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We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJMS 2022 Young Investigator Award.
Ho-Chang Kuo graduated from the National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, with an M.D. degree in 1999 and a PhD degree from the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science at Chang Gung University, Taiwan, in 2011. Now, he is the Director of the “Kawasaki Disease Center” in Taiwan. His research and clinical expert field are in Kawasaki disease and allergic diseases.
John Charles Rotondo is currently a Principal Investigator at the Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. His research is focused on evaluating the role of non-coding RNA molecules in modulating epithelial cell proliferation, differentiation and adhesion processes and understanding the dysregulated immunological, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms relying on the onset and progression of cancers of different histotypes, including Merkel cell, vulvar and cervical carcinomas. He studied the role of small DNA tumor viruses including human polyoma- and papillomaviruses in human cancers and other diseases.
Luca Falzone holds the research associate position at the National Cancer Institute IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale of Naples (Italy) and is the head of the “Cancer Epigenetics and Biomarker Discovery” research group at the Experimental Oncology Laboratory, Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania (Italy). His research activities are focused on the study of biological processes involved in the development of cancer including the role of epigenetic alterations as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers.
Manuel Gomez-Florit is an Assistant Researcher and Junior Principal Investigator at the Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of the Balearic Islands. His research focuses on the use of platelet-derived extracellular vesicles and biomolecules for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications, with an emphasis on tendon regeneration.
Suowen Xu is a full professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interest centers on the molecular mechanism of endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis.
Each awardee will receive an honorarium of CHF 1000 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.
IJMS Young Investigator Evaluation Committee
IJMS 2022 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
Chairman
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
Chairman
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
Chairman
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
Chairman
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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