Bruno Speck Award 2016

Basic research:
Shany Koren - Group of Mohamed Bentires-Alj in Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel.
Publication: “PIK3CA-H1047R induces multipotency and multilineage mammary tumors"

Koren S, Reavie L, Silva J, De Silva D, Stadler M, Roloff T, Britschgi A, Eichlisberger T, Kohler H, Aina O, Cardiff RD, Bentires-Alj M.
published in
Nature 525:114-8 (2015).

Clinical research:
Jörg Halter and Michael Schüpbach - Group of Alois Gratwohl /Jakob Passweg at the Clinic of Hematology, University Hospital Basel & the Department of Neurology, Inselspital Bern
Publication: “Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy”

Halter JP,* Schüpbach MWM,* Mandel H, Casali C, Orchard K, Collin M, Valcarcel D, Rovelli A, Filosto M, Dotti MT, Marotta G, Pintos G, Barba P, Accarino A, Ferra C, Illa I, Beguin Y, Bakker JA, Boelens JJ, de Coo IF, Fay K, Sue CM, Nachbaur D, Zoller H, Sobreira C, Pinto Simoes B, Hammans SR, Savage D, Martí R, Chinnery PF, Elhasid R, Gratwohl A,# Hirano M. #
*, # equal authorship
published in
BRAIN, a Journal of Neurology 138:2847-2858 (2015)