Prisca Liberali
Prisca Liberali - FMI group leader Prisca Liberali, who is also a Professor at the University of Basel, receives the Friedrich Miescher Award 2021 for her research on design principles of tissue organization. The Friedrich Miescher Award is awarded yearly to a young scientist based in Switzerland for outstanding achievements in biochemistry. Prisca Liberali shares the award with EPFL Professor Andrea Ablasser. Prisca Liberali is a pioneer in defining mechanisms that drive cell-to-cell variability and its involvement in the emergence of complex cellular traits. She takes a systematic, biochemical approach to understanding the emergent properties of morphologically and functionally distinct cell types from a collection of cells that start out with identical characteristics. This knowledge is essential to elucidate fundamental biological processes, such as cell reprogramming and disease. For their studies, the researchers in the Liberali laboratory develop various cutting edge systems and tools, including 3D intestinal organoids grown from single stem cells and high-content drug screens.
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