The Hector Research Career Development Award honors young researchers on their way to becoming professors. This year, it will be awarded to Dr. Viola Introini, among others. She is head of the “Vascular Infection” research group at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM). As a prize…

The newly established Jochen Guck Award was presented for the first time. It honors research, which applies Brillouin Microscopy in Biology. The first recipients are Konstantin Hein and Humberto Romero Limon, both PhD students at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM).

Dr. Viola Introini has been awarded the Early Career Scientist Prize in Biological Physics by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). She receives the prize for her novel physical approach to malaria research. Her lab at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM)…