This award was given to Dr. Barbara Peter and Dr. Katharina Blatt from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Hematology and Oncology (formerly Ludwig Boltzmann Cluster Oncology) coordinated by  Prof. Valent, for two publications in renowned scientific journals.

The first one entitled: Target interaction profiling of midostaurin and its metabolites in neoplastic mast cells predicts distinct effects on activation and growth“appeared in Leukemia, the second one – „Identification of the Ki-1 antigen (CD30) as a novel therapeutic target in systemic mastocytosis ” in Blood.