Clemens Plaschka receives 2024 Eppendorf Award

Clemens Plaschka, Group Leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), received the 2024 Eppendorf Award for Young Investigators in recognition of his groundbreaking research on the molecular mechanisms of messenger RNA maturation.

A jury of researchers that acts independently from the company sponsoring the award selected IMP Group Leader Clemens Plaschka as this year’s winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. The award acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts. Plaschka is being recognised for his contributions to revealing the structural mechanisms by which human messenger RNA (mRNA) is made.

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