FMI science prizes - winners 2022

The three FMI internal science prizes are awarded yearly and recognize respectively the best thesis, the best postdoc study and an ingenious new method or tool. The prizes 2022 were awarded last week at the FMI Annual Meeting, in Grindelwald, in the Swiss Alps. Read more about the winners and their projects. ED FISCHER PRIZE - This prize recognizes the best thesis defended by an FMI student in the previous year. It is named after Edmond H. Fischer (1920-2021) who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1992 and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FMI for many years. Simon D'Aquin , a former PhD candidate in the Lüthi lab and now a postdoc at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, was awarded the Ed Fischer Prize 2021 for his thesis entitled "Compartment-specific plasticity in the lateral amygdala during fear learning". The committee was impressed by the quality of his written thesis and how he overcame technical challenges to perform his experiments that revealed fundamental insight into the in vivo cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying associative learning.