For the fourth time in a row, the Jung Foundation is sponsoring three medical students at the University of Hamburg. During a digital event, the Foundation awarded this year’s Deutschlandstipendium scholarships to Kira Ayleen Offen, Yi Desheng Denise Yang and Dennis Atug, providing all three students of human medicine with a monthly financial allowance.
Last year, the Jung Foundation funded the iGEM Team Heidelberg 2020 in prestigious academic international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition in the field of synthetic biology. As part of the research project, the team of 16 developed tools to control cellular systems.
Since 2020, the Jung Foundation has been supporting the UKE Foundation in funding a project promoting the establishment of VR technology for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine Hamburg.
Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier received a special honour last year. Together with her US-American colleague Jennifer Doudna, the French biochemist received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 developing the CRISPR-Cas9 system. The CRISPR-Cas9 system enables targeted deactivation and correction of defective genes.
Prof. Anthony S. Fauci, MD, is another pioneer in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The US disease advisor, who has been consulting the United States since Ronald Reagan, has been campaigning for effective containment of the pandemic since its beginning in 2020, calling for tougher coronavirus-related regulations in the US.
In 2020, Prof. Dr. Nenad Ban and a group of Swiss researchers identified a mechanism by which Sars-CoV-2 takes control of human cells. This mechanism causes cells to reduce the production of their own cells, while the production of virus cells is accelerated.