MRS seeks new Trustees to join its board February 28, 2022 Ongoing Medical Research Scotland (MRS) is looking for a number of new Trustees to join its Board. Our Trustees come from a variety of backgrounds and have different expertise. The overall skills requirements of our Trustee Board include the following: An understanding of the UK charity sector, good governance, OSCR requirements,… Continue reading...
Alzheimer’s Research UK 2022 Conference Poster Prize March 16, 2022 Congratulations to Rebecca Budgett, who was awarded the poster prize at the Alzheimer’s Research UK 2022 conference Early Careers Day for her poster entitled “Targeting mGluR5 in a mouse model of terminal neurodegenerative disease”. Continue reading...
1st Year Student Poster Prize November 17, 2021 Tom Carvell was awarded Heriot-Watt University’s Institute of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering first year student’s poster prize for the poster he presented at the annual School of Engineering and Physical Sciences Post-graduate Research Day. Very well done Tom! Continue reading...
Anatomical Society’s Best Image Prize November 16, 2021 The Anatomical Society awarded the Best Image Prize to PhD student Patricia Medesan for her image entitled ‘Science in Bloom’. The Best Image Prize is awarded twice a year and the images submitted by members are judged by the Website, Media and Communications Committee. The winning entry is a pseudo-colorized… Continue reading...
AMRC Open Research is Available to MRS Awardees October 7, 2021 MRS encourages all its awardees to publish their work in open access journals or platforms. You can now make use of the AMRC Open Research publishing platform as a means to do so. AMRC Open Research is a platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of work funded… Continue reading...
2nd Year PGR Symposium Poster Prize September 22, 2021 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… Continue reading...
Drug Discovery Poster Prize Winner September 29, 2020 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… Continue reading...
Peptide Synthesis and Purification Poster Prize July 16, 2020 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! Continue reading...
MRS statement on Covid-19 – including update on Vacation Scholarships March 18, 2020 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… Continue reading...
Edinburgh Breast Cancer Special Symposium 2020 Poster Prize March 5, 2020 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”. Continue reading...