FEBS Journal Prizewinner 2009

We are delighted to announce the prizewinner of the FEBS Journal prize 2009:

Mercedes Nancy Munkonda of the Rheumatology and Immunology Research Center, Laval University, Québec, Canada (currently at: the Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology, Laval University, Québec, Canada), for her outstanding paper:

Characterization of a monoclonal antibody as the first specific inhibitor of human NTP diphosphohydrolase-3: Partial characterization of the inhibitory epitope and potential applications
Mercedes N. Munkonda, Julie Pelletier, Vasily V. Ivanenkov, Michel Fausther, Alain Tremblay, Beat Künzli, Terence L. Kirley and Jean Sévigny
FEBS Journal  276, 479-496, January 2009

FEBS Journal Prizewinner 2008

Simon Gunning of the Department of Medical & Molecular Biosciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, for his outstanding paper:

The Janus-faced atracotoxins are specific blockers of invertebrate K_Ca channels
Simon J. Gunning, Francesco Maggio, Monique J. Windley, Stella M. Valenzuela, Glenn F. King and Graham M. Nicholson
FEBS Journal  275, 4045 - 4059, August 2008

FEBS Journal Prizewinner 2007

Xueyan Zhao of the Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, for her outstanding paper:

The interferon-stimulated gene factor 3 complex mediates the inhibitory effect of interferon-β on matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression
Xueyan Zhao, Susan Nozell, Zhendong Ma and Etty N. Benveniste
FEBS Journal 274, 6456–6468, December 2007

FEBS Journal Prizewinner 2006

Hakan Dortay of the Institute of Biology/Applied Genetics, Free University of Berlin, Germany (currently at: Department of Biochemistry and Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Plant Physiology, University of Potsdam, Germany), for his outstanding paper:

Analysis of protein interactions within the cytokinin-signaling pathway of Arabidopsis thaliana
Hakan Dortay, Nijuscha Mehnert, Lukas Bürkle, Thomas Schmülling and Alexander Heyl
FEBS Journal 273, 4631-4644, October 2006

FEBS Journal Prizewinner 2005

Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc of the Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, for her outstanding paper:

Structure and activity of the atypical serine kinase Rio1
Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc, Tad Guszczynski, Terry Copeland and Alexander Wlodawer
FEBS Journal 272, 3698-3713, July 2005

FEBS Journal Prizewinner 2004

Christian Klammt of the Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, University of Frankfurt/Main Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, for his outstanding paper:

High level cell-free expression and specific labeling of integral membrane proteins
Christian Klammt, Frank Löhr, Birgit Schäfer, Winfried Haase, Volker Dötsch, Heinz Rüterjans, Clemens Glaubitz and Frank Bernhard
European Journal of Biochemistry 271, 568-580, February 2004