Press Release No. 3
Berlin
Award for Jens Reich - Scientist and Essayist
Professor Jens Reich, molecular biologist at the Max-Delbrück-Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch and co-founder of the civil rights movement "New Forum" in the former GDR is to receive the newly-endowed "Anna Krüger Prize of the Institute of Advanced Study of Berlin". Reich is the first recipient of this award, which is worth 50,000 German marks. Reich works at the MDC where he heads the "Bioinformatics" working group which deals with decoding of the human genome and its recording on a data base.