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Björn Brandenburg, an MPI-SWS faculty member, has been awarded the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering. The award—North America’s most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations—recognizes recent doctoral recipients who have already made unusually significant and original contributions to their fields.

Lorenzo Alvisi, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has been selected for a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award provides support for him to spend up to a year at the institute, where he will work with Peter Druschel and other MPI-SWS researchers on fault-tolerant computing for multi-core servers.

Ruzica Piskac, an MPI-SWS faculty member, has been awarded the 2012 Patrick Denantes Prize for her dissertation titled „Decision Procedures for Program Synthesis and Verification.“ The prize is awarded annually to the most outstanding master’s, doctoral or post-doctoral research project within the school of computer and communication sciences at EPFL.

Krebserkrankungen sind schwer zu behandeln, weil sich Tumore in jedem Patienten anders verhalten und im Laufe der Zeit verändern. Mehr Erfolg ist daher von Therapien zu erwarten, bei denen mehrere Medikamente miteinander kombiniert werden. Dafür müssen die molekularen Besonderheiten des jeweiligen Tumors bestimmt werden. Diesen Ansatz verfolgt Thomas Lengauer, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, seit langem erfolgreich für die HIV-Therapie. Gemeinsam mit seinem früheren Mitarbeiter [...]