Research Award
Shubo Zhao receives Promotion Award from the Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft
15.07.2025
Dr. Shubo Zhao has been selected as one of six recipients of the 2025 Promotion Awards of the Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft, which includes a prize of €2,000. She conducted her doctoral research in the lab of Prof. Julian Stingele at the Gene Center, where she made groundbreaking discoveries on how cells respond to DNA and RNA damage. Her work led to the identification of key mechanisms that protect cells from toxic RNA damage and contributed to the establishment of a new research field focused on RNA damage response. Dr. Zhao’s dissertation was awarded summa cum laude and previously recognized by the Römer Foundation. She is currently a guest researcher at LMU and has recently been appointed as a professor at Jilin University, China.