12.4.2024
Press Release Life and Health Research Prize 2024: A Transdisciplinary Win
The TRA Life and Health aims to promote innovative research and transdisciplinary collaboration with the “Life and Health Research Prize”. The project “Systematic analysis of regulators that confer translation specification across species” by Junior Professor Dr. Kathrin Leppek (Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology) and Junior Professor Maximilian Billmann (Institute of Human Genetics) has now been awarded the prize for 2024. The two scientists are working together on the combination of experimental data sets with computer models. This joint work should help to understand huge amounts of data derived from analyses of biological processes with the aim of finding new cellular mechanisms. There are good reasons to believe that these very specific and at the same time very large data sets contain relevant information for the new joint research question on mRNA translation by ribosomes.
In addition to the quality of the planned project, an important funding criterion was that scientists from two different fields are working together.
