ETH Medal for excellent research: cell-cell interactions | CRISPR screening technology

Costanza Borrelli who studied cell-cell interactions during her doctorate in the Moor Lab, and Antonio Jose da Silva Santinha from the Platt Lab, inventor of a novel technology for single-cell CRISPR screening, received the 2024 ETH Medals for their doctoral theses. Big congratulations!

Constanza Borelli, D-BSSE ETH-Medalist

Borrelli, C. (2024) Systems biology approaches to decipher cell-cell interactions. Doctoral thesis

Constanza now works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics of Prof Gabriel Victora, The Rockefeller University, New York.
 

Antonio da Silva Santinha, D-BSSE ETH Medalist

Da Silva Santinha, A. (2024) AAV-Mediated Single-Nucleus CRISPR Screening of the 22Q11. 2 Deletion Syndrome in vivo. Doctoral thesis

Since February 2025, Antonio is a Postdoc in the group of Hans Clevers at Roche’s Institute of Human Biology.

Find information on the ETH Medal.

Learn about research in the Systems Physiology Lab led by Andreas Moor and the Biological Engineering Lab led by Randall Platt.