Kathy Niakan finalist in Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

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Crick group leader Kathy Niakan has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK for ‘pioneering research in human embryonic development, and blazing a trail to obtain regulatory approval to perform research involving genome-editing in human embryos.’ […]

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Four Faculty Members Win Cash Prizes at OCR’s Pitchfest

Four Faculty Members Win Cash Prizes at OCR’s Pitchfest 12-19-18 (1)

Four faculty members took home cash prize awards on Dec. 12, after a full day of pitching their lifesciences projects at Pitchfest, hosted by the Office of Cooperative Research. A panel of judges and industry partners reviewed and assessed 31 presentations throughout the day and awarded prizes to Drs. Alanna Schepartz, Paul Turner and John Deacon in the amount of $1,000 and Dr. Anna Pyle $1,500 for hers. […]

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Serhii Plokhy’s Chernobyl wins prestigious 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction at awards event sponsored by the Blavatnik Family Foundation

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Serhii Plokhy has been named the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for “Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy.” […]

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