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NIMR student essay shortlisted for Max Perutz award
29 July 2010
More than 100 PhD students entered the competition, which encourages junior MRC-funded researchers to communicate about their work for a non-scientific audience. Marianne Neary, a PhD student in Tim Mohun's lab in NIMR's Division of Developmental Biology, wrote an essay titled "Conquistadores and cot death" and it has been chosen as one of the twelve best submissions.
The winner, to be announced at an awards ceremony on 25 August, will be chosen by a judging panel of professional scientists and writers including the MRC’s chief executive, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, and the Guardian’s science and environment correspondent, Alok Jha.
Marianne is working towards her PhD at NIMR as part of the UCL MB PhD programme. She won the Society for Endocrinology undergraduate essay prize in 2008 and is a volunteer writer on the Bionews website.
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