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Wilhelm Auerswald Prize 2019 awarded to Michel Owusu

Wilhelm Auerswald Prize 2019 awarded to Michel Owusu
On May 21, 2019, Michel Owusu, former PhD Student at Joanna Loizou´s group at CeMM, has been awarded the Wilhelm Auerswald Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis at an Austrian Medical University. Michel convinced the jury with his study "DNA damage and DNA repair in cancer genomes" and reached the first place in the ranking. Six candidates have been pre-selected and invited to present their work at the Society of Physicians, Billroth House Vienna.  The Wilhelm Auerswald Prize is sponsored by Sanofi-aventis GmbH and was awarded for the 28th time in appreciation of the meritorious work of the Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Wilhelm Auerswald (1917 - 1981). Botond Ponner, Country Medical Chair of Sanofi-aventis GmbH handed over the award, and the jury was chaired by Helmut Sinzinger, Institute Athos Vienna. Congratulations to Michel Owusu for his success, and all the best for his postdoctoral work at the IRB Barcelona! 

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