The Hector Prize is endowed with 150.000 Euro. With this Award, the Foundation honors his outstanding achievements in basic clinical/medical research on reproduction strategies and immune biology of hepatitis C virus and dengue virus. The cell culture models developed by Ralf Bartenschlager laid the foundation for the development of antiviral medications against HCV, which eliminate the virus in 95% of treated patients.

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His research on replication of Hepatitis C virus provided the foundation for development of pharmaceutical components for hepatitis treatment and finally the cure for chronical liver infection.

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