The Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research
The Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research was established in 2014 to honor the memory of Anne Heidenthal (1968-2010). Anne Heidenthal was an accomplished researcher with a Ph.D. in Cardiovascular research who played a very important role in Chroma’s history. Anne led the opening of Chroma’s first international sales office in Germany in 2006. In preparation, she spent two years in Vermont working at Chroma’s main facility in Bellows Falls to learn the business and become deeply knowledgeable about our products and operations. Her commitment and energy laid the foundation for our future success.
She returned to Germany in 2006 and Chroma GmbH officially opened in August. In 2010 Anne tragically passed away shortly after Georg Draude, Chroma GmbH’s current Manager, joined Chroma. Her death was a terrible loss to the Chroma family.
The Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research is awarded to a young scientist who presents extraordinary research in the field of fluorescence imaging. This award is presented annually at the International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease. The prize is 2000 Euros or Dollars (depending on which country the conference is held). The decision on the awardee is made by the year’s chairing scientists and presented annually by Georg Draude.
Below are the past recipients of the Anne Heidenthal Prize for Fluorescence Research award.
Recipients
2023 – Prisca Liberali, PhD
Prisca has been trained as a physical organic chemist with a focus on the dynamical understanding of organic chemical reactions. She then changed fields for her PhD and became a molecular cell biologist. She has developed single-cell methods to study cell-to-cell variability and its involvement in the emergence of complex cellular traits. Since a few years she has become fascinated by the role of self-organisation in collective cell behaviours , and how these can control intracellular signalling in single cells. Because these emergent phenomena have multiple layers of biological organisation at different scales, she believes that novel experimental, quantitative and statistical methods are required to integrate our understanding of single-cell biology. Currently, she is a professor at the FMI with a lab focused on dynamics of self-organisation, and how cellular signalling dictates its spatial-temporal regulation.
Helena Radbruch
2022 - Artem Sokolov
Artem Sokolov is an Instructor in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and serves as the Director of Informatics and Modeling at the Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology (LSP). He completed his PhD in bioinformatics at Colorado State University. Artem has extensive expertise in machine learning and computational biology, and his research is focused on developing robust, interpretable methods that naturally integrate with biological domain knowledge.
His paper highlights computational tools that are built for doing end-to-end analysis of highly-multiplexed images. - “Getting the most out of highly-multiplexed images of tissues and tumors”.
2021 - Helena Radbruch
The pathologic institute of the Charité clinic in Berlin for her work on Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19.
2019 - Emma Lundberg
Emma Lundberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden for her work dissecting the spatiotemporal subcellular organization of the human proteome
2018 - Pavak Shah
Pavak Shah for work on ShootingStar: Imaging Technologies for Single Cell Analysis in vivo.
2017 - Jeffrey Moffit
Jeffrey Moffit, Harvard University, seminal contribution to the development of single molecule RNA FISH imaging technologies.
2015 - Kazuki Tainaka
Kazuki Tainaka,Tokyo University, for the development of CUBIC method (Clear, Unobstructed Brain Imaging cocktails and Computational Analysis). The CUBIC method is a newly developed imaging method using a combination of chemical discoloration and light-sheet fluorescence microscopy to achieve extremely detailed pictures of the inside of individual organs and even entire organisms. He also authored two recent Cell papers on whole-body / whole-brain imaging with single-cell resolution.
2014 - Bernd Bodenmiller
In recognition of his work on mass cytometry and mass based imaging.
