Congratulations to the FMI Prize winners 2018

As in previous years, several internal prizes were awarded during the FMI Annual Meeting, a 3 day scientific meeting attended by most scientists in the institute. This year the Annual Meeting took place in Pontresina, in the Swiss Alps. The prizes are the Ed Fischer Prize for the best thesis, the Max M. Burger Prize for the most outstanding postdoctoral publication, and the Chiquet Prize for an original discovery. Learn more about this year's winners. Ed Fischer Prize Silvia Domcke (Schübeler group) and Valentin Flury (Bühler group) were both awarded the Ed Fisher Prize 2018 for outstanding theses in 2017. The prize is named after Ed Fischer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1992 and who was for many years on the Scientific Advisory Board of the FMI. Silvia Domcke is interested in understanding gene regulation and how it gives rise to cell type-specific gene expression patterns.