The Attempto Award of the Tübingen Attempto Foundation will go to two young scientists at the HIH this year. They are each endowed with 10,000 Euros.
Dr. Leonid Fedorov is honored for his work on the representation of social actions in the brain. His experiments showed that the neural processes responsible for recognizing individual actions (such as to give) are also activated by the counterpart (here: to take). The result may be interesting for the study of social disorders such as autism but also for robotics.
Dr. Leonid Fedorov (Friedhelm Albrecht/Tübingen University)
Ann-Christin Wendeln is honored for her publication on the influence of the immune memory in the brain on neurological disorders. She showed that inflammatory reactions can change microglia in the brain over the long term. The cells thus possess an ‘immunological memory’, that may influence the course of later occurring neurological diseases.
Ann-Christin Wendeln (Friedhelm Albrecht/Tübingen University)
... read the press release by Tübingen University (in German only)
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