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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.

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…