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Young Scientist Award
The ESHG awards prizes of EUR 400.- for outstanding research by young scientists presented as a spoken contribution at the conference. All young scientists submitting spoken presentations were encouraged to apply. The nominees are first author (i.e. presenting author) on an abstract submitted for spoken presentation and should not be more than six years post-doctoral. Closing date was January 25, 2006.

Awardees 2006

Young Investigator Awards for Outstanding Science

Carmine Settembre
(Naples) Life without sulfatases: exploiting a mouse model of multiple sulfatase deficiency

Vladimir V. Strelnikov
(Moscow) Identification of methylation and expression abnormalities associated with breast cancer

Anne Fechter
(Heidelberg) Targeted cloning of fragile sites - based on a previous tagging of fragile regions in a breast cancer cell line

Ursula M. Smith
(Birmingham) The transmembrane protein meckelin (MKS3) is mutated in Meckel-Gruber syndrome

Isabelle Oberlé Award

Tjitske Kleefstra
(Nijmegen) Haploinsufficiency of the Euchromatin Histone Methyl Transferase1 (Eu-HMTase1) gene causes the 9q subtelomeric deletion syndrome.

Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award

Samuel Deutsch
(Geneva) Quantitative mapping of loci influencing susceptibility to lentiviral infection

Christoph Lange
(Boston, MA) Screening and replication using the same data set: A testing strategy for case/control studies

Picture gallery of the awarding ceremony

Awardees 2006
Young Investigator Awards for Outstanding Science
Carmine Settembre (Naples)		Life without sulfatases: exploiting a mouse model of multiple sulfatase deficiency
Vladimir V. Strelnikov (Moscow)		Identification of methylation and expression abnormalities associated with breast cancer
Anne Fechter (Heidelberg)		Targeted cloning of fragile sites - based on a previous tagging of fragile regions in a breast cancer cell line
Ursula M. Smith (Birmingham)		The transmembrane protein meckelin (MKS3) is mutated in Meckel-Gruber syndrome

Isabelle Oberlé Award
Tjitske Kleefstra (Nijmegen)		Haploinsufficiency of the Euchromatin Histone Methyl Transferase1 (Eu-HMTase1) gene causes the 9q subtelomeric deletion syndrome.

Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award
Samuel Deutsch (Geneva)		Quantitative mapping of loci influencing susceptibility to lentiviral infection
Christoph Lange (Boston, MA)		Screening and replication using the same data set: A testing strategy for case/control studies
Picture gallery of the awarding ceremony