Graciosa Teixeira, PhD received the Best Paper Award of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine at its annual meeting in Kyoto, Japan for her paper 

Is the terminal complement complex a positive target for therapeutical intervention in intervertebral disc degeneration?

We cordially congratulate her and her co-authors:

Zhiyao Yong, Raquel Gonçalves, Michael Ruf, Amelie Kuhn, Andreas Nerlich, Uwe Mauer, Anita Ignatius, Rolf Brenner and Cornelia Neidlinger-Wilke.