Ana Pombo, Professor for ‘Transcriptional Regulation and Genome Architecture’ at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Professor at the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, will be honoured with the 2024 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG). This was announced by the DFG on 11 December 2024. The Leibniz Prize is endowed with funding totalling 2.5 million euros.

Ana Pombo receives the award for her discoveries in genome biology, which have led to a new understanding of gene regulation and the underlying structures within the cell nucleus. These research findings are of great importance for a better understanding of disease processes in the future.

Ana Pombo has been a professor at Humboldt-Universität since 2013 and joined the Max Delbrück Centre at the same time. She is deputy director of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC-BIMSB) and deputy programme spokesperson of the Max Delbrück Center.

Further Informations

Press release of the DFG 

Press release of the Max-Delbrück-Center

Pombo Lab

Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Architecture