Academic Awards
Poster prize at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the German Physiological Society (DPG) in Vienna and prize for the best talk at the European Kidney Summer School (EUKISS) 2024 in Frankfurt am Main for Elena Sofia Heinl from the research group of Prof. Schweda (subproject C3). Congratulations!
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Poster prizes for Kathrin Skoczynski and Andre Kraus, project A2, at the Congress of Nephrology of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN) 2024 in Berlin.
Kathrin Skoczynski and Andre Kraus are both working in the Buchholz group on the mechanisms of cyst growth in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Kathrin Skoczynski reported that pharmacological inhibition of the characteristic lipid peroxidation in cyst epithelium led to a reduction in cyst growth in vitro and in an ADPKD mouse model. Andre Kraus investigated the transport of ATP into the interior of the cyst, which is relevant for cyst growth, and characterized both the functional relevance and the regulation of the ATP channel Pannexin-1.
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Dr. med. Victoria Forschbach will be awarded the doctoral prize of the Forschungsstiftung Medizin 2024 for her dissertation "Anoctamin 6 is localized in the primary cilium of renal tubular cells and is involved in apoptosis-dependent cyst lumen formation" in the category "Basic Research". Congratulations!
The Forschungsstiftung Medizin awards this prize annually to two graduates of the Faculty of Medicine at Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg for the best work in clinical or basic biomedical research. The prizes are endowed with 1,000 Euros each.
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Congratulations! Professor Kerstin Amann, vice spokesperson of the TRR 374, has received the ERA 2024 Award for Research Excellence in Nephrology.
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