Röntgen Award for PD Dr. Johann Matschke
New Targets for Cancer Therapies: Radiation Researcher PD Dr. Johann Matschke Receives Roentgen Award from Justus Liebig University (JLU) Gießen
Radiation researcher PD Dr. Johann Matschke has discovered that tumor cells resistant to radiation therapy can be re-sensitized to radiation treatment. The findings he has obtained “could lead to new targets for cancer therapies,” emphasized Prof. Dr. Sangam Chatterjee (I. Institute of Physics).
PD Dr. Matschke aims to derive new biomarkers for radiation resistance from his findings. For the past four years, he has been leading a junior research group in the field of “Cell Metabolism and Radiation Response” within the research team of Prof. Dr. Verena Jendrossek at the Institute for Cell Biology (Tumor Research).
For his groundbreaking research, PD Dr. Matschke has now been awarded the prestigious Roentgen Award by JLU. The award ceremony took place during JLU’s Academic Celebration on November 29 in the university auditorium. On the evening before, PD Dr. Johann Matschke delivered a Roentgen Lecture at JLU, titled “Outsmarting Cancer Cells: Metabolic Strategies to Overcome Radiation Resistance.”
The award is endowed with prize money of €15,000, jointly sponsored by Pfeiffer Vacuum and the Ludwig Schunk Foundation of the Schunk Group.
Since 1960, JLU has annually presented the Röntgen Award in memory of Nobel laureate Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who served as a professor in Gießen from 1879 to 1888.