Notable student accolades

  • Dylan Bergen awarded Versus Arthritis (formerly Arthritis Research UK) Fellowship in 2019.
  • Lizzie Lawrence (together with Jessye Aggleton) won the European Space Agency 'Spin your thesis' competition for 2018.
  • Sonam Gurung was awarded a Wellcome Trust/Bristol University “discipline hopping” EBI Fellowship to work with Jack Mellor in 2018.
  • Kerrie McNally was awarded the 2018 Faculty of Life Sciences PhD thesis prize.
  • Natalia Jimenez-Moreno was selected to attend the 2018 Lindau Nobel meeting
  • Kerrie McNally was awarded the Bristol Biochemistry Dick Denton prize for best PhD 2017.
  • Kiren Baines invited to give a short talk at the Autophagy Keystone meeting in 2017.
  • Dylan Bergen was awarded a Wellcome Trust/Bristol University “discipline hopping” EBI Fellowship to learn population health techniques in 2017.
  • Will Razzell was awarded the Damon Runyan Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship in 2015 to work in Jenn Zallen’s lab at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York.
  • Laura Dearden was awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome post-doctoral fellowship in 2015.
  • Matthew Gallon was invited to be a Discussion Leader for 2014 Lysosomes and Endocytosis Gordon Research Seminar.
  • Tom MacVicar was awarded an EMBO fellowship and a Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for research in the Langer lab, Cologne in 2014.
  • Nicole Antonio gave an invited short talk at the Keystone Inflammation, Infection and Cancer Keystone Meeting in 2014 and was awarded the Bristol Biochemistry Dick Denton prize for best PhD 2014.
  • Will Razzell was awarded the 2013 Beddington Medal for best UK developmental biology PhD and the 2013 Faculty of Biomedical Sciences Research Prize for best PhD thesis.
  • Ian McGough was the BSCB Young Cell Biologist of the Year 2011 and was awarded the Bristol Biochemistry Dick Denton prize for best PhD 2012.
Natalia Jimenez-Moreno with Yoshinori Ohsumi, Nobel Prize winner for studies in autophagy
2018 Lindau Nobel meeting: Natalia Jimenez-Moreno with Yoshinori Ohsumi, Nobel Prize winner for studies in autophagy
Tom MacVicar (left) and Will Razzell reminiscing about the UK before heading off to fellowships abroad
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