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November
2015
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Premonitions of psychosis wins science writing prize
- Emily received the first prize of £1,500 for her article: ‘Premonitions of Psychosis’
- Stephanie Shoop from the University also won a £400 commendation prize
Emily Eisner
PhD student Emily Eisner from The University of Manchester has won this year’s Medical Research Council Max Perutz Science Writing Award.
On 22 October Emily received the first prize of £1,500 for her article: ‘Premonitions of Psychosis’, which has now been published on the BBC News website.
Stephanie Shoop from the University also won a £400 commendation prize.
The awards were announced by MRC Chairman and competition head judge, Donald Brydon, alongside last year’s winner and science communicator, Christoffer van Tulleken, University College London. On presenting Emily’s prize Mr Brydon said: “The quality of entries for the Max Perutz award continues to delight, even if it means that choosing a winner never gets any easier! This year’s winner, Emily, easily surpassed the competition criteria and I hope will continue to devote time to writing as well as to her scientific research.”
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This year’s winner, Emily, easily surpassed the competition criteria and I hope will continue to devote time to writing as well as to her scientific research.
MRC Chairman and competition head judge, Donald Brydon
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The Max Perutz Award is in its 18th year and encourages MRC-funded PhD students to communicate their work to a wider audience. Entrants are asked to explain why their research matters in just 800 words. Since the competition started in 1998, hundreds of researchers have submitted entries and taken their first steps into science communication.
The award is named in honour of one of the UK’s most outstanding scientists and communicators, Dr Max Perutz. Max, who died in 2002, was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work using X-ray crystallography to study the structures of globular proteins, including haemoglobin. He was the founder and first chairman of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. Max was also a keen and talented communicator who inspired countless students to use everyday language to share their research with the people whose lives are improved by their work.
Read Emily’s article in full on the BBC website.
More information on her research can be found here.