BIOSS Writer’s Award

Prof Dr Wilfried Weber received the Writer’s Award for his publications in 2012 

The cluster of excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies honours its most successful writer every year, and for 2012 the award goes to Prof Dr Wilfried Weber, Professor of Synthetic Biology at the University of Freiburg. In 2012, his work was published in scientific journals such as Chemical Society Reviews and the Nature Biotechnology. For his outstanding achievement, Prof Dr Michael Reth, the Scientific Director of BIOSS, awarded Wilfried Weber a wooden figure called the “Writer” made by Prof Dr Hans G. Kleinig.

The Performance Oriented Grants Option at BIOSS 

In 2010, BIOSS introduced a system for bonus funds called the Performance Oriented Grants Option, or BIOSS POGO. Members of the cluster who publish the results of their research supported by BIOSS in scientific journals are entitled to apply for bonus funds. The amount of POGO they can receive is based on the journal’s impact factor and the researcher’s level of participation, meaning whether they were the first or last author or a co-author.  

The Writer’s Award for researchers  

BIOSS honours the writer with the most bonus funds every year with the Writer’s Award. The 2011 winner was Oliver Einsle, and in 2010 it was Michael Reth. Based on his POGO, Wilfried Weber was the most outstanding author at BIOSS in 2012.

Prof Dr Hans G. Kleinig, who was Professor of Cellular Biology at the Institute of Biology II of the University of Freiburg until 2004, created the wooden figure for the award. For more than 25 years, he has devoted his spare time to creating artistic wooden figures, some reaching 150 centimetres in height, which he has shown in numerous exhibitions.

Prof. Michael Reth, Prof. Wilfried Weber, Dr. Johannes Kaiser