In the category "Science" professor Marcel Leist, leader of the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair for in vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine at the University of Constance is one of the prize winners. In addition to Giorgia Pallocca, Antje Appelt-Menzel from the university Hospital in Würzburg was honored in the category "young scientists".

The LUSH prize is a joint project by Lush, manufacturer of handmade cosmetics, and the Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA), a not-for-profit co-operative based in the UK and founded in Manchester over 20 years ago with the mission to make global businesses more sustainable through consumer pressure. The prize promotes methods that can be employed without the use of animal testing, so as to end the use of animals
for cosmetics and household products as soon as possible.

The interview can be read here (in German):
http://www.tierrechte.de/themen/tierversuchsfreie-forschung/interview-gemeinsam-fuer-eine-bessere-wissenschaft