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Article of the Year Award

Photo of Ervin Ascic (right) and a representative from the Annual Meeting organizing committee (left).
Ervin Ascic is awarded with the Article of the Year Award 2025 for his publication in Science, 2024. Photo by: Claire McKay.

Each year, Lund Stem Cell Center presents its 'Article of the Year Award' to acknowledge and celebrate the novel discoveries made by our members.

Since 2017, Principal Investigators from across the Center have been invited every year to nominate publications written by researchers within their group. Following an external evaluation process the results are announced at the annual retreat, and the prize (50 000 SEK) is awarded to the research group of the winner.

The Lund Stem Cell Center Article of the Year Award (2025) ceremony will take place on Tuesday, September 16, 2025 during the Center's 2025 Annual Meeting.

Article of the Year Award 2025

Awardee

Ervin Ascic, PhD Student, Pereira Group: "In vivo dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy," Science, 2024.

Nominees

Petter Storm, Bioinformatician, Parmar Group: "Lineage tracing of stem cell–derived dopamine grafts in a Parkinson’s model reveals shared origin of all graft-derived cells," Science, 2024.

Alessandro Fiorenzano, Postdoc, Parmar Group | "TARGET-seq: Linking single-cell transcriptomics of human dopaminergic neurons with their target specificity," PNAS, 2024.

Past Recipients of the Article of the Year Award:

2024 | Olga Zimmermannova, Pereira Lab: "Restoring tumor immunogenicity with dendritic cell reprogramming", Science Immunology, 2023.

2023 | Ani Grigoryan, Bourgine lab: "Engineering human mini-bones for the standardized modeling of healthy hematopoiesis, leukemia, and solid tumor metastasis", Science Translation Medicine, 2022.

2022 | Oscar Legetth & Johan Rodhe, Soneji lab: "CellexalVR: A virtual reality platform to visualize and analyze single-cell omics data", iScience, 2021.

2021: Marie Jönsson (Jakobsson group): "Activation of endogenous retroviruses during brain development causes an inflammatory response", EMBO Journal, 2021).

2020: Marie Jönsson (Jakobsson group): "Activation of neuronal genes via LINE-1 elements upon global DNA demethylation in human neural progenitors", Nature Communications, 2020).

2019: Karolina Pircs (Jakobsson group) " Huntingtin aggregation impairs autophagy, leading to argonaute-2 accumulation and global microRNA dysregulation" (Cell Reports, 2019).

2018: Nicola Guzzi (Bellodi group) "Pseudouridylation of tRNA - Derived Fragments Steers Translational Control in Stem Cells" (Cell 2018).

2017: Per Ludvik Brattås (Jakobsson group) "TRIM28 Controls a Gene Regulatory Network Based on Endogenous Retroviruses in Human Neural Progenitor Cells" (Cell 2017).

Questions? Contact:

Claire McKay
PhD, Research Coordinator
Lund Stem Cell Center
BMC, Lund University

claire [dot] mckay [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Claire[dot]McKay[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)

Last updated: 3 Oct 2025 | Claire [dot] McKay [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se