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“Cell Communication and Signaling” (CCS). Following Tony Paw-
son in 2010, Tony Hunter in 2011, Carl-Henrik Heldin in 2012, and
Klaus Rajewsky in 2013, the Nobel prize winner Jules Hoffmann
from Strasbourg (France) received this year’s STS/CCS Honora-
ry medal. The laudatio was given by Dieter Kabelitz (Kiel). In his
award lecture entitled “Innate Immunity – from Flies to Humans”,
Jules Hoffmann described his discovery of similarities of genes and
signaling pathways between mammals and insects, leading to the
description of the Toll pathway that controls the response of the
host organism to a challenge by microorganisms. The audience of
STS stipends are awarded to 10 young scientists by STS council members Klaudia Giehl (right) and Ralf Hass (left)
STS Science Award 2014 ceremony sponsored by BIOMOL GmbH (from left to right: Klaudia Giehl, Andreas
Linkermann, Ralf Hass, Edgar Lipsius)
the STS conference was taken in by his charismatic presentation
and he received a well-deserved long-lasting applause for his pre-
sentation.
Another important aspect of the STS joint meeting has always been
the support of young scientists. This year, as many as 10 Bachelor/
Master or MD/PhD students received travel grants of 2,500.--
€
in total to support their meeting attendance. All poster presen-
ters again had the chance to attract the audience to their posters
during the well-known ‘one minute – one transparency’ session
which was again a great success. Moreover, five pos-
ter prizes were selected from the more than 60 poster
presentations and rewarded with a total of 750.--
€
of prize money.
This year’s STS Science Award of 1,000.--
€
, spon-
sored again by BIOMOL GmbH
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) was received by And-
reas Linkermann (Kiel), who presented data on a new
tightly-regulated cell death program which contri-
butes to organ failure, predominantly renal function
collapse.
All in all, the 2014 Meeting ‘Signal Transduction’ was
again a great success. The preparations for the 19th
Joint meeting with a special focus on “Tumor Biolo-
gy” have already started. The meeting is scheduled for
November 2nd to 4th, 2015 and will again take place
at the Leonardo Hotel in the historical city of Weimar.
Details and updated information will be available at
Meeting Report
