Two students from Vetmeduni Vienna were awarded presentation prizes at the joint symposium of the PhD programs “Inflammation and Immunity” and “Molecular, Cellular and Clinical Allergology”. This was the second edition of this joint symposium, this year with the title “Together one step further”. It happened on September 25^th and 26^th 2017 at the Medical University of Vienna.

Daniela Prinz from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology won the best lecture by the students for the oral presentation “NKG2D: friend or foe in NK cell mediated tumour surveillance”. Ana Puga from the Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics won the best poster award with the work “The role of STAT1 isoforms in Th cell differentiation and CD4+ T cell-mediated diseases”.