MRC Students - Past and Current
Evie Maifoshie
Research at Imperial College London is enabled by world-class expertise and takes place in departments rated 5 and 5* in the last RAE. Research Projects are available across Imperial research themes:
- Genomic Medicine
- Infection Immunity and Immunology
- Stratified Medicine
- Population Health
- Bioengineering
Students who have received the MRC PhD Studentship are now participating in a wide variety of research topics throughout the College. These are just some of the activities and achievements of previous and current students.
Harriet Gliddon 2011/12 intake
Department of Medicine
Congratulations to Harriet Gliddon for receiving the Award for Outstanding Achievement by the President & Rector at the Postgraduate Graduation Ceremony which took place on 1 May 2013 at the Royal Albert Hall.
Harriet was chair of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), at Imperial College London and campaigned to raise awareness of the complex issues that govern access to medicines throughout the world. She then acted as joint National Coordinator for UAEM in the UK which involved organising various conferences and raising the profile of this campaign within the UK and the rest of Europe.
UAEM is a student-led campaign that began at Yale University in 2001, when students and researchers were joined by Médecins Sans Frontières to campaign for the HIV antiretroviral stavudine to be available for generic production in South Africa. This led to a 30-fold decrease in price, allowing HIV patients to access this life-saving treatment at affordable prices. Since then, UAEM has grown into an international organization, with a membership that includes students from 5 continents and a range of disciplines.
Heart researcher awarded for stunning image
Congratulations to Evie Maifoshie for winning a British Heart Foundation award for an image of her research on heart disease.
Max Perutz Science Writing Award 2012
Congratulations go to Holly Callaghan, Sarah Caddy and Victoria Jenkins, all MRC DTA supported PhD students, who have made the long-list for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award, aimed at recognising outstanding communication among MRC scientists. More than 100 MRC-funded PhD students and early-career researchers entered the competition, from which 29 entries have been selected to form the long-list. The competition asked MRCresearchers to answer the question ‘why does my research matter’ in no more than 800 words. More details here - http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC008763
Helen Jenkins 2006/07 intake
Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care
Helen published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine on 16 October 2008 on immunization against polio in Nigeria. According to the study, the recently introduced polio vaccine is four times more effective at protecting children than previous vaccines and has the potential to eradicate type 1 polio in Nigeria if it reaches enough children. For full details click here.
Anne Corbett 2004/05 intake
Division of Investigative Science
Anne won joint first place in the prestigious MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award for an essay she wrote about meningitis. Anne did her PhD in the Division of Investigative Science and her winning essay, "Behind enemy lines - discovering the stealth tactics of the meningococcus," describes her work on the human meningococcus pathogen. As part of her prize, Anne's essay was published in the Guardian newspaper. For full details click here.
Jimmy Kwok 2006/07 intake
Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics
Jimmy is working on breast cancer with Professor Eric Lam and has published the following paper:
Thiostrepton selectively targets breast cancer cells through inhibition of forkhead box M1 expression. Kwok JM, Myatt SS, Marson CM, Coombes RC, Constantinidou D, Lam EW. [ ]1: Mol Cancer Ther. 2008 Jul;7(7):2022-32
Isobel Blake 2006/07 intake
Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care
Isobel won 2nd prize for best poster presentation at ‘Research in Progress’ meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2007.
For more information about the research conducted by MRC Studentship recipients, please view the links down the right hand side.
Daniel Reed
