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The awardees received 500 &euro; award.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>GSCN travel awards <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There is a limited number of travel awards to the GSCN conference available. The awardees will receive free registration and a travel stipend of 400 &euro;.<\/p>\n<p>The following participants have been selected for the GSCN travel awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Germ&aacute;n Camargo Ortega, ETH Z&uuml;rich &#8211; D-BSSE, Basel, Switzerland<\/li>\n    <li>Rui Fan, MPI Molecular Biomedicine, M&uuml;nster<\/li>\n    <li>Fatemeh Ganji, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran<\/li>\n    <li>Jennifer Steens, University Hospital Essen<\/li>\n    <li>Fatma Uzbas, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The travel awards are supported by the GSCN member company <strong>Miltenyi Biotec GmbH<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>GSCN Scientific Awards 2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n    <li>\n    <strong>GSCN Young Investigator Award:<\/strong> <strong>Nico Lachmann<\/strong>, Institute for Experimental Hematology at Hannover Medical School (MHH)<\/li>\n    <li><strong>GSCN Female Scientist Award<\/strong>: <strong>Ana Martin-Villalba<\/strong>, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg<\/li>\n    <li><strong>The GSCN Publication of the Year Award<\/strong> (July 2018 to June 2019) goes to <strong>Germ&aacute;n Camargo Ortega<\/strong>, <strong>Sven Falk<\/strong>, <strong>Pia A. 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