MELODI Young Investigator Award
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.