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On October 1st, three talented young researchers were awarded
the “Life Sciences Bridge Award”: Dr. Zeynep Altintas, Dr. Frank Biedermann and Dr. Lucas Jae.
For the third time, young researchers were awarded the highly endowed annual “Life Sciences Bridge Award”. At the festive award ceremony in Frankfurt’s Senckenberg Museum, Dr. Zeynep Altintas, Dr. Frank Biedermann and Dr. Lucas Jae received the Aventis Foundation Postdoctoral Award, each endowed with a subsidy amount of € 100,000.
By granting the Life Sciences Bridge Award, the Aventis Foundation aims to provide individual support to talented researchers, to enable them to conduct their own independent research at the earliest possible stage and encourage them to pursue bold and unconventional ideas.
Each year, the awards will be granted in cooperation with specific scientific institutions.
For 2021, the Foundation partnered with research-intensive German universities.
The awards will be given to academics with a doctorate or habilitation, junior professors and tenure track professors who aim for an academic career but do not yet hold full and permanent professorship.
Left to right: Prof. Dr. Werner Müller-Esterl, Dr. Frank Biedermann, Dr. Zeynep Altintas, Prof. Dr. Lucas Jae, Prof. Dr. Günther Wess
Dr. Zeynep Altintas works at the Institute of Chemistry at Technische Universität, Berlin. One of her main research interests is concerned with the design and synthesis of functional biomaterials to facilitate their use in medical, food, and environmental diagnosis
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Dr. Frank Biedermann works at the Institute of Nanotechnology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research focuses on developing practically applicable chemosensors.
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Dr. Lucas Jae works at the Gene Center at LMU München’s Department of Biochemistry. He focuses his research on cellular processes that underly aging and age-related diseases.
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The Aventis Foundation Postdoctoral Award enables them to be less dependent, to realize their research projects and qualify for full professorship. This is meant to provide them with a concrete professional perspective and to encourage them to keep pursuing a career in science.
© Uwe Dettmar