The Early Career Researcher Manuscript Competition was a fierce competition! 
Our three finalists, Dr. Xiang Zheng (Aarhus University), Dr. Arun Vadivel (SickKids Hospital), and Dr. Julia Bubis (Vienna BioCenter) each gave fantastic talks at the dedicated oral session sponsored by Taylor & Francis. Deciding a winner was no easy feat for our panel of expert judges. In the end, Dr. Xiang Zheng was awarded the first-place winning title of Proteomics Highlight of the Year and a cash prize of $1000. Congratulations to Dr. Zheng and the two runners-up, Dr. Vadivel and Dr. Bubis (cash prize of $500 each)!. Dr. René Zahedi (Taylor & Francis, University of Manitoba) and Roshan Tosh Aggarwal (HUPO ECR Committee member, University of Guelph) chaired the competition.
Winner
Dr. Xiang Zheng, Assistant Professor
Aarhus University, Denmark
Deciphering Functional Tumor-Immune Crosstalk Through Highlight Multiplexed Imaging and Deep Visual Proteomics
Runner-up
Dr. Arun Vadivel, Research Fellow
SickKids Hospital, Canada
The Proteomic Landscape of Diffuse Midline Glioma Highlights the Therapeutic Potential of Non-Histone Protein Methyltransferases
Runner-up
Dr. Julia Bubis, Post-doctoral Researcher
Vienna BioCenter, Vienna
Challenging the Astral Mass Analyzer to Quantify up to 5,300 Proteins Per Single Cell at Unseen Accuracy to Uncover Cellular Heterogeneity
We would like to extend a huge thank you to our competition sponsor, Taylor and Francis, for helping to make this competition possible! 
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