DMM Outstanding Paper Prize 2019 winner: Alessandro Bailetti

Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) is delighted to announce (with apologies for the delay) that the winner of the DMM Prize 2019 is Alessandro Bailetti, for his paper entitled ‘Enhancer of Polycomb and the Tip60 complex repress hematological tumor initiation by negatively regulating JAK/STAT pathway activity’ ( Bailetti et al., 2019). The prize of $1000 is awarded to the first author of the paper that is judged by the journal's editors to be the most outstanding contribution to the journal that year. To be considered for the prize, the first author must be a student or a postdoc of no more than 5 years standing.