NewS

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. 

The 3MT Competition at HUPO was a truly inspiring showcase of creativity, clarity,  and scientific communication. Twelve PhD students embraced the challenge of presenting their complex research in just three minutes, using only one static slide and speaking as if to a lay audience. Their ability to distil intricate proteomics topics into accessible, engaging presentations was remarkable, demonstrating impressive precision, confidence, and dedication. The session captivated everyone in the room and highlighted the strength of the next generation of researchers. A standout moment came from Ruxandra Bighiu, who captivated the audience with the fascinating world of hearing proteins.”

Winner

 

Ruxandra Bighiu, University Of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

The Hidden Machinery of Hearing: A Deep Dive into Hearing Proteins 

Runner-up

 

Caroline Weiss, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, München, Germany

Mapping the Protein Landscape of the Human Body

Runner-up

 

Carla-Marie Jurkovic, Université De Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

Uncovering the hidden mechanics of DNA repair to fight cancer

           

All prizes are sponsored by Mass Dynamics and will be awarded post-congress: $500 for the Winner and $300 each for two Runners-up, plus an annual subscription to Mass Dynamics software for the Winner and both Runners-up. 

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! 

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the HUPO Awards 2025, celebrating outstanding contributions to the global proteomics community.

View the full list of HUPO Awards 2025 recipients.  

The winners will be formally recognized during the HUPO 2025 Congress — we encourage all attendees to join us in celebrating their achievements and cheering them on!

The HUPOST October 2025 issue is here!

The HUPOST September 2025 issue is here!

The moment you've been waiting for is almost here! We're thrilled to announce the incredible finalists for this year's 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. After a fierce selection process, these exceptional researchers are ready to take the stage and share their groundbreaking work.

In a high-stakes, high-energy event, each finalist will have just three minutes to present their research, using only a single static slide. Get ready to be amazed as they distill complex ideas into captivating, easy-to-understand presentations.

Don't miss the final on Monday, November 10th, from 4:30 to 5:35 PM. Come see who will be crowned this year's champion by our expert judging panel and a live audience!

We hope you’re as excited as we are for this year’s HUPO Early Career Researcher Manuscript Competition! You absolutely won’t want to miss our finalists presenting their work: Dr. Arun Vadivel (SickKids, Canada), Dr. Julia Bubis (Vienna BioCentra, Austria), and Dr. Xiang Zheng (Aarhus University, Denmark). Join us for their dedicated session at HUPO 2025 in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday November 11th at 9:10am, where the winner of this year’s competition will receive a cash prize of USD$1000 and both runners-up will each receive USD$500. This is a session you won’t want to miss!

Last, but certainly not least, we would like you to meet Dr. Xiang Zheng, an assistant professor at Aarhus University:

After earning a Bachelor of Clinical Medicine, he embarked on cancer research during his master's studies at Peking University, China. He later pursued a PhD in Human Biomedicine at the Max Planck Institute, Germany, specializing in multiplexed staining-based lung cancer biomarker identification and tumor microenvironment reprogramming.

In 2021, Dr. Zheng joined the group of Prof. Matthias Mann at the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral researcher, where he integrated multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging with Deep Visual Proteomics (mipDVP) to advance spatial proteomics and resolve tumor–immune interactions at single-cell resolution. Since 2024, he has been an Assistant Professor in Spatial Proteomics at Aarhus University under the support of Prof. Robert A. Fenton, focusing on applying mipDVP to drive precision medicine research in cancer, kidney diseases, and neurodegenerative disorders.

He has authored 18 peer-reviewed publications—including 10 as first author and 3 as corresponding author—in journals including Molecular Cell, Nature Communications, and Cancer Research. His work has been recognized with 12 awards, including the Emerging Technologies Funding Award, the Danish Bioimaging Image Contest Prize, and the William MacNee Award.

We would like to extend a huge thank you to our competition sponsor, Taylor and Francis, for helping to make this competition possible!

Nominations are now open for a HUPO Executive Committee position of Vice President. This is an opportunity to lead and shape the future of a significant scientific organization and work with an enthusiastic global team to promote and represent proteomics.

The Executive Committee (EC) of the Human Proteome Organization consists of fourteen officers as follows: President, Immediate Past President or President-Elect, Vice President, Secretary General, Treasurer, two Members-at-Large, ECR representative, two HPP, two C/HPP and two B/D HPP representatives

All positions are elected by the vote of HUPO Council.

Executive Committee nominees must be active (paid) HUPO members and scientists from the public or private sector with professional experience in the educational, research, or commercial activities related to the purposes of HUPO.

The following Executive Committee position will be elected by Council vote for commencing in January 2026:

·    Vice President (2026-2027)

Click here to view a list of the current HUPO Executive Committee.

To submit a self-nomination, complete the Nomination Form here and include a headshot photo.

Deadline to submit self-nominations - September 16 - 11:59 pm PDT.

For questions or further information, please contact the HUPO Office office@hupo.org

The HUPOST August 2025 issue is here!

Featuring: 2025 Congress Updates, News from ECR Committee, & Much More! https://conta.cc/4oN9xKA