2018 Award Winner: Prof. Andrea Ablasser
Appointment at time of winning the Award: Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Andrea Ablasser, born 1983, receives the € 20,000 prize for her contributions to a key step in the innate immune response, which triggers a frontline defense when cells are attacked by microorganisms.
The Jury: “Andrea Ablasser’s work sheds light on the mechanisms by which other cells are informed about the presence of foreign DNA, and she has recently shown that the same pathway can be triggered in ageing cells, contributing to senescence. This work may lead to novel therapeutic approaches for both microbial infections and autoinflammatory syndromes.”
The official prize ceremony took place at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg, Germany, on June 21, 2018. The laudatio honoring Andrea Ablasser’s achievements was held by Award Jury Chairman Prof. Reinhard Jahn of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen.
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In this Nature podcast, Andrea Ablasser, 2018 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators, speaks to science journalist Geoff Marsh about her contributions to a key step in the innate immune response, which triggers a frontline defense when cells are attacked by microorganisms.
