Great honour for one of the youngest MHH doctors

Laura Hinze with her working group. Copyright: Karin Kaiser / MHH - 24-year-old Laura Hinze receives a grant endowed with almost three quarters of a million euros from German Cancer Aid As one of the youngest female doctors ever, Dr. Laura Hinze has been honoured by the German Cancer Aid in the Max Eder Junior Research Group Programme. The 24-year-old doctor and researcher from Hanover Medical School (MHH) will receive funding of more than 743,000 euros spread over four years to expand her own research group and continue her scientific career. "This is an outstanding success for the promotion of young scientists at MHH," says MHH President Michael Manns. "Laura Hinze is an exceptional talent. Actually, she was still too young to take part in the funding programme. Fortunately, German Cancer Aid granted an exemption." "I aim to understand why leukaemia cells and other cancer cells do not respond to therapies, and to this end I am investigating the amino acid and protein degradation of cancer cells at the molecular level with my research group," explains Dr Laura Hinze, who works in the MHH Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology.