Anne Spang receives Lelio Orci Award 2024
For her pioneering work in the field of intracellular organization, Prof. Dr. Anne Spang from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel will receive the Lelio Orci Award 2024. The award honors outstanding scientists for their research achievements in cell biology.
14 January 2025
The jury recognizes Prof. Spang’s rigorous pursuit of knowledge and novel discoveries regarding the compartmentalization of cellular organelles, proteins, and mRNA. They also greatly appreciated her ambition to study these processes under various conditions and in multiple organisms. The Award was established by Lelio Orci, Emeritus Professor at the University of Geneva in 2015.
Prof. Anne Spang received her chemical engineering and biochemistry training in Germany and France. She obtained her PhD in the group of Elmar Schiebel at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry (Germany) and then joined the lab of Randy Schekman at UC Berkeley (USA) as a postdoctoral researcher. She returned to Germany in 1999 to become an independent group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society. She obtained a professorship at the University of Basel, Biozentrum, in 2005 and was elected as an EMBO member in 2009, an ASCB Fellow in 2020, and a member of the German National Academy of Science, Leopoldina in 2021.
Anne Spang’s work interconnects biochemistry, genetics, and molecular, cell, and developmental biology. Her research focuses on how intracellular traffic and RNA localization, translation, and metabolism regulate cellular asymmetry and stress responses.
The award lecture “Mechanisms of Intracellular Compartmentalization” will take place during the LS2 Annual Meeting in February 2025.
