| Sendol was awarded the regional prize for Europe for his Ph.D. dissertation on cancer and mechanisms of controlling programmed cell death. Sendol received his award and a cash prize of $5,000 at an awards banquet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sendol was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He studied medicine at the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne. After finishing medical school, he entered the postgraduate program in experimental medicine and biology in Zurich. He then joined the MD-PhD program of the University of Zurich. He conducted his Ph.D. work in the laboratory of Prof. Michael Hengartner, where he studied mechanisms of controlling programmed cell death in C. elegans. Sendol is currently a postdoctoral fellow and continues to work on hypoxia responses in C. elegans. He is looking at novel targets to treat melanoma.
The GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists aims to support and reward promising young scientists in their research in the field of molecular biology. Since 1995, the prize has been awarded to over 81 winners from around the world. |
