This year, the Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation is honoring Max Planck researcher and MBExC member Stefan Hell for pioneering achievements in the technical sciences. The physicist and Nobel laureate succeeded in observing living cells at the molecular level using a new type of super-resolution microscopy. In addition to Hell, the BioNTech heads Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, Christoph Huber and Katalin Karikó will be honored this year