Award for innovative drug screening

Dr. Susanne Höing receives the MTZ®-MPI Award 2013 for her outstanding dissertation on the use of stem cells for drug development

On November 14th 2013, the MTZ®foundation will honour Dr. Susanne Höing for her outstanding dissertation. Susanne Höing received her doctoral degree in December 2012 with Professor Dr. Hans Schöler with her dissertation entitled "Phenotypic Screening for Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Mouse and Human Stem Cells". Since 2009, the MTZ®foundation endows a young scientist at the MPI for Molecular Biomedicine with the MTZ®-MPI-Award on a yearly basis. In this way, the founding couple Monika and Thomas Zimmermann wants to foster young persons in their scientific career. The award prize is endowed with 2,500 Euros.