Nominees and winners 2007

The 2007 European Inventor Award ceremony took place in Munich, Germany on 18 April.  

Industry

• Winners: Franz Lärmer and Andrea Urban (Germany)
  Method for anisotropically etching silicon
• Malcolm Begemann, Willem Boute and Marijn Van Gemert (the Netherlands)
  Pacemaker with dynamic, non-linear rate responsiveness
• Hans Meixner and Randolf Mock (Germany)
  Piezo direct injection: optimised fuel supply for automobile engines

SMEs/Research

• Winners: Catia Bastioli, Vittorio Bellotti, Luciano Del Giudice and Roberto Lombi (Italy)
  Bio-degradable plastics
• Karlheinz Schmidt (Germany)
  Tissue engineering
• Hakan Lans (Sweden)
  STDMA data link

Non-European countries

• Winner: Joseph Vacca (USA)
  Crixivan, HIV treatment method
• Shuji Nakamura (Japan)
  Lighting Up: Japanese inventor creates a world of colour
• Shigeo Nakanishi and Iwao Yamanaka (Japan)
  Prograf, immuno-suppressant therapy drug

Lifetime achievement

• Winner: Marc Feldmann (United Kingdom)
  Research of cytokines in auto-immune diseases
• Alec Jeffreys (United Kingdom)
  DNA fingerprint
• Tim Lüth (Germany)
  Surgical robot "Otto on the Ceiling"