Award of the Walter Cyran Medal

The DGRA honours individuals who have rendered outstanding services in the field of "Regulatory Affairs" in the broader sense of the word or to the aims of the society. To this end, it has endowed a medal, the award of which is accompanied by the presentation of a certificate and prize money. The DGRA has named this medal after Walter Cyran.

About Walter Cyran

Walter Cyran was born in Düsseldorf in 1907 and died in Tübingen in 2000. He had studied pharmacy and food chemistry in Tübingen. After the Second World War, he took over the departments for pharmacy and food chemistry in the Ministry of the Interior of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and later of Baden-Württemberg in 1947.

He worked as a lecturer and honorary professor at the universities of Freiburg, Karlsruhe and Tübingen and was a member of numerous committees involved in the development of modern pharmaceutical law. He has become known beyond the borders of his federal state through his many publications on pharmaceutical and pharmacy law. The commentary on pharmaceutical law that he co-founded with Kloesel has become the standard work in this area of law as the "Kloesel/Cyran". The same applies to the "Cyran/Luckenbach/Hügel" and the "Cyran/Rotta" for pharmacy law that emerged from it.

The DGRA is grateful that his family, in particular his wife, has agreed to honour his lasting services to pharmaceutical law by naming the honorary award after Walter Cyran.

Award winners

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