THE MARIAN ALDRED AWARD

Funding future scientists with scholarships for metastatic breast cancer research

 
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Marian Aldred was one of the original committee members of Think Pink Lux, founded in 2009. Sadly, on December 31, 2011, Marian died after having lived for 8 years with ovarian cancer. In her memory, the ThinkPinkLux team committed to funding future scientists developing their research through scholarships called The Marian Aldred Award.

Marian Aldred, December 5, 1956 – December 31, 2011

 
 

The Marian Aldred award was instigated in 2012 following the untimely death due to ovarian cancer, of one of the committee’s founding members, Marian Aldred.

The Marian Aldred Award currently supports young researchers working with Dr Clément Thomas at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.

Previously funded projects:

Identification des Cibles Moléculaires des Composés de la famille des Glycocides Cardiaques.

Amount donated: 63,000 € over 3 years (2012-2014)

Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du Cancer (LBMCC), PhD student Florian Mullerunder Dr. Marc Diederich. 
http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/DDOC_T_2014_0231_MULLER.pdf

 
 

Meet Rosamaria Militello

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A 24-year-old Italian student, born in Sicily. Rosamaria has always been interested in Nature and Science and studied Life Sciences at the University of Siena. She was fascinated by the perfect organization of cells and how a single mutation in a gene can disrupt cell’s harmony and lead to dramatic consequences for the organism.

She completed a Master degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology and has now moved to Luxembourg and joined Clément Thomas’s team at LIH (Luxembourg Institute of Health) to put her knowledge into practice and be trained in breast cancer research.

Rosamaria, a researcher of the future is being supported by the Marian Aldred award.

Diogo Pereira Fernandes - learn more about the Cytoskeleton and Cancer Progression reseearch

In 2023, Diogo Pereira Fernandes, a Master's student, and Dr. Clément Thomas, the group leader, were awarded the Marian Aldred Award for their research on the signaling pathways responsible for tumor immune resistance. The symbolic check of €25,000 was presented to the two laureates at a ceremony held at the LIH in Strassen on January 13, 2023.Diogo has gone on with his research towards a PhD.