Scientific prizes and awards / General

Hugo Geiger Prize

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Description

This prize is awarded for three outstanding, application-oriented theses or dissertations in the life sciences field. The first prize is worth €3,000, the second €2,000 and the third €1,500.

Recipients

Hugo-Geiger-Prize 2005 :
Dipl.-Biol. (t.o.) Xin Xiong
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgart

Where humans meet fungi
If the immune system is weakened, harmless yeast fungi can become a deadly threat: With the aid of various proteins they can penetrate human tissue. In his university thesis Xin Xiong examined how one of these proteins behaves in fungus cells.