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Dr. Varun Venkataramani bags Eppendorf research award
Presented in partnership with the scientific journal Nature, the award comes with a 20,000 Euro prize money.
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Staff Reporter - Fri, 11, Jul 2025
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Eppendorf declared the award on July 3 / LinkedIn/@ Eppendorf
Dr. Varun Venkataramani has been awarded the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators.
The awards were first established in 1995 to acknowledge outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe.
The award comes with a 20,000 Euro prize money and is presented in partnership with the scientific journal Nature.
Thanking the organizers, upon receiving the award, he expressed gratitude to all those "who enabled this lovely ceremony" and added "Thank you for the laudation”.
He also talked about his work on the discovery and characterization of synaptic neuron-tumor networks driving brain tumor progression, explaining different aspects of his work in great detail.
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In a statement, Eppendorf said that the jury panel recognized Venkataramani's work as "truly ground-breaking".
It also added that, "The jury acknowledged the importance of the emerging field of neuro-oncology and Dr. Venkataramani‘s role in unravelling how neurons and tumors interact and the translational potential of his work."
Prof. Laura Machesky, chair of the jury of Eppendorf Awards announced the award and said, "Congratulations to Dr. Varun Venkataramani on winning the 2025 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators for his research on how synaptic neuron tumor networks can drive brain tumor progression."
In her address, jury member Dr. Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology said, "Varun Venkataramani, had the insight to consider how the brain and glioma may be connected, opening a new field of tumor connectomics."
Venkataramani completed medical studies at Heidelberg University in 2016. He then completed his MD in 2019 and his PhD thesis in 2020 at University of Heidelberg, both attaining a summa cum laude. It was during his PhD and then postdoc from 2019 to 2022, working with Professor Dr. Frank Winkler and Professor Dr. Thomas Kuner, that Varun first became interested in whether and how brain and tumor cells might connect.
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