European Inventor Award

The European Patent Office (EPO) has honored Jens Frahm of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen with the European Inventor Award 2018 for his ground-breaking advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In two steps, the physicist and his team succeeded in speeding up MRI by a factor of up to 10,000 and established it in clinical practice. more

The European Patent Office has nominated Jens Frahm of the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry as one of the three finalists in the category research. The prize, awarded in five categories altogether, honors individual inventors and teams who have helped find technical answers to the most pressing challenges of our time. The winner will be elected in Paris on June 7, 2018. more