Bial Award in Biomedicine2023 Edition

The Bial Award in Biomedicine 2023 ceremony took place on February 20 at the Reitoria da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and it was attended by the Minister of Health, Manuel Pizarro.

The Winning Work

A research work on brain tumour won the third edition of the Bial Award in Biomedicine. The winning team was led by researchers Varun Venkataramani, Frank Winkler, and Thomas Kuner, from the University of Heidelberg, in Germany.

"Glutamatergic synaptic input to glioma cells drives brain tumour progression"

Authors | Corresponding authors*: Varun Venkataramani*, Dimitar Ivanov Tanev, Christopher Strahle, Alexander Studier-Fischer, Laura Fankhauser, Tobias Kessler, Christoph Körber, Markus Kardorff, Miriam Ratliff, Ruifan Xie, Heinz Horstmann, Mirko Messer, Sang Peter Paik, Johannes Knabbe, Felix Sahm, Felix T. Kurz, Azer Aylin Acikgöz, Frank Herrmannsdörfer, Amit Agarwal, Dwight E. Bergles, Anthony Chalmers, Hrvoje Miletic, Sevin Turcan, Christian Mawrin, Daniel Hänggi, Hai-Kun Liu, Wolfgang Wick, Frank Winkler* & Thomas Kuner* Published: Nature, Volume 573, P532-538, September, 2019.

Jury

President
Ralph Adolphs
Members
European Research Council
Sarah Bray
Nektarios Tavernarakis

Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities
Maria do Carmo Fonseca
Fátima Carneiro

European Medical Association
Vincenzo Costigliola
Olga Golubnitschaja
Scientific Board of the Bial Foundation
Hugo Critchley
Menno Witter
Previous winners of the Bial Award
Daniel Pipeleers
Peter St. George-Hyslop

Scientific Journals
Kamran Abbasi- BMJ
Eric Rubin - NEJM

Nominations received:
70

Learn more about the winning work here. Watch the testimony from the President of the Republic here.

Watch the full version of the Award Ceremony here, and the compilation of interviews with the speakers and awardees here.

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