Congratulations to the 12 ARTxSCIENCE finalists

Congratulations to the 12 finalists and a huge thank you to all participants for making the ARTxSCIENCE Competition a success.

We have received more than 1,5 million impressions on social media (SoMe) and still counting and a great number of votes again this year with an amazing number of 20.000 votes and a very close race to the end which made it all very exciting.

Out of the 59 submissions the following 12 listed in random order made it to the finals:

• Oscar Bay Axelsen, PhD Student, Aragona lab, reNEW Copenhagen, artxscience 2026 #56 – reNEW
• Viviana Meraviglia, Senior Researcher, Bellin lab, reNEW Leiden, artxscience 2026 #25 – reNEW
• Giulia Campostrini, Senior Researcher, Mummery/Bellin lab, reNEW Leiden, artxscience 2026 #13 – reNEW
• Hayley Pointer, Research Assistant, Porrello Lab, reNEW Melbourne, artxscience 2026 #33 – reNEW
• Allara Zylberberg, Postdoctoral Researcher, Little lab, reNEW Melbourne, artxscience 2026 #26 – reNEW
• Rianna De Poi, Research Assistant, Little Lab, reNEW Melbourne, artxscience 2026 #42 – reNEW
• Sophia Mah, Research Assistant, The Little Lab, reNEW Melbourne, artxscience 2026 #45 – reNEW
• Antonia T.L. Zech, Postdoctoral Researcher, Porrello and Elliott labs, reNEW Melbourne, artxscience 2026 #27 – reNEW
• Melissa Ritchie, Research Assistant, Little lab, reNEW Melbourne, artxscience 2026 #38 – reNEW
• Paola Pisterzi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Geijsen Lab, reNEW Leiden, artxscience 2026 #17 – reNEW
• Lingbing Zhang, PhD student, Jensen lab, reNEW Copenhagen, artxscience 2026 #52 – reNEW
• Louise Saviø Piilgaard, Postdoctoral Researcher, Kirkeby lab, reNEW Copenhagen, artxscience 2026 #53 – reNEW 

Next step in the competition will be the evaluation by the international jury which will happen September 28. The winner will be announced October 14 on Stem Cell Awareness.

Visit the ARTxSCIENCE website to see all finalists here: https://renew.science/artxscience/#finalists