Travel Award

Dear Colleagues,

This year we enjoyed a large number of very highly meritorious applications for our annual Toxins Travel Award. It was not an easy task to select the top two candidates. Nevertheless, with the assistance of our Section Editors, I believe we have identified two outstanding candidates. Thus, as Editor-in-Chief of Toxins, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Toxins Travel Award for 2018:

Travel Award was granted to Dr. Kwok Ho Lam, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Rongsheng Jin’s lab at University of California, USA, and to Dr. Anneleen Pletinck, a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Griet Glorieux’s lab at Campus Ghent University Hospital, Belgium.

Dr. Kwok Ho Lam studies the structure and function relationship of botulinum neurotoxins, with a particular emphasis on the acidinduced channel formation of Botulinum neurotoxin, the inhibition mechanism of nanobodies targeting Botulinum neurotoxin.

Dr. Anneleen Pletinck’s work focuses on the link between uremic toxins and endothelial glycocalyx damage in chronic kidney disease.

We are proud to support these young scientists working in the field of toxinology and wish them further success in their careers.

Editor-in-Chief,
Jay Fox

 
Toxins 2018 Travel Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Karoline Sanches
Monash University
Iman Mehdizadeh Gohari
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Award Committee

Prof. Jay William Fox Chairman
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, Cancer Biology
Prof. Philippe Guerre
Veterinary School Toulouse
Dr. Triantafyllos Kaloudis
EYDAP SA
Dr. Angel Yanagihara
University of Hawaii
Prof. Dr. John Berry

Winner

Laura Biessy
Cawthron Institute
Cecilie Knudsen
Technical University of Denmark
Marcelo Mendes Rabelo
Univeristy of Florida

Winner

Steve Peigneur
Toxicology and Pharmacology, Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

Winner

Elisabeth Varga
University of Vienna, Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology
Miklós Poór
University of Pécs

Winner

KWOK HO LAM
University of California, Irvine
Anneleen Pletinck
Campus Ghent University Hospital

Winner

Marco Pirazzini
University of Padova
Natalie Saez
University of Queensland
Rachel A. Miller
Cornell University

Winner

Kartik Sunagar
Marie Curie Fellow in Dr. Yehu Moran’s lab at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Philipp Wiemann
Dr. Nancy Keller’s lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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