Approximately 160 guests came to Kepler Science Day on May 11, attending some 19 presentations and 47 poster presentations to learn more about the cutting-edge medical research, new findings in medical engineering, advancements in patient care, and aging research. The program also included information regarding the impact of digital transformation as well as particularly outstanding dissertations. Awards were also presented and Eva Dovjak, BSc MSc., received an award for her poster presentation titled "Simultaneous Imaging and Flow-Cytometry-Based Detection of Multiple Fluorescent Senescence Markers in Therapy-Induced Senescent Cancer Cells".

Prof. Andreas Gruber, Dean of the JKU Faculty of Medicine, presented both Jan Maximilan Janssen ("Structural interaction of microglia and axon initial segments in rat primary motor cortex following spinal cord injury") and Dr. Manuela Geiß ("Potential of deep neural networks in the selection of human blastocysts to predict morphological grades according to Gardner and clinical outcome") with the top award, accompanied with € 1,000 in prize money.

Additional award winners:

The category of Medical Technology: Dr. Fahad Benthani ("Investigating the role of PTEN loss-induced senescence in prostate tumor innervation")
The category of Digital Transformation: Dr. Manuela Geiß ("Potential of deep neural networks in the selection of human blastocysts to predict morphological grades according to Gardner and clinical outcome")
Category 3: Research in Healthcare and Aging: DI Angelika Lackner ("The Involvement of Immunogenic Cell Death in Extracorporeal Photopheresis")
The category of Best Interdisciplinary Research Approach: DI Angelika Lackner ("The Involvement of Immunogenic Cell Death in Extracorporeal Photopheresis")