CeMM PI Georg Winter wins Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2019
An independent jury chaired by Reinhard Jahn, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, selected and announced CeMM Principal Investigator Georg Winter as the 2019 winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. Congratulations to Georg! Georg Winter receives the prize for his pioneering work developing a method for targeting specific proteins for degradation. The award ceremony will take place on June 27, 2019 at EMBL Heidelberg. Since 1995 the Eppendorf Young Investigator Award is granted annually to European researchers not older than 35 years. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts. The prize reflects the wish of the company’s founders, Heinrich Netheler and Hans Hinz, to show the close links of Eppendorf to the biomedical fields. The award includes prize money of € 20.000 and the coverage of the awardee’s work by the scientific journal Nature. Georg Winter studied Biotechnology and performed his undergraduate studies with Thomas Jenuwein at the IMP in Vienna. He undertook his graduate studies with Giulio Superti-Furga at CeMM, the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow with James Bradner at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School. In 2016 Georg joined CeMM as Principal Investigator.
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