Alexander von Humboldt-Professur
Award year: 2023
Category: Award / Honour
Type: Alexander von Humboldt-Professur
Awarding organization: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
In conjunction with his interdisciplinary team, physicist Prof. Dr. Benoit Ladoux wants to discover how cells and tissue generate and respond to mechanical forces and how, conversely, this stress determines changes in the form, migration and differentiation of cells during development. The findings about cell self-organization play an important role, for example, in developmental biology and cancer research. As a Humboldt Professor at FAU, Prof. Ladoux translates the findings from fundamental mechanobiological research into specific areas of healthcare such as the barrier function of the intestinal mucosal membrane and in tumor development.