07 Feb 2017 - Evgenij Fiskin awarded for PhD thesis.
Evgenij Fiskin has been selected to receive the 2017 Bayer HealthCare Prize to honor his outstanding PhD thesis, which he completed in the Dikic lab at IBC2. The award is donated by Bayer Pharmaceuticals and bestowed by the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) at the Mosbacher Kolloquium (www.mosbacher-kolloquium.org/).
Besides, he was also awarded the PhD prize of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM Promotionspreis) and the Nikon Young Scientist Award of the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ).
During his PhD, Evgenij analysed the role of ubiquitination in bacterial infection, unveiled dynamic changes in the ubiquitinome upon infection and provided a detailed insight into how Salmonella tricks the immune system.
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