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We are pleased to announce that Aparna Pandey from the IBU has been awarded the Max Burger Prize 2025, along with Josip Ahel and Michaela Schwaiger, in the framework of the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) Science Prizes. Their award-winning research reveals how cells protect their DNA from “jumping genes,” known as retrotransposons. Aparna and her co-authors discovered that the protein complex ChAHP2 acts like a guardian, reading a chemical “off switch” on the DNA to turn off the most active, potentially dangerous retrotransposons. Together with another complex, ChAHP, it forms a two-part defense system that keeps a broad range of these genetic threats under control. According to the prize committee, this work adds a brilliant new piece to our understanding of how cells maintain genome integrity by keeping retrotransposons in check.
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