Two doctoral students of the DFG-funded Research Training Group 1957 ("Adipocyte-Brain-Crosstalk"), Jana-Thabea Kiehn and Kornelia Johann, have won prestigious prizes from the German Society of Endocrinology (DGE).
Jana-Thabea Kiehn from the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Lübeck receives the Young Endocrinologists Dissertation Award for her 2018 doctoral thesis entitled "Central circadian regulation of leptin signalling". The prize is endowed with 2,000 Euro. "This is a great success for Jana and underlines the excellent quality of the doctoral theses in our GRK 1957," said Prof. Henrik Oster, head of the institute and spokesperson of the Research Training Group.
Kornelia Johann from the Molecular Endocrinology group is awarded the Von Basedow Prize for her work on the role of thyroid hormones in the regulation of body temperature by thermogenic fat depots. The prize is shared with a work by the University of Duisburg-Essen; each prize winner receives 2,500 Euro.
"I am extremely pleased that, following last year's success, we were again able to bring the Von Basedow Prize to Lübeck. This achievement shows that at the Center of Brain Behavior and Metabolism of the University, where both Ms. Kiehn and Ms. Johann are working, we are able to conduct research at a consistently high level," adds Prof. Jens Mittag, head of the research group.
The two award winners have received their awards at this year's 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society in Göttingen on March 20 - 22, 2019.
