Cells 2024 Young Investigator Award—Winner Announced

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Cells 2024 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Xianjue Ma.

Dr. Xianjue Ma is an Associate Professor of the School of Life Sciences at Westlake University, Zhejiang, China. Dr. Ma has been working on genetics for more than a decade, focusing on dissecting the molecular mechanisms of signaling transduction and cell communication during tumorigenesis, using Drosophila (fruit fly) cell lines and mouse models by combining genetics with the single-cell technique, developmental biology, cell biology, and biochemistry. Dr. Ma received his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Tongji University in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Medicine of Johns Hopkins University (HHMI) (2014–2015), USA, and Yale University (HHMI) (2015–2019), USA. Dr. Ma has been working as a Principal Investigator at the School of Life Sciences of Westlake University since June 2019. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Xianjue Ma on his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Ma will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, a voucher to fully cover the article processing fees valid for one year in Cells after peer-review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.