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We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJMS 2020 Young Investigator Award in the fields of Molecular Biology, Biomaterial, Molecular Biophysics, Molecular Medicine and Biochemistry.
Winner of Molecular Biology: Prof. Dr. Claudio Luchini, MD, PhD, is a pathologist, researcher and Associate Professor at Verona University. He has produced groundbreaking research in the field of molecular biology, oncology and of surgical and molecular pathology, in particular regarding pancreatic cancer.
Winner of Biomaterial: Dr. Filippo Rossi is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. He has produced groundbreaking research in the field of polymer-based biomaterials, both in bulk and colloid forms, and contributed significantly to the advancement of pharmaceutical therapies in the central nervous system.
Winner of Molecular Biophysics: Dr. Vanessa Checchetto is Assistant Professor at the University of Padua. She has produced groundbreaking research in the field of ion channels, first in green organisms and then in the mitochondria of mammalian cells. She contributed significantly to the discovery and the characterization of the first thylakoid-membrane-located channel in green organisms, and some other highly important scopes in the context of cardiac ischemia.
Winner of Molecular Medicine: Dr. Antonios Chatzigeorgiou is Assistant Professor of Physiology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has produced groundbreaking research in the field of Metabolism. His work sheds light on important issues pertinent to the role of obesity- and diabetes-related inflammation in the development of pathophysiological complications. He has also proposed innovative therapeutic approaches and strategies in this direction.
Winner of Biochemistry: Prof. Dr. Riekelt Houtkooper is Professor of Translational Metabolism at the University of Amsterdam, where he works at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers (location AMC). He produced groundbreaking research in the field of molecular and translational metabolism, both in the context of inborn errors of metabolism and aging. He has co-authored over 120 journal papers, published in leading peer-reviewed journals. His overall citation number is 12475.
Each of the awardees will receive an honorarium of 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs) and an engraved plaque.
We would like to express our gratitude to all the participants of the IJMS 2020 Young Investigator Award and the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of all the excellent nominations.
IJMS Editorial Office Editor-in-Chief Dr. Vladimir Uversky
IJMS 2020 Young Investigator Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Andres Felipe Leal
Nemours Children´s Health, Wilmington, DE 19803, USA
Yu-Chan Chang
Department of Biomedicine Imaging and Radiological Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 112, Taiwan
Kangnan Wang
State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
Haishun Du
Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1544, USA
Lukasz Janczewski
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Zeromskiego 116, 90-924 Lodz, Poland
Award Committee
Dr. Maurizio Battino
Chairperson
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Prof. Dr. Irmgard Tegeder
Pharmazentrum Frankfurt, Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie Klinikum der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Prof. Setsuko Komatsu
Fukui University of Technology
Dr. João Pedro Silva
UCIBIO, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto
Prof. Vladimir N. Uversky
University of South Florida
Prof. Dr. Yanjie Xie
Nanjing Agricultural University
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Saccone
University of Catania
Prof. Dr. Claudio Santi
University of Perugia
Dr. Lasse Lindahl
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Prof. Dr. Consolato Sergi
University of Alberta
Winner
Wentao Li
Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Antentor Hinton
Vanderbilt University, USA
Salvador González Gordo
Estación Experimental del Zaidín (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), Spain
Edina Poletto
Stanford University, USA
Chiara Mazziotta
University of Ferrara, Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Maurizio Battino
Chairperson
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Dr. Peter Kuppen
Leiden University Medical Center
Dr. Jong-Seok Lim
Prof. Dr. Bo Sun
Sichuan Agricultural University
Prof. Seok-Geun Lee
Kyung Hee University
Dr. Naoki Asano
Division of Carcinogenesis and Senescence Biology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
Winner
HO-CHANG KUO
Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Suowen Xu
University of Science and Technology of China, China
John Charles Rotondo
University of Ferrara, Italy
Manuel Gomez-Florit
IdISBa - Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Luca Falzone
IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori "Fondazione G. Pascale", Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Maurizio Battino
Chairperson
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Dr. Marco Fiore
IBBC-CNR Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Dr. Alexander Y. Tsygankov
Winner
Apostolos Zaravinos
European University Cyprus, Cyprus
Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Alessandro D'Urso
University of Catania, Italy
Tiziana Bonifacino
University of Genoa, Italy
Maria Teresa Caccamo
Messina University, Italy
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Claudiu Supuran
Chairperson
Univeristy of Florence
Prof. Angelo Poletti
Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari
Prof. Dr. Se-Kwon Kim
Winner
Claudio Luchini
University of Verona, Italy
Riekelt Houtkooper
Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
Antonios Chatzigeorgiou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Vanessa Checchetto
University of Padova, Italy
Filippo Rossi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Winner
Dr. Rob W. J. Collin
Radboud University, Netherlands
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