Young Investigator Award

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the IJMS 2021 Young Investigator Award.

Prof. Alessandro D’Urso is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Catania, Catania, Italy. His research interests pertain to supramolecular chemistry and template-aided noncovalent syntheses of (chiral and achiral) supramolecular systems. D’Urso’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is >1300 and his H-index is 21.

Dr. Apostolos Zaravinos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Life Sciences, School of Sciences, European University Cyprus. He has published 12 articles, thus far, in 2021. From 2016 to 2020, he received a Scopus Scientific Citations number of 2921 from 2700 documents, and his H-index is 33.

Prof. Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez is a Presidential Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received over 50 awards, given over 150 invited lectures, is an inventor on multiple patents, and has published approximately 100 manuscripts in several international journals.

Dr. Maria Teresa Caccamo is a Researcher of Physics at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences at Messina University. Her research interests are mainly associated with the experimental investigation. She has an outstanding publication record, constituted by 82 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, with 1259 citations, and an H-index of 21.

Dr. Tiziana Bonifacino is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacy (DiFAR) at the University of Genoa, Italy. Her currently main research interest is in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Tiziana Bonifacino’s Scopus Scientific Citations number is 968 and her H-index is 16.

Each of the awardees will receive an honorarium of CHF 1000 (Swiss Francs) and a certificate. We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation, as well as all the IJMS 2021 Young Investigator Evaluation Committee members for evaluating the many excellent nominations.

Kind regards,
IJMS Editorial Office

 

IJMS 2021 Young Investigator Award

 

 

Past Winners

 

Year: 

2023 2022 2021 2020 2017

Winner

Wentao Li

College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University

Antentor Hinton

Vanderbilt University

Salvador González Gordo

Group of Antioxidants, Free Radicals and Nitric Oxide in Biotechnology, Food and Agriculture, Estación Experimental del Zaidín (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), Granada, Spain.

Edina Poletto

Stanford University

Chiara Mazziotta

University of Ferrara

Award Committee

Dr. Maurizio Battino Chairman

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Dr. Peter Kuppen

Leiden University Medical Center

Dr. Jong-Seok Lim

Prof. Dr. Bo Sun

Sichuan Agricultural University

Prof. Seok-Geun Lee

Kyung Hee University

Dr. Naoki Asano

Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine

Winner

HO-CHANG KUO

Kawasaki Disease Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taiwan.

Suowen Xu

University of Science and Technology of China

John Charles Rotondo

University of Ferrara

Manuel Gomez-Florit

IdISBa - Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands

Luca Falzone

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori "Fondazione G. Pascale", 80131 Naples, Italy.

Award Committee

Dr. Maurizio Battino Chairman

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Dr. Marco Fiore

IBBC-CNR Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Dr. Alexander Y. Tsygankov

Winner

Apostolos Zaravinos

Department of Life Sciences, European University Cyprus

Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

University of Pennsylvania

Alessandro D'Urso

University of Catania

Tiziana Bonifacino

Department of Pharmacy, University of Genoa, Italy

Maria Teresa Caccamo

Messina University

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Claudiu Supuran Chairman

Univeristy of Florence

Prof. Angelo Poletti

Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari

Prof. Dr. Se-Kwon Kim

Winner

Claudio Luchini

University of Verona, Italy

Riekelt Houtkooper

Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Antonios Chatzigeorgiou

Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Vanessa Checchetto

University of Padova

Filippo Rossi

Politecnico di Milano

Winner

Dr. Rob W. J. Collin

Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands