Press Release No. 38
Berlin
Sofja Kovalevskaja Award for Dr. Jan-Erik Siemens: Scientist Returns from the USA to Germany
The biochemist and neurobiologist Dr. Jan-Erik Siemens is one of eight junior researchers to receive this year’s Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). The award stipend will enable the researcher to return to Germany next year after four years as postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, in order to establish a research group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch. The award was presented to the young scientists on Tuesday, November 25, 2008, in Berlin.