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   Prof. Helen Arthur

   Newcastle University

   Health and welfare

   Health

   Role of TGFbeta signalling in cardiovascular development and heart repair

   
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   The language of lipids

   AcademiaNet interview with Prof. Valerie O'Donnell

   12.04.2017 | In this AcademiaNet interview, Professor O'Donnell tells us about her research on the relationship between lipids, aspirin and inflammation.

   
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   Dr. Eva Liina Asu

   University of Tartu

   Arts and humanities

   Languages

   Linguistics, Phonetics, intonation

   
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   Cancer: Faulty DNA or Faulty DNA Repair Systems

   09.11.2016 | Cancer can occur when things go wrong in our genes, but also occur when the processes to fix damaged genes goes wrong. AcademiaNet members Dr. Elisabetta Citterio, Dr. Michela Di Virgilio (photo), Dr. Jacqueline Jacobs and Prof. Rocio Sotillo study the mechanisms of DNA repair.

   
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   PhD Deniz Dalkara

   Institut de la Vision

   Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics, Health and welfare

   Biological and related sciences, Health

   Gene delivery technologies and retinal gene therapy

   
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   News

   All About Hormones: Endocrinology

   27.07.2016 | Four AcademiaNet researchers are presented who study steroid hormones: Wiebke Arlt, Elisabet Stener-Victorin (photo), Inger Sundström Poromaa and Mirjam Christ-Crain.

   
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   Prof. Dr. Katayoon Dehesh

   University of California, Riverside

   Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics

   Biological and related sciences

   Molecular Biochemistry

   
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   Globalisation of the Distant Past

   About Nicole Boivin, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Archaeology at University of Oxford

   05.05.2016 | Archaeologist Nicole Boivin studies how humans have become connected across the world, using plant, animal and linguistic evidence. Soon she will start as Max Planck director at the Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany.

   
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   Prof. Elvira Glaser

   Universität Zürich

   Arts and humanities

   Languages

   Linguistics

   
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    Nerve and blood vessel growth: "It's a really fundamental process"

    Interview with Professor Christiana Ruhrberg, Professor of Neuronal and Vascular Biology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

    10.03.2016 | Christiana Ruhrberg studies how nerves and blood vessels grow and branch. Her research has shown how the body uses the same set of molecular signals to instigate blood vessel growth and nerve growth in the eye and brain.

    
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1. Erin Schuman has won the 2022 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award

   Her recent contributions to neuroscience and her status as an inspiring role model landed her the award

2. Ruth Lehmann wins the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

   The developmental geneticist is recognised for her research on germ cells and her mentoring of young female scientists

3. Madeline Lancaster and Sonja Vernes win Blavatnik Awards

   The prizes were given for the development of mini-brains and the investigation of the biological bases of language, respectively.

4. Madeline Lancaster awarded 2021 Vallee Scholarship

   The biologist is recognised for her work on cerebral organoids or ‘mini-brains’, grown from human pluripotent stem cells and used to model human brain development.

5. Ruth Lehmann wins the 2021 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science

   The developmental cell biologist receives the honour for her ground-breaking work on reproductive cells.