Awards / Opportunities for young scientists

 

We are pleased to announce that the following posters have been awarded one of this year’s poster prizes generously sponsored by Toolpoint.

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1st Prize

 

Expanding the scope and orthogonality of PNA synthesis for encoding small molecules and programmed self-assembly
Z. Pianowski* (1), N. Winssinger (2)
(1)ETH (Zurich, CH); (2) Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (Strasbourg, FR)

 

2nd Prize

 

Drug-sensing hydrogels for the inducible release of biopharmaceuticals
E. Christen* (1), M. Kämpf (1), M. Ehrbar (2), R. Schoenmakers (3), M. Fussenegger (3), W. Weber (1)
(1)Albert-Ludwigs-University (Freiburg, DE); (2)University Hospital Zurich (Zurich, CH); (3) ETH (Zurich, CH)

 

3rd Prize

 

Unraveling the substrate specificity of a new ABC-transporter SAV1866
A. Beck* (1), P. Äänismaa (1), R. Dawson (2), K. Locher (2), A. Seelig (1)
(1) Biozentrum der Universität Basel (Basel, CH); (2) ETH (Zurich, CH)

 

Study and design of glucocorticoids as therapeutic modulators of tissue regeneration through in silico structure-based approaches
W.H. Bisson* (1), S. Sengupta (1), R. Abagyan (2), R.L. Tanguay (1)
(1) Oregon State University (Corvallis, US); (2) The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, US)

 

Imaging of mRNA in live cells using nucleic-acid templated reduction of azidorhodamine probes
K. Gorska*, Z. Pianowski, L. Oswald, C. Merten, N. Winssinger
Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (Strasbourg, FR)

 

Gene profiling and clustering of two human kinase screens
X. Zhang* (1), F. Fuchs (1), D. Gilbert (1), G. Pau (2), W. Huber (2), M. Boutros (1)
(1) German Cancer Research Center (Heidelberg, DE); (2) European Bioinformatics Institute (Cambridge, UK)

 

Cystic fibrosis on a chip
M. Zwick*, A. Seelig
Biozentrum der Universität Basel (Basel, CH)

 

 

We are pleased to announce that the following poster has been awarded the this years’ Young Investigator Award generously sponsored by ALA.

 

Identification of possible factors involved in spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 pathogenesis
I.C. Chen* (1), H.Y. Lin (1), Y.C. Hsiao (1), C.M. Chen (2), Y.R. Wu (2), Y.F. Shen (1), K.S. Huang (1), G.J. Lee-Chen (1)
(1)National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei City, TW); (2)Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Taipei, TW)

 

We congratulate all awardees on their excellent work!