Theresia Gutmann received the STS Science Award 2025. Left to right: Katharina Hieke-Kubatzky (STS President), Theresia Gutmann, Klaudia Giehl (University Gießen). © Tina Hagedorn
Postdoctoral researcher Theresia Gutmann, in the group of Anthony Hyman at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), was honored with the STS Science Award from the Signal Transduction Society (STS). The STS Science Award, established in 2005, acknowledges outstanding research by postdocs or junior research group leaders.
With this award, the Signal Transduction Society recognizes Theresia’s scientific excellence in the field of signal transduction, demonstrated by her contributions to understanding insulin action during her PhD and immune sensing of nucleic acids in her postdoctoral work.
She received the prize at the 28th STS Meeting in Weimar, where she presented her latest research and delivered the laudatory speech for this year’s STS Honorary Medal Awardee Hao Wu (Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital), who was a Valle Visiting Professor at MPI-CBG in 2025.
Theresia studied biology at the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin. After research stays at ETH Zurich and the University of Helsinki, she completed her PhD in the laboratory of Ünal Coskun at TU Dresden, where she discovered the mechanism underlying insulin receptor activation. She joined Anthony Hyman’s group at MPI-CBG in 2020 and shifted her research focus to nucleic acid-induced immune signalling and higher-order assemblies. In her postdoctoral work, she established a new research topic in the lab funded by the Walter Benjamin Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the NOMIS Foundation. She also discovered a mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus antagonizes innate immune recognition.
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