# Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Foundation

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## TL;DR

A foundation that gives the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research every two years to a scientist who has made extraordinary contributions to basic cancer research, with a scientific symposium in Zurich.

## Summary

The Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Foundation was set up by Frédérique Brupbacher in memory of her husband, Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher, who died of cancer; she presided over it until her death in 2015. Its seat is in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, and in scientific matters it works with the University of Zurich and its Medical Faculty.

Every two years it gives the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research to a scientist who has made extraordinary contributions to basic oncological research, holds the scientific C. R. Brupbacher Symposium in Zurich, gives up to five Young Investigator Awards and arranges a public lecture in German. Its laureates page lists prizes from 1993 to 2019, beginning with Arnold Levine and David Lane, who lectured on p53; later laureates include Brian Druker (2001), Harald zur Hausen (1999), Richard Peto and Nubia Muñoz (2009), Bert Vogelstein (2011), Irving Weissman (2015), Laurence Zitvogel (2017) and Michael N. Hall (2019). The foundation's site gives no date yet for the 15th symposium.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Stiftung; Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research; Brupbacher Prize
- City: Vaduz, LI
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://www.brupbacher-foundation.org

## Sources

- Brupbacher Foundation: the foundation: https://www.brupbacher-foundation.org/en/foundation
- Brupbacher Prize: laureates 1993 to 2019: https://www.brupbacher-foundation.org/en/research-prizes/brupbacher-prize

## Connected records

- institutions: [Gairdner Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/gairdner-foundation/), [King Faisal Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/king-faisal-foundation/), [Lasker Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/lasker-foundation/), [Pezcoller Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/pezcoller-foundation/), [Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences](https://onco.cc/institutions/royal-swedish-academy-of-sciences/), [University Hospital Zurich / Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich](https://onco.cc/institutions/usz-zurich/)
- people: [Bert Vogelstein](https://onco.cc/people/bert-vogelstein/), [Brian Druker](https://onco.cc/people/brian-druker/), [Harald zur Hausen](https://onco.cc/people/harald-zur-hausen/), [Irving L. Weissman](https://onco.cc/people/irving-weissman/), [Laurence Zitvogel](https://onco.cc/people/laurence-zitvogel/), [Nubia Muñoz](https://onco.cc/people/nubia-munoz/), [Robert D. Schreiber](https://onco.cc/people/robert-schreiber/), [Sir Richard Peto](https://onco.cc/people/richard-peto/)

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