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- Germany awarded the Virchow Prize 2026 to Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum and Peter Piot.
- The prize valued at 500,000 euros was split equally between the laureates.
- The ceremony took place on October 10, 2026 at Berlin’s Rotes Rathaus.
- Their collaboration began in 1976 during the first identified Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Peter Piot served as UNAIDS’s first executive director from 1995 to 2008.