And the MoBBEL Prize of the Tübingen Biochemists goes to ...

We are pleased to recognize the outstanding achievement of Sophia Kieferle, who was recently awarded the MoBBEL Prize of the Tübingen Biochemists for outstanding master's theses. In her master's thesis in Professor Schindler's working group, Sophia dealt with the BioNTech corona vaccine. For her experiments, she treated primary cells such as connective tissue cells, immune cells, vascular cells and muscle cells with the mRNA vaccine from BioNTech. The different cell types serve as a model to replicate the most important cells at the vaccine injection site. Sophia then investigated how much spike protein the cells produced and whether the spike protein is incorporated into extracellular vesicles.

We congratulate Sophia Kieferle on this great achievement and wish her continued success on her scientific path!