Press Release No. 20
Berlin
Renowned U.S. Award for Dr. Rainer Glass and Dr. Michael Synowitz
For their discovery that endogenous neural precursor cells are apparently able to destroy glioblastomas, the brain researcher Dr. Rainer Glass (Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, MDC, Berlin-Buch) and the neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Synowitz (Helios Clinics Berlin-Buch) have been awarded the Young Investigator Award by the Section on Tumors of the American Brain Tumor Association. Dr. Synowitz accepted the prize of $2,000 on behalf of both researchers at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Their paper was published in the Journal of Neuroscience (March 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 10, pp. 2637 – 2646)*.
