The Theodor Bücher Lecture and Medal was endowed by a generous capital gift from Frau Ingrid Bücher to the Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (GBM) and is awarded for outstanding achievements in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or related sciences.

The awardee, who is expected to be active in European research, presents one of the plenary lectures at the FEBS Congress.

The awardee receives a silver medal, and is awarded his/her travel expenses to the Congress.

This year the Bücher medal will be presented to Svante Pääbo,  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany and will prresent his paper: Analyses of pleistocene genomes

The Datta Lectureship award is provided by generous capital gifts from Elsevier Science Publishers and is awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or related sciences.

The award will normally be made at each Congress of FEBS to one of the plenary lecturers.

The lecturer should normally be from a FEBS country.

The awardee receives a medal, provided by Elsevier Science Publishers, and is awarded his/her travel expenses to the Congress.

This year the Datta medal will be presented to Juleen Zierath, Karolinska Institutet, Clinical Integrative Physiology, Stockholm, Sweden and will present his paper Gene/Environment influence on skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity in Type 2 Diabetic patients

The Sir Hans Krebs Lecture and Medal was endowed by a general gift from the Lord Rank Centre for Research and is awarded for outstanding achievements in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology or related sciences.

The awardee, who should be active in European research, presents one of the plenary lectures at the FEBS Congress.

The awardee receives a silver medal, and is awarded his/her travel expenses to the Congress.

It is customary for the Lecture to be published in full in The FEBS Journal.

The Krebs medal will be presented to Harald Stenmark, Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo and Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Cancer Research, the Norwegian Radium Hospital and will present his paper: How a lipid mediates tumour suppression