rheumatology at the German Rheumatology Research Center Berlin (DRFZ), a Leibniz-institute, was awarded the Wolfgang Schulze Foundation Science Award on 13 October 2025.
The award ceremony was held at Schöneberg Town Hall to coincide with World Arthritis Day. Prof. Dr. Eicke Latz, Scientific Director of the DRFZ, gave the laudatory speech, praising the outstanding research work of Gerhard Krönke and his team. Their research unraveled a new mechanism of action of glucocorticoids—an important contribution to the understanding and further development of rheumatological therapies.
Wolfgang Schulze Foundation Science Award
This funding is for outstanding research results from researchers in Germany and abroad.
