The ESRF Scientific Committee and Board of Trustees are pleased to announce the recipients of 2009 ESRF New Investigator Awards.

Carrie Ambler (United Kingdom)
Project Title: Epidermal Notch signalling, adult hair follicle patterning, and inflammatory cell recruitment

Eugene de Zwart-Storm (The Netherlands)
Project Title: PPK-deafness syndromes caused by connexin26 mutations are folding diseases

Claus Johansen (Denmark)
Project Title: Inflammation and its role in the development of non-melanoma skin cancer

Andor Pivarcsi (Sweden)
Project Title: Investigation of the role of non-coding RNAs in non-melanoma skin cancers

The committee and trustees thank all applicants for their submissions and congratulates the award winners.

2009 ESRF New Investigator Award Winners