This prestigious award is considered to be Austria's Nobel prize and was granted to Tolic for the results achieved as part of a European Research Centre (ERC) project - A new class of microtubules in the spindle exerting forces on kinetochores - NewSpindleForce, headed by Tolic which has come up with completely new scientific insights.
The Ignaz Lieben Prize is an annual award to young scientists working in the fields of molecular biology, chemistry or physics, the press release said.
The Austrian academy also reports on its website that the Croatian biologist received this year’s Ignaz L. Lieben Prize for her outstanding research on cell division.