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The Anatomical Society awarded the Best Image Prize to PhD student Patricia Medesan for her image entitled “?Science in Bloom’. The Best Image Prize is awarded twice a year and the images submitted by members are judged by the Website, Media and Communications Committee. The winning entry is a pseudo-colorized…

Daniel Webb was awarded the joint first place prize in the poster competition at the Early Career Researchers in Targeted Protein Degradation (EC-TPD) Network Meeting at the University of Dundee School of Life Sciences in November 2022. Congratulations Daniel!   His poster on his PhD research was titled: ‘ALK2 Degradation:…

Congratulations to Rebecca Budgett, who was awarded the poster prize at the Alzheimer’s Research UK 2022 conference Early Careers Day for her poster entitled “Targeting mGluR5 in a mouse model of terminal neurodegenerative disease” .

MRS encourages all its awardees to publish their work in open access journals or platforms. You can now make use of the AMRC Open Research publishing platform as a means to do so. AMRC Open Research is a platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of work funded…

Congratulations to Rebecca Budgett who was judged as giving the best second year poster presentation at the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology’s annual PGR Symposium. In her virtual and interactive poster presentation entitled “Targeting the type 5 metabotropic glutamate receptor in a mouse model of…

The annual meeting of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry went virtual this year and the meeting, scheduled to be held in Basel, moved online. A virtual poster presentation formed part of the event, with over 200 posters being presented in the areas of chemical biology/technology and drug discovery. Dan…

Congratulations to Marie Bluntzer who presented her poster on stapled peptide design at the Peptide Synthesis and Purification meeting sponsored by Teledyne and CEM at Heriot Watt University on Friday 24th January 2020 and won first prize!    

We regret to say that we are cancelling the award of Vacation Scholarships in 2020. The current necessity for self-isolation and suspension of research in Universities will eventually end, but we do not anticipate that there will be sufficient time this year for labs to resume operations and for students…

Congratulations to Ieva Keraite for her poster award at the Edinburgh Breast Cancer Special Symposium 2020 for her poster “IK3CA mutation enrichment and detection in clinical samples”.

Congratulations to Hugh Nicholson who was awarded the Britiah Assocaition for Cancer Research (BACR) Gordon Hamilton-Fairley Young Investigator Poster Award at the 2019 National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Confernce in Glasgow for his poster entitled ‘FGF1 and HSP27 Interact to Modulate the DNA Damage Response in Chemoresistant Ovarian Cancer Cells’.

Salary: Unpaid Location: Edinburgh Medical Research Scotland (MRS) is always interested in the possibility of new Trustees joining its Board. The Trustee Board is comprised of people from a range of professional backgrounds. The current membership can be found on our website. Our Trustees are responsible and accountable for the…

Jennifer Clark gave a flash presentation and presented a poster on her research into the Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Autotaxin Inhibitors at the 20th SCI/RSC Medicinal Chemistry Symposium (Cambridge) over the course of three days in September 2019 and after a panel discussion, she was awarded the MedChemComm sponsored Best Student Poster…