The LEO Foundation Award 2022 – Region EMEA
Grantee: Dr. Esther Hoste, Assistant Professor, Ghent University
Amount: USD 100,000
Grant category: LEO Foundation Awards
Year: 2022
Geography: Belgium
Dr. Esther Hoste is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology at Ghent University, Belgium.
She receives the award for her impressive ability to produce research at the forefront of our understanding of skin biology and as a recognition of her exemplary leadership to her team and to future generations of researchers. Esther Hoste is a talent that has already demonstrated an extensive track record of providing advances to our understanding of the skin and its diseases – with important findings on the mechanisms behind wound healing, skin regeneration, skin inflammation and skin tumor formation published by herself and her lab.