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Nominees and winners 2007
The 2007 European Inventor Award ceremony took place in Munich, Germany on 18 April.
Industry
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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
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Winners: Catia
Bastioli, Vittorio Bellotti, Luciano Del Giudice and Roberto Lombi (Italy)
Bio-degradable plastics -
Karlheinz
Schmidt (Germany)
Tissue engineering -
Hakan
Lans (Sweden)
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Non-European countries
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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
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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"