2018 SciLifeLab Winners
GRAND PRIZE WINNER: TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Christoph A. Thaiss
Christoph A. Thaiss performed his undergraduate studies at the University of Bonn, Yale University, and ETH Zurich, and received his Ph.D. in immunology from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. After the completion of his graduate studies, he became an assistant professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His lab studies environmental impacts on metabolic and inflammatory diseases.
Read his grand prize winning essay here.
FINALIST: GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS
Tim Wang
Tim Wang received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently investigating the structural and functional organization of neocortical circuits as a postdoctoral fellow at the Janelia Research Campus in the laboratory of K. Svoboda.
Read his prize winning essay here.
FINALIST: ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Matthew Savoca
Matthew Savoca received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University studying the foraging behavior of baleen whales and their possible interactions with plastic debris.
Read his prize winning essay here.
FINALIST: CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Ruixue Wan
Ruixue Wan received her undergraduate degree from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China and her Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in Beijing. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua, where she is conducting research on structural and biochemical investigations of the spliceosome to elucidate the mechanism of pre-mRNA splicing and the regulation of the spliceosome.
Read her prize winning essay here.
