Edoardo Longarini receives the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize

24/06/2025

Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of molecular medicine to CGA alumni member

Vice President Dr Asifa Akhtar, Dr Edoardo Longarini and his former doctoral supervisor Dr Ivan Matic at the award ceremony for the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize in June 2025
Vice President Dr Asifa Akhtar, Dr Edoardo Longarini and his former doctoral supervisor Dr Ivan Matic at the award ceremony © David Ausserhofer / Max Planck Society

We are happy that Edoardo Longarini, former PhD student of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research, has been awarded the prestigious Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize on June 24, 2025.

The Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize is awarded every two years by the Max Planck Society for outstanding scientific work in the field of molecular medicine and is endowed with 3,000 euros. This year's award ceremony took place during the annual meeting of the Max Planck Society in Magdeburg.

At the award ceremony, Edoardo was joined by his doctoral supervisor, Dr. Ivan Matic, who paid tribute to his former doctoral student's career and scientific achievements in a laudatory speech. Dr. Matic emphasised that Edoardo had developed innovative methods and made groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of PARP1 biology, ADP-ribosylation, chromatin research, and DNA damage response during his time as a doctoral student. This work has attracted considerable attention and is influencing new research projects at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and beyond.

"I am honoured that my doctoral work has been recognised with this award and I am very grateful to my supervisor Dr. Ivan Matic and the lab members for their support," Edoardo said after the ceremony.

During his doctoral studies, Edoardo researched serine ADP-ribosylation, an important protein modification involved in DNA damage repair. He developed a new technique that enabled this research and demonstrated that there are two signalling waves in DNA repair.

Edoardo is currently working as an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Tom W. Muir at Princeton University (USA) on the topic of "Proteins in complex biological systems" and at the interface between cell biology, biochemistry and organic chemistry. We wish Edoardo all the best as he embarks on his next chapter in his research journey and are truly eager to witness the exciting new discoveries that will surely follow.

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