LifeScienceXplained

For Those Who Can Explain Life Sciences

The LifeScienceXplained award honors communicators who use creative formats to make complex topics in the life sciences understandable to a broad audience and is endowed with 15,000 euros in prize money.

The application phase for this year has now closed. The suspense continues: Which three entries will advance to the award ceremony on November 6, 2025? 

Until then, let yourself be inspired by the finalists from previous years." Absätze kannst du so wie von dir vorgeschlagen lassen.

The Best of Four Years LifeScienceXplained

Impressions From the Award Ceremony 2024

Who has reached the finals in the last four years?

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All Finalists From Four Years of LifeScienceXplained

Dr. Franca Parianen inspires with science slam "Motor im Kopf"

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The influence of lifestyle factors on people's life expectancy

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Stopping the aging process with the yeast cultures

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Big data and artificial intelligence for the healthcare sector

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Children's non-fiction picture book about bacteria and their habitat

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Podcast Radio detektor.fm with the latest scientific topics

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Sugar - the next pandemic? 

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The YouTube Channel for Scientific Topics

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"Marko, the Macrophage" - The Science Comic

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Coronavirus explained with the help of an orange and cloves

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The non-fiction book about life and death: “Farewell to Hermine”

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13 Experiments - Understand the pandemic with tonic water & co.

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The Jury

The LifeScienceXplained prize is awarded by an independent jury of science and communication professionals. Three criteria are decisive for their decision: verifiability, comprehensibility and creativity.

After careful consideration of all entries, the jury selects three entries from which the winning entrywill be chosen. The name of the winner and the jury's reasoning are announced at the award ceremony each year. The three final entries will be published in advance.

Inga Bergen

Entrepreneur and expert for innovations in the healthcare sector

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brück

CEO, Head of Research and Teaching and Dean of the Medical Faculty at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG)

Prof. Dr. Viola Priesemann

Professor at the University of Göttingen for the Theory of Neural Systems

Dr.-Ing. Jan Patrick Pietras

Co-founder of myotwin and engineer in experimental research

Anja Martini

Chief Science Editor of Tagesschau

Dr. Franca Parianen

Science journalist and neuroscientist, LSX-winner 2024

Partner

The Sartorius Prize for New Communication is awarded together with the NDR Non-fiction Book Prize. This award, also endowed with 15,000 euros, recognizes the best non-fiction book of the year published in German. The joint award ceremony will take place on November 6, 2025 as part of the Göttinger Literaturherbst festival at the Sartorius Campus in Göttingen.

NDR Nonfiction Book Prize

Literaturherbst Festival

LSX Media Kit

The media kit contains: the invitation to tender, the tender video, poster and logo variants

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LifeScienceXplained
Lisa Kottas