Shany Koren received the Cord-Michael Becker award for her outstanding thesis work in molecular medicine. Shany Koren has studied molecular medicine in Erlangen. More details (German): https://www.med.fau.de/2017/10/18/cord-michael-becker-preis-und-absolventenfeier-2017/

Momo who was elected in 2016 and gave a talk at the EMBO members meeting 2017 in Heidelberg: http://embo.org/members/members-meeting

We recently published a work on the tumor suppressor LATS as a key player in the development and treatment of breast cancer. See below the press release by the University of Basel. Uninews release Why does breast cancer develop and how come certain patients are resistant to established therapies? Researchers from the University of Basel…

On December 10th 2016, Momo gave a talk on the “The year in review: Update on basic science discoveries in 2016” at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, Texas, USA. You can download the presentation by clicking here: san-antonio-december2016-m-bentires-alj The video will be available soon on https://www.sabcs.org/2016-Sabcs    

Around 200 researchers took part in the All SystemsX.ch Day in Bern on September 1st, 2016. Among the participants, Atul Sethi, a post-doctoral associate in Michael Stadler’s lab at the FMI and Momo’s lab at DBM, received the prize for the best lightning talk. He presented the work on studying breast tumor heterogeneity using single…

On September 16th 2016, Shany Koren received the Ed Fisher Prize during the FMI annual meeting. The Ed Fischer Prize is awarded annually to a student at the FMI who has performed outstanding thesis work. It is named after Ed Fischer to acknowledge his 1992 Nobel Prize as well as his personal interest in the FMI.…

  Mohamed Bentires-Alj of the FMI has been elected to the membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). He is among the 58 outstanding life scientists from Europe and elsewhere newly elected for EMBO. FMI press release “I am delighted by the addition of 58 outstanding scientists to our membership […]”, EMBO Director Maria…

During the Basel Stem Cell Network Annual Meeting 2016, Shany Koren obtained the Bruno Speck Award for her publication: “PIK3CA-H1047R induces multipotency and multilineage mammary tumors”. Congratulations ! In 2012, Nicola Aceto, PhD student in the lab, also obtained his award for his paper “Tyrosine phosphatase SHP2 promotes breast cancer progression andmaintains tumor-initiating cells via…

In January, Marie-May received the Pfizer Research Award with Kirsten Mertz for their work on CCL2, published in 2014, with Laura Bonapace, former post-doc in the lab. More details about this prize below. FMI Press Release Three FMI Postdocs awarded with the Pfizer Research Prize 2016 Three FMI Postdocs, Marie-May Coissieux, Indranil Banerjee and Yasuyuki Miyake, have…