Lab Heroes Awards 2025 Nominees

Emily Brown, MacKinnon Lab, Rockefeller University, United States
Inspiring, resilient, organized
"Emily is the most dedicated lab manager—she comes in early to prepare for group meeting, helps repair and coordinate repairs for our lab...
06 Nov 2025 Read More

Eduardo Zimmer, Neuro Lab, University of Rio Grande do Sul Brazil, Brazil
Gem in neurodegenerative Disease
"Through cutting-edge neuroscience and biomarker discovery, Dr. Zimmer’s work advances our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and brings us...
05 Nov 2025 Read More

Brett Duguay, McCormick Lab, Dalhousie University, Canada
The Cloning Wizard
"Brett is an outstanding research associate that I have had the pleasure of working alongside for nearly 5 years (my entire PhD). Brett reminds me of what I...
05 Nov 2025 Read More

Fernando Federicci, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Molecular y Celular, CONICET- University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Considerate, enthusiastic, dedicated
"I am delighted to nominate Dr. Fernando Federicci, postdoc in our lab, as a lab hero. He is an exceptional young scientist whose passion,...
05 Nov 2025 Read More

Duygu Deniz Kazanci, Compevo, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
hardworking, dedicated, kind
"She is one of the most amazing lab people I have ever known. She is very dedicated to her research and is so hardworking that most of the time, she...
05 Nov 2025 Read More

Maria Jesus Bermejo, Laboratorio 426 / Tissue and Organ Homeostasis, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
"Maria Jesus is the glue that sticks the lab together. We all ask for her advice before an experiment. Her experience and ideas are always of great value."
Nominated by Pablo...
05 Nov 2025 Read More

Oyetunde Oyeyemi, Tropical Medicine and Diagnostic Development, University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Nigeria
Insightful, visionary and dependable
"I want to nominate Prof Oyetunde Oyeyemi for his remarkable mentorship, intellectual brilliance and dedication to nurture academic and...
05 Nov 2025 Read More

Florian olde Heuvel, Systems Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Ulm University, Germany
Outstanding, unconventional, independent
"On paper a technical assistant, Florian develops his own ideas, runs his own experiments, and writes his own papers. And then he coaches...
05 Nov 2025 Read More

Gina Tillmann, HITBR, ZI Mannheim, Germany
Warm-hearted, organized, resilient
"Gina is a very warm-hearted person that keeps the whole lab running on her own. She is extremely organized, which is a key to a well run lab....
05 Nov 2025 Read More

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