Early career researchers took centre stage at this year’s STEM for Britain awards.
The annual awards were set up to recognise and showcase outstanding research by scientists at the start of their careers.
Since 2012 the IBMS has been a proud sponsor of the gold and silver awards for the biological and biomedical sciences categories.
The winners this year were:
Gold – Sarah Houston, Institute of Ophthamology, University College London, for her poster “Using the eye as a window to the brain in multiple sclerosis”.
Silver – Karoliina Tuomela, Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology, University of Manchester, for her poster “Radiotherapy can make cancer cells resistant to immune cell attack”.
Bronze – Ted Roberts, School of Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, University of Bristol, for his poster “Culturing neutrophils from stem cells to explore neutrophil cell biology and disease”.
IBMS President Allan Wilson addressed the audience. He said: “I think that opportunities for biomedical scientists are set to expand considerably. If our health services are to maintain the expected high standards of care, new and emerging roles will be crucial, and we need innovative scientists like yourselves.
“This year we were very impressed with the quality of research on display from the three winners of the biological and biomedical sciences category.”
