The Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) and Elsevier/BBA honour the biophysicist for his research in the area of light-induced ion channels.

Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has been awarded the Otto Warburg Medal 2018. The Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) as well as its cooperation partners, the information analytics company Elsevier and  Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) journals, honoured the professor for experimental biophysics for his breakthrough research in the area of light-activated ion channels.