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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 IJMS Young Investigator Prize and three 2017 IJMS Travel Awards: The 2017 IJMS Young Investigator Prize has been awarded to Dr. Rob W. J. Collin, an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands. His research focuses on developing molecular therapies for inherited eye disorders. As the awardee, Dr. Collin will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF as he has made remarkable contributions to the retinal degenerations and translational research, including the discovery of a record number of novel genes associated with hearing impairment and blindness during his early research period and developing novel genetic treatment strategies for inherited retinal diseases based on splice modulation therapy and (micro)gene augmentation therapy.
The 2017 IJMS Travel Awards have been granted to: Biochemistry—Dr. Yi Ma, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research focuses on Ca2+ associated signaling cascades in plant cells. Molecular Medicine—Dr. Miranda Ween, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia. Her research focuses on respiratory medicine. Biomaterial—Dr. Reza M. Zadegan, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Boise State University, USA. His research focuses on nanomaterials for synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and Nucleic Acid Memory (NAM). These awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each, to attend an academic conference of their choices in 2017.
We would like to thank all the Scientific Committee members for their assiduous evaluation of the candidates and all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics.
The competition for IJMS Travel Awards 2018 will be open from September 2017. Please check https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms for more information closer to that date.
IJMS 2017 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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