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Each year, the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation rewards early-career scientists in the life sciences. The prize focuses in particular on biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology. It is open to researchers working in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.<\/p>\n
Professor Fides Zenk<\/strong>, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), receives the 2027 Engelhorn Research Prize. She holds the NeuroNA Chair of Epigenomics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.<\/p>\n She is honoured for her work on the epigenetic mechanisms that guide the development of the embryo and the brain. Her laboratory uses brain organoids, three-dimensional models grown from stem cells. She shares the prize with Mirco Julian Friedrich, of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg.<\/p>\nKey figures<\/h3>\n
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