Zainab Kidwai

Thomas Hutschalik creates different heart cell types from stem cells and combines them together. By checking how their rhythm is influenced by, for example, immune cells, he tries to help improve patients’ treatments.

Victoria Reyes-García (PhD in Anthropology, 2001, University of Florida) is ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). Her research focuses on the relevance of Indigenous and local knowledge systems in understanding and addressing environmental and climate crises. Climate change is the most urgent and complex problem…

In radiology, how can we reduce the entrance surface dose while keeping the obtained image acceptability for routine radiographic examinations to improve diagnosis quality? Hamza Sekkat uses a phantom and solid-state detector/multisensor to optimize the radiation dose and image quality by selecting image parameters that give an acceptable one with…

Nominated by: Barbara Mehner, XPRENEURS – UnternehmerTUM Presented by: Francesco Sciortino

Nominated by: Leibniz Universität Hannover Presented by: Alexander Börgel

The nominating institution UCSD on the breakthrough: Neurons are progressively dysfunctional in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, for which symptoms may take years to appear. Xiang-Dong Fu has discovered a new strategy to convert astrocytes into functional neurons, and rebuild lost neural circuits. This may lead to disease reversal.…

The nominating institute Technische Universität Braunschweig on the project: Vaccines cannot cure COVID-19. We need an additional medication to cure the infected, and protect the risk populations that are expected to respond to vaccination with success rates far below 100%. This can be achieved by using human antibodies, exactly the…

To remove heavy metals from produced wastewater, Praise Eromosele proposes using sawdust, a natural adsorbent from wood factories, in place of the more expensive methods, ultimately creating a sawdust “cycle”.

We compared the characteristics of complicated and uncomplicated pediatric liver transplant recipients. We found a parameter in the early postoperative period that could predict complications.   Tags: Med-Tech, Health Sciences.

The nominating institution Nanyang Technological University on the breakthrough: Significant progress has been made in developing bioinspired sensors and actuators based on synthetic materials, although there remains a critical need to incorporate cost-effective and ecofriendly materials. Naturally abundant pollen grains were used as a material template to produce a paper-like…