MELODI Young Investigator Award

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List of MELODI Awardees:

2024:

Anna-Jasmina Donaubauer

Affiliation: Translational Radiobiology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Uniklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Awarded at: 8th European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW2024), Rome, Italy, 11-15 November 2024.

Presentation title:

Prospective clinical trials in low dose radiation research – analysis of the immune-modulatory effects of therapeutically applied low dose IR

 

2023:

Katalin Bettina Balázs

Affiliation: National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy, Budapest, Hungary

Awarded at: 7th European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW2023), Dublin Ireland, 9-13 October 2023.

Presentation title:

Acute and long-lasting immunological changes in head and neck and prostate cancer patients treated with different radiotherapy protocols

 

2022:

Lisa Deloch

Affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander- Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Awarded at: 6th European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW 2022), Estoril, Portugal 9-14 October 2022.

Presentation title:

Osteoimmunological Modulations after Exposure to Low Doses of X-rays and Radon

 

Raghda Ramadan

Affiliation: Radiobiology Unit, Interdisciplinary Biosciences Group, Belgian Nuclear Research Center (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium

Awarded at: 6th European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW 2022), Estoril, Portugal 9-14 October 2022.

Presentation title:

Radiotherapy-induced cardiovascular diseases: Novel molecular mechanisms and potential radioprotective strategies

 

2021

Nicola Alessio

Affiliation: University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

Awarded at: 5th European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW 2021), Vienna, Austria, 22-25 November 2021.

Presentation title:

Low Dose Radiation promote aging by release of IGFBP factors: a study on mesenchymal stromal cells.

 

Milagrosa López Riego

Affiliation: Stockholm University, Sweden

Awarded at: 5th European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW 2021), Vienna, Austria, 22-25 November 2021.

Presentation title:

Impact of radiation quality and other sources of response variability on the cellular effects of chronic and acute exposure

 

2020:

Bjorn Baselet

Affiliation: Radiobiology Unit, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN, Mol, Belgium

Awarded at: MELODI Workshop on the Effects of spatial and temporal variation in dose delivery, virtual event organized on 18-20 November, 2020.

 

Mieke Verslegers

Affiliation: Radiobiology Unit, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN, Mol, Belgium

Awarded at: MELODI Workshop on the Effects of spatial and temporal variation in dose delivery, virtual event organized on 18-20 November, 2020.

 

2019:

Giorgio Baiocco

Affiliation: University of Pavia, Italy

Awarded at: 4th European Radiation Protection Week 2019 (ERPW 2019), Stockholm, Sweden, 14-18 October, 2019.

Presentation title:

From radiation-induced initial events to the biological response: “tracks” to follow

 

2018:

Andrea Borghini

Affiliation: CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy

Awarded at: 3rd European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW2018), Rovinj (Croatia), 1-5 October 2018.

Presentation title:

Medical radiation exposure and biological effects: insights from a molecular epidemiology approach

 

2017:

An Aerts

Affiliation: SCK•CEN, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre

Awarded at: 2nd Radiation Protection Week (ERPW2017), Paris, France, 10-12 October 2017.

 

2016:

Uta Eberlein

Affiliation: University Hospital Würzburg, Germany

Awarded at: 1st Radiation Protection Week (ERPW2016), Oxford, UK, 19-23 September, 2016

Presentation title:

Relationship between internal dosimetry and DNA double strand breaks in lymphocytes after radionuclide therapy

 

Britta Langen

Affiliation: University of Göteborg, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Dpt of Radiation Physics

Awarded at: 1st Radiation Protection Week (ERPW2016), Oxford, UK, 19-23 September, 2016

 

2015:

Julia Hess

Affiliation: Helmholtz München – Research Unit of Radiation Cytogenetics

Awarded at: 7th MELODI Workshop, Munich, Germany, 9-11 November, 2015.

 

2014:

Liz Ainsbury

Affiliation: Public Health England, UK

Awarded at: 6th MELODI Workshop, Barcelona (Spain), 7-9 October 2014.

 

2013:

Anna Acheva

Affiliation: STUK, Finland

Awarded at: 5th MELODI Workshop, Brussels (Belgium), 8-10 October, 2013.

Presentation title:

3-D Skin and Lung Epithelial Models for Radiation Biology Studies.

 

Luca Mariotti

Affiliation: University Pavia, Italy

Awarded at: 5th MELODI Workshop, Brussels (Belgium), 8-10 October, 2013.

Presentation title:

Systems Radiation Biology to Model Non-linear Effects.

 

2012:

Kristian Unger

Affiliation: Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Awarded at: 4th MELODI Workshop, Helsinki (Finland), 12-14 September, 2012.

The call for the MELODI Award 2025 targeting young researchers is now open for applications.

Application deadline: 10. May 2025.

The candidates will be informed about the selection procedure by 31. July 2025. The winner will be invited to the 9th European Radiation Protection Week 2025 (ERPW 2025) held in London, UK, 29-3. October 2025.

 

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