Lautenschläger Research Prize Goes to Christine Selhuber-Unkel

Award endowed with 250,000 euros - Victoria Ingham to receive junior researcher prize. Christine Selhuber-Unkel | © Tobias Schwerdt - An internationally outstanding representative of the extremely innovative research field "Molecular Systems Engineering", physicist Christine Selhuber-Unkel, is to receive the Lautenschläger Research Prize for 2023. The prize winner from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at Heidelberg University conducts research at the interface of materials science and biophysics on biohybrid life-inspired microsystems. The award comes with prize money of 250,000 euros. Dr h.c. Manfred Lautenschläger, the sponsor of the prize and Honorary Senator of Ruperto Carola, has also established a prize for outstanding early-career researchers. This award, endowed with 25,000 euros, goes to biologist Dr Victoria Ingham. At the Centre for Infectious Diseases of Heidelberg University Hospital, she investigates whether, and if so, to what extent an increasing burden of insecticides and rising insecticide resistance impact on the development of the malaria pathogen and its transmission to humans.