Admin l Monday, October 26, 2020
LONDON, UK -The Medical Research Council has announced Sarah Taylor as the 23rd recipient of the Max Perutz Science Writing Award. Sarah Taylor was announced at a virtual ceremony in the United Kingdom.
Sarah Taylor is MRC PhD student Sarah Taylor from the MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh was announced as the winner of this year’s Max Perutz Science Writing Award .
She won the prize worth £1,500 with her article “Curing the incurable: teaching an old drug new tricks to fight ovarian cancer” published in The Observer.
The runner-up prize of £750 went to Julia Wcislo from University of Dundee, for her article, “The game of hide-and-seek”. Three others received the commended prize of £400. They are Miranda Buckle from MRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford, for her article, “Baby, what’s on your mind?;nd Maria Stavrou from University of Edinburgh, for her article, “Undoing the Straitjacket” amFernanda Teixeira Subtil from Francis Crick Institute, for her article, “From the palace to the favela”.
The 10 candidates were shortlisted for their articles from the 140 entries this year – the highest in the history of the Max Perutz Science Writing Award.
Their articles, according to the organisers represent the fantastic breadth of research MRC funds – topics include antimicrobial resistance and disease prevention, to new ways of understanding mental health conditions through machine learning.
