Dr. Christiane Hampe, PhD, is the recipient of the 2011 Neufeld Memorial Prize for her project entitled “Depletion of autoreactive-B lymphocytes through anti-idiotypic antibodies coupled to cytotoxins: a new approach for the prevention of Type 1 Diabetes.” This award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) is given to the most outstanding and original new project in the health sciences. The grant is awarded annually and given to the investigators whose project is considered as the most outstanding and original. Dr. Hampe is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition.