Juliette Fedry, Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been announced as one of two finalists for the 2025 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. In partnership with the scientific journal Nature, Eppendorf gives the award annually to recognise outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe by those under 35. 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Eppendorf Young Investigator Award. The other finalist recognised by Eppendorf is Fena Ochs from the University of Copenhagen and the 2025 Award Winner is Varun Venkataramani from University Hospital Heidelberg.
Juliette’s research focus is better understanding cellular proteostasis. She seeks to answer how cells know to produce the right amount of proteins, folded in a precise way and trafficked to exactly the correct locations. As well as examining these proteostatic processes in normal cells and tissues, her group also investigates how they are impacted in conditions such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Key to elucidating the mechanisms of proteostasis is study of the ribosome, a cellular machine which synthesises new proteins, chaperones to assist in protein folding and degradation factors to target damaged proteins. Juliette’s group employs a multi-disciplinary approach to unravel the workings of the ribosome, including utilising an advanced combination of light microscopy, electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM), electron cryotomography (cryo-ET) and computational analysis.
Juliette has been a Group Leader at the LMB since 2023. She began her research career with an undergraduate degree from Ecole Polytechnique in France, and later received a PhD in Structural Virology from Institut Pasteur, France. Following this, she undertook postdoctoral studies in the Structural Biochemistry group at Utrecht University, Netherlands where she was awarded the Dina Surdin Young Researcher Award of the French Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators
Juliette’s group page