ERA-EDTA young investigator Award 2012

Dr Giovana Seno di Marco is the recipient of the young investigator’s award. The long list of candidates is selected out of the highest ranked abstracts of the three previous ERA-EDTA Congresses. In this way, we award not only a brilliant scientist, but also one who is committed to our Society. She accomplished a very varied career and worked fist in Brasil, which is her birth country, then in Paris, France, and is now active in Münster, Germany. She has a degree in biomedical sciences and a specialization certificate in immuno-histochemistry and immuno-cytochemistry, which she obtained in Santiago, Chile. She was awarded three grants, among which one from the Else Kröner Fresenius Stiftung and one from the German Research Foundation (DFG). She received ten awards. She published in total 26 original publications, among which three in Kidney International, two in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, and one in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Plos One, the European Heart Journal, Circulation, the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Molecular Medicine, and the Journal of Hypertension. She came out first among three high quality shortlisted candidates with what I would call a truly international curiculum, which offers her bright perspectives for the future. We are looking forward to the further evolution of her scientific career.