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The prestigious ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Excellence Awards scheme supports early-career group leaders in the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ area who have a scientific research track record of proven excellence. ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Excellence Awards provide funding of €100,000 for research equipment and consumables over a 3-year period.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ is pleased to announce here the researchers selected by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Excellence Awards and Fellowships Committee to receive a ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Excellence Award following the 2025 call. We congratulate the awardees on their selection and wish them success in their next research steps.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ Excellence Awardees 2025:

Patricia Altea-Manzano
Andalusian Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine Centre (CABIMER-CSIC), Spain
Research area: PalmetNICHE: Palmitate-mediated crosstalk in the lung niche supporting breast cancer metastasis
Alexander Belyy
Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Netherlands
Research area: The mechanism of pore formation by bacterial virulence factors
Jack Bravo
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
Research area: Molecular mechanisms of specific plasmid targeting
Jorine Eeftens
Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Netherlands
Research area: Quantifying how structural proteins affect multiscale chromatin mechanics
Noelia Ferruz
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) / University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Research area: Design of endocrine disruptor protein receptors with reinforcement learning
Andrea Fossati
Karolinska Institute, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) / Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Sweden
Research area: Decoding the basis for phage host specificity using spatial interaction proteomics
Rafael Galupa
Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI) – MCD Unit, France
Research area: Exploring the dosage sensitivity of X-linked subunits of multi-protein complexes
Alena Khmelinskaia
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Chemistry, Germany
Research area: Dynamic control of porosity in de novo designed protein cages
Ana Victoria Lechuga-Vieco
Institute for Biomedicinal Research (IRB Barcelona), Spain
Research area: Mitochondrial reprogramming to restore T cell function

Guido van Mierlo
RadboudUMC, Department of Medical BioSciences, Netherlands
Research area: B-SPIRIT: B-cell surface proteins in resistance to Rituximab therapy