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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…

María holds an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from Leiden University. During her Master’s training, she gained international research experience in infectious diseases at EMBL Barcelona and in metabolism at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, where she continued working as a…

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)…

Viola’s short article about her move to Erlangen and the start of the Vascular Infection Research Group is now online on the Infect-Net website. She has recently joined Infect-Net, a network of German scientists working on infectious diseases, and is excited to contribute to their homepage team to…

She completed her PhD in Clinical and Molecular Virology in Erlangen, where her research focused on antibody-mediated protection against cytomegalovirus, a member of the herpesvirus family.

Beyond her passion for research and medicine, Larissa is an enthusiastic photographer. For her, research and…

Malaria is one of the most common causes of death among children worldwide and represents an enormous health and economic burden. At the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM), Dr. Viola Introini and her newly established research group are conducting research into the disease caused by…