The London Research Institute hosts a number of conferences throughout the year and has extensive seminar schedules as part of its education programme.
2011 Pontecorvo Prize
Submitted by rainbo01 on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 16:02
The Pontecorvo prize is awarded for the best PhD thesis submitted by a Cancer Research UK-funded PhD student during each calendar year.
Congratulations go to Devanshi Jain, Telomere Biology, who won the 2010 Pontecorvo Prize for her thesis, HAATI: Heterochromatin Amplification Dependent and Telomerase Independent Survival. The panel were very impressed by the outstanding and original research she carried out during her PhD.
The Pontecorvo prize is awarded to the student who, in the opinion of the judges, has produced the best PhD thesis and made the most outstanding contribution to scientific knowledge in his/her field of research leading to publication(s) in major peer reviewed journals. This year's judging panel was made up of: of Tim Key (Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford), Daniel St Johnston (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge), Matthias Merkenschlager (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London), and Tony Kouzarides (Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge).
The funding exists through the generosity of Professor Peter Goodfellow, formerly Head of the Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory at the Lincoln's Inn Fields laboratories, and it is named after the geneticist Professor Guido Pontecorvo, who worked at the Lincoln's Inn Fields laboratories from 1968-75.
