Sarah Laurent und Franziska Thaler, scientists working on the B08 project of the CRC TR128, have been awarded the Helmut Bauer Prize 2015 for young researchers for their work on the survival, regulation and activation of B cells in multiple sclerosis (see publications below). More information on this prize can be found in this press release (in German).
Laurent et al. γ-Secretase directly sheds the survival receptor BCMA from plasma cells Nat Commun 2015 6:7333
Hoffmann et al. The immunoregulator soluble TACI is released by ADAM10 and reflects B cell activation in autoimmunity J Immunol 2015 194(2):542-52