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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…

Ieva Keraite presented a poster at the Genomic Medicine 2019 conference in Edinburgh based on the enrichment and detection of PIK3CA mutations in breast cancer patient samples. After public vote, this poster was selected for the Best Poster Prize. Congratulations!

Sam Benson presented a poster based on his “SCOTfluors” paper on the development of new fluorescent tags for the imaging of metabolites at the RSC Bioorthogonal and Bioresponsive Conference 2019 in Edinburgh titled “SCOTfluors: Small, Conjugatable, Orthogonal & Tunable Fluorophores for in vivo imaging of Cell Metbaolism”. Following a vote…

Alasdair Morgan gave a brief ‘datablitz’ presentation of his research of 4D blood flow within the brain at the Fondation Leducq 5th Transatlantic Network ‘Understanding the role of the perivascular space in cerebral small vessel disease’ Meeting in Paris in July 2019. Along with other junior researchers, his presentation, entitled…

Congratulations to Sven Lange Sven who was awarded the FEBS Journal Poster Prize for the poster he presented at the EMBO conference on ‘Pseudoenzymes 2018’ in Heidelberg Germany.