2023 Symposium
Scholars from all five of the different European Amgen Scholars Programme institutions gathered in Cambridge once again - participants from the LMU, ETH Zurich, Institut Pasteur, Karolinska Institutet and University of Cambridge programmes spent 3 days staying at Clare College in early September 2023. Across the programme there were many talks and workshops and - as always - the chance for scholars to network and share their hard work in the various poster presentation sessions. Many alumni from the past ASP programmes attended to share their experiences with the new cohort, and speakers from Cambridge and Amgen provided inspiring talks and encouraging words in the workshops.
The top posters from each institution were celebrated in an awards ceremony at the end of the schedule, before attendees gathered again for a drinks reception and formal dinner to celebrate their achievements together.
2023 Poster Winners
| Programme | Scholar Name | Poster Title |
| LMU Winner | Laura Bartkova | From Tangles to Freedom: Deciphering the mechanism of Tau fibril disaggregation by the VCP chaperone machinery |
| LMU Runner-up | Florina Abazi | Revitalizing Photosynthesis Uncovering the Role of Raf2 in Rubisco Folding |
| Institut Pasteur Winner | Margarida Bonifacio | Molecular Determinants of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus NS5 Protein Nuclear Localisation |
| Institut Pasteur Runner-up | Elysa Lim | Exploring the Synergy between ExoY and ExoT Toxins from Pseudomonas aeruginosa using Cell Infection Model |
| Karolinska Institutet Winner | Júlia Aguilar García | Characterisation of OLA1-bound tRNA profiles in Plasmodium falciparum |
| Karolinska Institutet Runner-up | Alannah Hyland | Jamming with JAML – The role of an underappreciated co-stimulatory protein in NK-cell mediated anti-tumour immunity |
| ETH Zurich Winner | Zofia Olszewska | Microfluidic droplet spotting platform for antimicrobial susceptibility testing |
| ETH Zurich Runner-up | Josephine Almekinders | Phage engineering: host range expansion and beyond |
| University of Cambridge Winner | Pablo Luengo | Developing tools to study the localisation and function of metabolic enzymes in Drosophila melanogaster |
| University of Cambridge Runner-up | Magdalena Lechowska | Functional analysis of the GEL complex as ER-resident insertase |