Ana Pombo, Professor of "Transcriptional Regulation and Genome Architecture" at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin and Professor at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, will be honoured with the 2024 Leibniz-Preis of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). This was announced by the DFG on 11 December 2024. The Leibniz Prize is endowed with funding totalling 2.5 million euros.
Ana Pombo receives the award for her discoveries in genome biology, which have led to a new understanding of gene regulation and the underlying structures within the cell nucleus. These research findings are of great importance for better understanding disease processes in the future.
Ana Pombo has been a professor at Humboldt-Universit?t since 2013 and joined the Max Delbrück Centre at the same time. She is Deputy Director of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC-BIMSB) and Deputy Programme Director of the Max Delbrück Center.