Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla honoured with Leibniz Prize
ISAR Bioscience congratulates Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Member of the Board of the Foundation, on winning the Leibniz Prize 2025.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) today announced the award of the Leibniz Prize 2025 to Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla. Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla is a member of the Board of the Foundation for Stem Cell Research and Applied Regenerative Medicine, which owns ISAR Bioscience.
Since 2016, Torres-Padilla has been Director of the Stem Cell Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München and Professor of Stem Cell Biology at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. She conducts research into the mechanisms underlying cell plasticity, i.e. the ability of cells to adapt to their environment. Her focus is primarily on epigenetic processes, i.e. the cellular processes that influence the activity of genes due to environmental influences. A milestone in her research is the discovery of the epigenetic factors that control the first step of reprogramming – from the very early “totipotent” stem cells to the embryonally differentiated cells.
