The prestigious FEBS Excellence Awards scheme supports early-career group leaders in the FEBS area who have a scientific research track record of proven excellence. FEBS Excellence Awards provide funding of €100,000 for research equipment and consumables over a 3-year period.

FEBS is pleased to announce here the researchers selected by the FEBS Excellence Awards and Fellowships Committee to receive a FEBS Excellence Award following the 2024 call. We congratulate the awardees on their selection and wish them success in their next research steps.

FEBS Excellence Awardees 2024:

Gianluca Amadei
University of Padova, Italy
Research area: Stem cell models of early mammalian embryogenesis
Michael Dorrity
EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Research area: Molecular and cellular sources of robustness in development
Omaya Dudin
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Research area: Evolutionary cell biology of multicellular development
Rubén García-Martín
National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Research area: How our cells talk to each other
Mathilde Guzzo
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, France
Research area: Nutritional control of growth transitions in bacteria
Ioanna Keklikoglou
University of Crete, Greece
Research area: Tumour microenvironment and metastasis
Henri Leinonen
University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Research area: Retinal-protective mechanisms of inhibitory catecholaminergic drugs
Jette Lengefeld
Helsinki Institute of Life Science, Finland
Research area: Role of cell size on stem cell aging
Siyao Wang
Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany
Research area: The inheritance of paternal DNA damage response
Abdelrahim Zoued
Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, France
Research area: Proteomic interrogation of the host–pathogen interface

 


The call for applications for FEBS Excellence Awards in 2025 is expected to open 1 April 2025. The closing date will be 1 July 2025.