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Congratulations to Julia Pazmandi, CeMM and LBI-RUD PhD Student at Kaan Boztug’s laboratory, for winning the Falling Walls Lab Austria competition with her talk “Breaking the Wall of Science and Fiction”, a project in collaboration with CeMM’s VR Holodeck platform. The virtual reality (VR) platform devised and constructed in Jörg Menche´s group at CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, allows scientists to dive deep into the massive molecular networks behind genetic diseases. The unique VR experience provides a first glimpse at how humans and machines will interact in the future to visualize and explore complex medical data. The goal of the Falling Walls Lab is to advance scientific and entrepreneurial visions, and to initiate and promote exchange between outstanding talents and innovative thinkers across disciplines. At Falling Walls Lab Austria, 14 young talents from a wide variety of disciplines were selected to present their ideas and projects in 3 minutes talks in front of a top-class jury under the direction of Hans Sünkel, former Rector of the Graz University of Technology. The winner qualifies for the International Falling Walls Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society on November 8, 2019 in Berlin. Read more about the event, and Julia’s project in collaboration with the Menche lab. picture © Lunghammer, TU Graz:
TU Graz Rector Harald Kainz, Julia Pazmandi and Hans Sünkel, Chair of the Jury