A highly endowed award for young researchers in life sciences.
The Frankfurt-based Aventis Foundation will grant up to three annual research awards for young and talented postdoctoral researchers in life sciences. Each award will be endowed with a subsidy amount of € 100,000 to help creative postdocs pursue their innovative research projects and jump-start their careers in life sciences.
On March 31, applications opened for this year’s Life Sciences Bridge Award.
Last year’s Award Winner Daniel Merk and a team at Goethe University Frankfurt discovered another nuclear receptor as responsive to thyroid hormones.
On October 1st, these three talented young researchers were awarded with the “Life Sciences Bridge Award”: Dr. Stefan Pfeffer, Dr. Dominik Niopek and Dr. Philipp Vollmuth.
Last year’s Award Winner Daniel Merk and his team at Goethe University discovered three non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as first known inverse Nurr1 agonists.
Along with a team of biochemists and virologists at Goethe University and the Frankfurt University Hospital, Dr. Christian Münch, one of our Life Sciences Bridge Award winners 2019, was able to observe how human cells change upon infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19 in people.
On March 20, applications opened for this year’s Life Sciences Bridge Award.
On September 12, the following three post-doctoral students of Frankfurt's Goethe University were awarded with the "Life Sciences Bridge Award": biochemist Dr. Inga Hänelt, pharmacist Dr. Daniel Merk and biochemist Dr. Christian Münch.
Why found yet another science award? Because by creating this award, the Aventis Foundation gets the chance to promote both research and talent, and to promote them according to our own ideas...
This year, the Aventis Foundation and Goethe University Frankfurt will collaborate in granting the Life Sciences Bridge – Aventis Foundation Postdoctoral Award to support talented postdoctoral researchers...