Franziska Gießler is to be honored as an outstanding master’s graduate of Heidelberg University. Her scientific potential with respect to the doctoral phase she has just begun, and to a subsequent career in academic research, has earned her the Marie-Luise Jung Prize. The award, jointly initiated by the university with the Constituted Student Body and the Doctoral Convention, is granted by the Faculty of Biosciences. Prize-winner Franziska Gießler studied biochemistry in Heidelberg and is now working on her doctoral thesis in Amsterdam. The academic ceremony to award the prize is to take place in the Great Hall of the Old University on 21 April 2026.