The scientific-peer review of the papers submitted to the call “Excellence in Neuroinflammation” Award 2025 has been completed. The Scientific Committee of the Foundation has selected two joint winners, i.e., the applications by:
Elizabeth M Wood 🇺🇸
- Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Andrés Mateo Baraibar Sierra 🇪🇸
- Department of Neurosciences, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain;
- Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Leioa, Spain;
- Neuroinmunology Group, Biobizkaia Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain;
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain.
In addition to the two awardees, the following applicants have been selected for the exceptional quality of the papers they submitted:
Davide Mangani 🇨🇭
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland;
- Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA;
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Stefano Ministrini 🇨🇭
- Center for Molecular Cardiology, Schlieren Campus, University of Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
Felipe Correa-da-Silva 🇳🇱
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- Endocrine Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Yaseen Awad-Igbaria 🇮🇱
- Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel;
- Research Institute of Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel.
Warmest congratulations to all the awardees!
All the selected applicants have been invited to present their research at the 2025 Excellence in Neuroinflammation Meeting, a one-day meeting that will be held in Italy, on Saturday, October 18, 2025, with the valuable contribution of the Members of the Foundation Scientific Committee.
🔜 More information about the Meeting will be shared soon. Stay tuned for updates!
