In 2000 students of the Fraunhofer IGB were awarded with one 1st and two 2nd prizes.

1st prize:

Dirk Rothenstein, research group Automated Protein Screening Systems (Dr. Steffen Rupp)

2nd prize:

Christoph Dieterich, research group Automated Protein Screening Systems (Dr. Steffen Rupp)

Marc Schmidt-Supprian, IGB department Molecular Biotechnology / IGVT University of Stuttgart (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bernhagen)