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Reece Bond and Dimona Videnlieva, currently in the second year of their MRS-funded PhD Studentships, took part in a Careers and Insights event at St George’s School, Edinburgh on 7 October 2026. It was a fantastic opportunity for Reece and Dimona to engage with motivated pupils and show them the…

Kay Polland was thrilled to be awarded the Runner-up best oral presentation prize at the 2026 Glasgow Imaging Network Symposium, where she presented her work on assessing structures in diseased tonsils using Fourier ptychographic microscopy. She found the meeting an excellent event, hosted by Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute, and…

Thư Trịnh Ngọc Anh was honoured to receive a poster prize at the 2025 Chemical Biology Symposium in London. We are delighted that her PhD research was recognised at the event. The meeting provided an excellent opportunity for Thư to present her work, discuss it with other researchers; exchange ideas;…

Rosie Willis attended the 2025 European Summer School for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in Spetses, Greece. The week long summer school was organised by Sally Lowell (University of Edinburgh), Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge), Kim Jensen (Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine), Austin Smith (University of…

Back by popular demand, Medical Research Scotland’s in-person Meet the Researcher Showcase took place on Thursday 12th June 2025, bringing together pupils from Scottish high schools who are interested in science or considering STEM subjects in higher education. Click here to read about the event.  

Daniel Webb attended the Royal Society of Chemistry – Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector (RSC-BMCS) Postgraduate Symposium XVII, held at the University of Oxford in January 2024, where he presented a short talk and poster of his PhD research titled: ‘Activin Receptor-like Kinase 2 Degradation as a Novel Therapeutic Strategy…

Désirée Zerbst was awarded the Leukaemia UK scholarship to attend the Annual John Goldman Conference on Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) in France in 2023. The conference was the perfect opportunity for her to learn about current CML research and gain more insight into the clinical aspect of CML treatment. She…

We are delighted that Professor Ben Shelley’s MRS-funded research into Covid-19 (‘Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Ventilated Patients with COVID-19 (COVID-RV)’, University of Glasgow), published in Anaesthesia, has been selected as one of the journal’s Top 10 Articles from 2022. Ben was awarded a Covid-19 Research Grant in 2020. Congratulations to…

Dr Simon Swingler, a Medical Research Scotland-funded Daphne Jackson Fellow, working at the MRC University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, was part of a team of researchers who have shed light on how avian (bird) flu strains infect humans by evading a key human defence mechanism, known as BTN3A3….

MRS was delighted to hear the Science Minister George Freeman MP acknowledge medical research charities as a unique strength of the UK’s eco-system” in January 2023 in a speech at UK Onwards’ event “Science Superpower: the UK’s Global Science Strategy beyond Horizon Europe”. MRS believes we play a vital role…

Congratulations to Jason Corbett, who was awarded the University of St Andrews’ School of Biology Christina Paulus prize prize. He received his prize for delivering the best cell or molecular biology talk at the 2022 School of Biology’s annual internal postgraduate conference. Jason had to present his talk in an…