HFSP Career Development Award to KI researcher

KI researcher Magda Bienko has been selected for the Career Development Award 2016 by the international research funding organisation Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).

In a global competition, eight young scientists received this prestigious award, worth around EUR 260 000 spread over three years, to jump-start their first independent laboratory.

Among the awardees of 2016, selected from 57 applications, is Magda Bienko, Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, and also a SciLifeLab Fellow. She receives the grant for the project “Mapping genome organization and expression landscapes in single cells in early embryonic development.”