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The Trustees are looking forward to working with Dr Michael Roberts, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Synpromics Ltd, a UK Biotech company based in Edinburgh, who has joined the Board of Trustees.

Caroline Busch won the prize for the best poster pitch at trhe International Stem Cell conference (Cambridge) in September 2018. Well done, we’re looking forward to hearing more about your research at the next Researcher Development Event!

The Trustees are delighted that Professor Heather Wallace, Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Aberdeen has joined the Board of Trustees.

Dr Dominique Meunier, MRS sponsored Daphne Jackson Fellow, gave a fascinating and accessible oral presentation at the Daphne Jackson Trust 2017 Research Conference, for which she deservedly won the Outstanding Oral Presentation prize. Congratulations to Dominique! Read about Dominique’s DJF project.

MRS students certainly are … eleven of our PhD students took part in Glasgow Science Centre’s Inspire and Challenge communication and public engagement training course. Enthused by the variety of science communication techniques, students learned how to engage an audience and how to structure hands-on activities for the public. Many…

Congratulations to Hugh Nicholson (in the first year of his year PhD) who was awarded first prize for his engaging presentation at the University of Dundee’s annual Postgraduate Medical School Symposium. In his talk – Specificity of fibroblast growth factor – induced signalling pathways in human tumours – identification of…

At the recent Trustee Meeting, Mr Alistair Gill, Principal Consultant at Mercer Limited, was welcomed to the Board of Trustees. Mr Gill will also sit on the Audit and Investment Committee.

Laura Beattie (second year PhD student) was one of three PhD students from Strathclyde’s Department of Biomedical Engineering to be invited to the Biomedical Engineering Bilateral Symposium at the University of Beihang in Beijing, China. She joined students from Columbia University, New York; Stonybrook University, New York; the University of…

Following the decision for the UK to leave the European Union, Universities and professional bodies promptly reassured students and staff of their continuing commitment to supporting research that crosses international borders. Medical Research Scotland will honour its existing commitments to EU students and continue to play its part in ensuring that…