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In a crowd hungry for knowledge, an intense poster competition has taken place. The contest has never been this close. Please welcome the winners of the ECR Poster  Competition 2025! Our two champions and six runners-up should be proud of their outstanding presentations.

This year’s participants left the HUPO World Congress with honourable certificates and winners received prizes sponsored by Pelago Bioscience. Congratulations to all, and we look forward to seeing new rising stars at HUPO 2026 in Singapore! 

Students:

Winner

 

Daniel Davoudpour, Masters Student

University Of Toronto, Canada

Affinity-purification mass spectrometry (AP-MS) and kinase inhibitor screens identify phosphorylation-mediated regulation of αT-catenin at the cardiomyocyte intercalated disc.

Runner-up

 

Marion Pang, PhD student

California Institute of Technology, United States

Marker-guided Spatial Proteomics by LMD-ScP Captures Single-Cell Identity and Heterogeneity of the Nervous System

Runner-up

 

Kathrin Korff, PhD student

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany

Sample handling shapes the signal: workflow bias in plasma proteomics.

Runner-up

Martin Gesell, PhD student

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Specialized T Cell Receptor Nanoscale Communities Define Subset Diversity of Primary Human T Cell Subsets.

Post-Docs:

Winner

 

Marc Oeller, Postdoctoral Fellow

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany

Resolving the Heterogeneity of Protein Inclusions in Parkinson’s Disease by Deep Visual Proteomics

Runner-up

 

Ana Montero, Postdoctoral Fellow

Instituto De Salud Carlos Iii, Spain

In depth-analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain tissue reveals novel Aβ interactors

Runner-up

 

Loren Méar,Postdoctoral Fellow

Uppsala University, Sweden

Spatial proteomics uncovers structural and molecular complexity of the human ovary in 2D and 3D.

Runner-up

 

Ulises H. Guzman, Postdoctoral Fellow

NNF Centre For Protein Research, ICMM, UCPH, Denmark

A Scalable FFPE tissue Workflow for High-Throughput and Sensitive Spatial Proteomics

HUPO ECR Poster Competition prizes sponsored by Pelago Bioscience.