We celebrate the CDG Prize 2026 for Brigitte Gasser and a true paradigm shift! The Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft CDG honours the work of her laboratory, which has produced innovative research with practical applications in collaboration with industry partners.
Since 2017, her team has shown that yeast can selectively secrete proteins at near zero growth by precisely tuning the cell’s translation machinery, decoupling secretion from biomass formation. The result: less waste biomass, lower energy consumption and reduced emissions, making protein production more efficient and sustainable.
This advances the transition from linear, feedstock-heavy bioprocesses to circular systems; core goals of Brigitte Gasser’s research at the Cluster of Excellence Circular Bioengineering in Program 2 “Self-Sustainable Microbial Systems”.
Congratulations!
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