Lab Heroes Awards 2023 Nominees
Caroline Manicam, Experimental and Translational Ophthalmology, University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
"Caroline is an early career principal investigator who specializes in cell signaling in ophthalmology, with a deep passion for unravelling the complex mechanistic perturbations...
Enrica Boda, Department of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi (NICO), Italy
"Enrica is a strong support in our lab. As my PhD supervisor, she always has my back and gives me lots of encouragement. She's really excited about what we're studying, and her...
Aisha Ameen, Neuromet Group/Drug design and Pharmacology, Copenhagen University, Denmark
"Aisha Ameen is really hard working PhD student. She has worked every day in almost a whole year without any vacations to set up and grow her IPSC-stem cells. She teaches batchelor...
Elia Ranzato, CellPhy Lab-Dept. Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica (DISIT), University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
"I met Elia when I arrived in 2007 as an undergraduate student in the cell culture laboratory. I had little knowledge and few skills. The laboratory and the lab experience with...
Hui Xin Teh, Postgraduate Laboratory, M. Kandiah Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia
"Ms Teh is the Chief Scientific Officer of the Postgraduate Laboratory of the M.Kandiah Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). The...
Michelangelo Corcelli, Maternal and Fetal Medicine, University College London, United Kingdom
"Michelangelo is a remarkable academic with an extremely promising and bright future. He is combining unique technical expertise in advanced imaging with exceptional leadership...
Ivan Tourtourikov, IMDL Genome Centre Bulgaria - Department of Nutrigenomics, IMDL Genome Centre Bulgaria, Bulgaria
"As the Head of Laboratory of IMDL Genome Centre Bulgaria, it is with immense pride and enthusiasm that I nominate Ivan Tourtourikov for the Lab Heroes Awards™ 2023. Ivan has...
Dimitri Dumontier, Pouchelon Lab / Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States
"Dimitri is a postdoctoral fellow in Neuroscience and works on the effect of the environment on brain wiring during development and he is our lab hero! He has kicked off slice...
Rida-e-Maria Qazi, Stem Cell Lab, ICCBS, Pakistan
"Rida is a wholesome person. A strict yet the most loving and caring person you will ever know. With her in the lab, the decora of the lab is well maintained along with a very...
Y-Van Nguyen, Hanks Lab / Dept of Medicine, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke Cancer Institute, USA
"Y-Van is a committed lab manager who is dedicated to the success of our research program. She began as a technician out of undergrad and rapidly displayed the organizational...
Zhe Zhang, Sun Lab / Physiology, Johns Hopkins University, United States
"Zhe always goes above and beyond in the lab. Always willing to help anyone with anything. She's a true lab hero in every sense of the meaning and greatly deserves this...
Sylvie Lachkar, U11838/Team Kroemer, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, France
"Sylvie is the best (especially for westerns ;)) - I hope to continue working at the CRC, and that we can continue to work together! (And she definitely deserves to...
Kenneth Steel, Pickering Lab, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
"When he's not making ground-breaking discoveries in the pain field, he spends his time helping us all smile and be kinder to one another. He motivates us all to be the best...
Lian Liu, State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis , Hong Kong Baptist University , Hong Kong
"She actively coordinates many research exercises of lab members by providing proteomics research support, as she is also free to undertake the responsibility of lab manager, which...
Bibiana Costa, Institute for Experimental Infection Research, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Deutschland
"Bibiana Costa is a very talented, self-motivated and hard-working person pursuing her scientific questions with great determination and curiosity. I have the chance to directly...
Zeyni Mansuroglu, Biology of Phagocytes, Infection and Immunity, INSERM U1016, France
"Among many qualities, Zeyni is dedicated to her work. She is an amazing lab technician who taught me everything that I know. She has been a huge technical and emotional support...
Cláudia Nunes dos Santos, NOVA Medical School, Portugal
"The most inspiring person in the lab. Not only a great PI in mind but also in heart. Deserves and gets the respect and love of all lab members! Without her support or advice I...
Romina Nassini, Chronic Pain Lab Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Italy
"Romina is one of the people who believes most strongly in researching and studying the causes of chronic pain. Currently, she is expecting a baby girl (7 months) and, despite...
Harsha Rani, Disease Epigenomics Lab, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore, India
"Harsha Rani is a brilliant PhD student of my lab and is currently working on the epigenetics of enhancer regulation with the loss of p53 in colorectal cancer. Her work has been...
Fanny Farrugia, Inserm U1215 Neurocentre Magendie, France
"Fanny is engineer in Dr Abrous team at the Neurocentre Magendie (Inserm U1215) which is part of Bordeaux Neurocampus. As lab manager, she manages various important tasks in...