The HENNER GRAEFF FOUNDATION – YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
The HENNER GRAEFF FOUNDATION is the sponsor of a new award at the Winterschool 2020, the ‘Young Investigator Award’.
Young investigators are awarded in recognition of their innovative approaches to their specific topics with a total prize money of 1000.- EUR.
2022
- Natasha Aley (University College London) ATG4B mediates beta catenin expression and 3D spheroid formation in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
- Naiá Porã Santos (University of Salzburg) Functional analysis of phytocystatin 6 from Arabidopsis thaliana revealed amyloid fibril formation
- Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos (Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby) Proteomic and proteolytic landscape of acute human skin repair
2021
- Matthias Koch (KU Leuven) The mechanism securing GSEC-APP interactions and defining Aβ product length
- Jimin Hwang (University of Otago /NZ) Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Anti-chlamydial Covalent Inhibitors Targeting the Novel Bacterial Serine Protease CtHtrA
- Yekaterina Kovalyova (Yale University) An infection-activated redox switch in the lysosomal protease legumain promotes tumor growth
2020
- Alaa ALHAYEK (Saarland University & Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland) Succinimides as novel pathoblocker agents targeting extracellular bacterial metalloproteases LasB and ColH
- Fred ARMBRUST (University of Kiel) APP processing in mouse brains shifts towards β-cleavage upon meprin β overexpression in astrocytes
- Cynthia COLMORGEN (University of Kiel) Cleavage of galectin-3 by meprin α and meprin β in intestinal mucosa
- Anna HOFMANN (University of Kiel) Capturing dynamic protein-protein interactions of intermembrane protease SPPL3
- Giulia MAGNO (Technical University of Munich) Evaluation of the tumor biological role of KLK4 in triple-negative breast cancer
- Kriti PATHAK (University of Kiel) Biochemical characterization of soluble ADAM10 and ADAM17
Best Chairing & Best Speaker – AWARD
Year | Best Chairing | Best Speaker |
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2022 | Ulrich ECKHARD Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB) Evelyn HUTTERER University of Salzburg Walter STÖCKER Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | |
2021 | Barbara GRÜNWALD University Health Network | |
2020 | Ulrich AUF DEM KELLER ETH Zurich Christopher OVERALL University of British Columbia | Alaa ALHAYEK Saarland University & Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland Succinimides as novel pathoblocker agents targeting extracellular bacterial metalloproteases LasB and ColH |
2019 | Christoph BECKER-PAULY University of Kiel Stefan ROSE-JOHN Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | Stefania WUNDERLI ETH Zurich Proteolytic tendon degeneration after physical unloading heavily depends on the patho-physiological niche |
2018 | Lukas MACH University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna | Rielana WICHERT University of Kiel Mucus detachment in the small intestine requires shedding of host metalloprotease meprin β, which is abrogated by pathogenic protease RgpB |
2017 | Guy SALVESEN | Jessica GÖTZFRIED |
2016 | Ulrich AUF DEM KELLER ETH Zurich | Jennifer VANDOOREN KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research Novel insights in matrix metalloproteinase-9 trimerization and its functional implications |
2015 | Ulrich AUF DEM KELLER ETH Zurich | Pernille SØGAARD University of Oxford DDR1 plays a role in spatial regulation of MT1-MMP activity during epithelial tubulogenesis |
2014 | Jim HUNTINGTON University of Cambridge | Elfriede DALL University of Salzburg Structural and mechanistic basis of legumain inhibition by cystatins |
2013 | Walter STÖCKER University of Mainz | Claudia BRODER University of Kiel It’s Make or Break: The Metalloproteases Meprin α and Meprin β are C- and N-Procollagenases associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome VII |