A further selection of winners of this year’s President’s Prize.
Staffordshire success
George Machin, this year’s President’s Prize winner at Staffordshire University, graduated with first-class honours in Applied Biomedical Science.
He undertook his clinical placement at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where he is now working as a registered biomedical scientist, and has now embarked on a Masters in Biomedical Blood Science.
George is pictured above receiving his award from Dr Gary Reynolds.
Inspiring award for Amy
Amy Charles is this year’s recipient of an IBMS President’s Prize at the University of Westminster, and received her award from Sue Alexander, watched by Dr Ian Locke.
Amy found the course to be engaging, due to the breadth of information taught, the practical elements and final-year project, and the enthusiasm of the lecturers.
She says she met some amazing and inspiring people and aims to continue with postgraduate education.
Awarded at Aston
Georgina O’Connor was awarded the IBMS President’s Prize at Aston University, having gained first-class honours on the Applied Biomedical Science programme.
Georgina completed the IBMS Registration Portfolio at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in the haematology and transfusion department. She is currently working as a Higher Healthcare Technical Officer at NHS Blood and Transplant Birmingham in the red cell immunohaematology laboratory, with the hopes of gaining a biomedical scientist position in the near future.
Georgina is pictured with Dr Ann Vernallis, Programme Director for the BSc Biology, Biomedical Science and MBiol courses at Aston.
Success in Essex
Joshua Barnes received an IBMS President’s Prize at a University of Essex graduation reception.
During his course, Joshua undertook a placement year in histopathology at Queen’s Hospital in Romford, and completed a dissertation on the combined effects of the topoisomerase 2 inhibitor, etoposide, and the poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, 3-aminobenzamide, on cancerous myeloid cells (KMS5 cells) to find a new treatment for multiple myeloma.
Joshua, pictured receiving his prize from Robert Keeble, aims to continue his studies in cellular pathology.
Prize awarded at NTU
At Nottingham Trent University (NTU) the IBMS President’s Prize was awarded to Rebecca North, pictured with Course Leader and IBMS representative Beverley Peel.
Rebecca, who graduated with first-class honours (BSc Biomedical Science), completed her Registration Training Portfolio while on placement at Source BioScience, where she has now secured a permanent position.
Passion for research
Natalia Ewa Bezuch was awarded the IBMS President’s Prize at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), presented here by Dave Ecceleston.
Natalia graduated with a first-class BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science degree.
In the final year of her degree, Natalia completed her dissertation entitled “Association of IL-6 G-634C polymorphism with cognitive performance and bone mineral density in healthy young and older adults”.
This has given Natalia a passion for research and a desire to pursue a research career. She has now begun studying for an MRes at MMU.