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We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Biomedicines 2022 Young Investigator Award are Dr. Yuyan Jiang and Professor Billy Wai-Lung Ng.
Dr. Yuyan Jiang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University, USA. Dr. Jiang is a highly productive young researcher with special interests in developing next-generation radio-sensitizer, bio-responsive cancer nanomedicine and photoactive ultrasensitive molecular probes for deep-tissue diagnosis. Since the beginning of her scientific career in 2016, she has published 39 peer-review articles in high-ranking journals including Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Chemical Reviews, Accounts of Chemical Research, etc. According to Google Scholar, her research has received > 5,500 citations and her h-index is 36.
Professor Billy Wai-Lung Ng leads the Ng Lab of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the School of Pharmacy, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His research interests are chemical biology, drug discovery, and medicinal chemistry. Professor Ng completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Prior to Harvard, he was a research fellow at University of Oxford, with funding support from the Croucher Foundation and Marie Curie Fellowship. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during his graduate study. He obtained his Ph.D. and B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) in Chemistry from CUHK. He has co-authored more than 20 papers in prestigious journals such as Science,Nature Chemical Biology, Molecular Cell, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and ACS Central Science and also serves as a reviewer for more than 20 journals. Professor Ng was honored as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum in 2022.
As the awardees, Dr. Yuyan Jiang and Professor Billy Wai-Lung Ng will each receive an honorarium of CHF 1000 and an electronic certificate.
We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.
Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Shaker A. Mouse, on behalf of Biomedicines 2022 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Prof. Ting-Feng Wu
Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Dr. Masaru Tanaka
University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Bruno Fonseca
Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit (UCIBIO)
Dr. Stefano Bacci
Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50121 Firenze FI, Italy
Winner
Alessandra Bettiol
Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Italy
Nico Sollmann
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany & Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Paul Rösch
Chairman
University of Bayreuth
Dr. Stefano Bacci
Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50121 Firenze FI, Italy
Prof. Giuseppe Murdaca
University of Genova
Dr. Masaru Tanaka
University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Natalia Komarova
SMC Techological Centre
Winner
Roberta Giuffrida
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Dermatology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Award Committee
Prof. Shaker A Mousa
Chairman
Vascular Vision Pharmaceuticals Co & NanoPharmaceuticals LLC
Dr. Thomas Hieronymus
Department of Cell and Tumor Biology, University Clinic, RWTH Aachen
Prof. Dr. Lanrong Bi
Michigan Technological University
Prof. Concettina La Motta
University of Pisa - Department of Pharmacy
Prof. Jason Collier
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Dr. Christos Kontos
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Mrs. Susana Cardoso
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra
Dr. Masaru Tanaka
University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Bruno Fonseca
Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit (UCIBIO)
Prof. Maurizio Sabbatini
University of Eastern Piedmont - Dep. Science and Technology Innovation
Dr. Patrick Serruys
National University of Ireland Galway
Dr. Jerome Devy
UMR CNRS 7369
Winner
Mateusz Maciejczyk
Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Ergonomics, Medical University of Bialystok
Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan
Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong
Award Committee
Prof. Shaker A Mousa
Chairman
Vascular Vision Pharmaceuticals Co & NanoPharmaceuticals LLC
Prof. Valeria Barresi
University of Verona
Mrs. Susana Cardoso
Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra
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