Honoring research ingenuity

The Ruth Chiquet Prize is awarded annually to one or several FMI scientists who developed an innovative new method or tool in their field that has had significant impact and shows high creativity and thinking outside the box.
The prize, which was instigated in 2016, is named after the late Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann who was a group leader at the FMI from 1985 to 2015. Ruth discovered and characterized major teneurin and tenascin proteins, and was successful at pursuing non-mainstream topics that nonetheless had major biomedical impact.