Elly Tanaka, Senior Scientist at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter, won the FEBS-EMBO Women in Science Award 2020. Elly Tanaka receives the award for her pioneering work developing a molecular understanding of limb and spinal cord regeneration, developed new methods to study the phenomenon, which had previously been considered too complex to understand at a cellular level. Through her work inside and outside the lab, Tanaka has galvanized regeneration research worldwide.
https://www.imp.ac.at/news/article/elly-tanaka-receives-the-febs-embo-women-in-science-award-2020/