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The 2024 winners are announced

The Einstein Foundation Berlin in cooperation with the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research at Charité is to honor Dutch microbiologist Elisabeth Bik, the platform PubPeer, and the project PixelQuality by Christopher Schmied and Helena Jambor with this year’s Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research. Congratulations!

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The Einstein Foundation Award

The Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research in cooperation with the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research at Charité honors researchers, institutions, and early career researchers around the globe whose work helps to fundamentally advance the quality, transparency, and reproducibility of science and research. The 2024 winners will be awarded €500,000.

The award is presented in three categories:

The Individual Award honors individual researchers or small teams of collaborating researchers.
The Institutional Award recognizes organizations and research institutions.
The Early Career Award highlights innovative project proposals by researchers at the beginning of their careers.

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The winners of the 2024 Award are announced. The call for entries for 2025 will be launched in January.

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"The Einstein Foundation Award … is not just recognizing those who fight disease or protect the planet—but importantly, those who elevate the field of research itself. Because with stronger methods, greater rigor, and more transparency, we will bring future breakthroughs even closer."

Melinda French Gates, 2021