# ETH Medal for excellent research: cell-cell interactions

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Costanza Borrelli who studied cell-cell interactions during her doctorate in the Moor Lab, and Antonio Jose da Silva Santinha from the Platt Lab, inventor of a novel technology for single-cell CRISPR screening, received the 2024 ETH Medals for their doctoral theses. Big congratulations!

Borrelli, C. (2024) S[ystems biology approaches to decipher cell-cell interactions.](https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/662721) Doctoral thesis\
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Constanza now works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics of Prof Gabriel Victora, The Rockefeller University, New York.\

Da Silva Santinha, A. (2024) [AAV-Mediated Single-Nucleus CRISPR Screening of the 22Q11. 2 Deletion Syndrome in vivo.](https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/654756) Doctoral thesis\
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Since February 2025, Antonio is a Postdoc in the group of Hans Clevers at Roche’s Institute of Human Biology.

Find information on the [ETH Medal](https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/education/awards/eth-medal.html).\
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Learn about research in the [Systems Physiology Lab led by Andreas Moor](/lsp) and the [Biological Engineering Lab led by Randall Platt](/platt).\