The Unit has successfully secured one of the new and highly prestigious Pre-doctoral Fellowships offered by the Medical Research Council (MRC). Ed MacManus will join Dario Alessi in October 2001. Ed has just graduated from Trinity College Dublin with the best first class Biochemistry degree of his year.
The Pre-doctoral Fellowship scheme is a new £1M initiative from the MRC, launched in October 2000, introducing salaried stipends to PhD students in MRC Units and Institutes. Only 13 Pre-doctoral Fellowships were available this year in the whole of the UK.
The Pre-doctoral Fellowship scheme is a new £1M initiative from the MRC, launched in October 2000, introducing salaried stipends to PhD students in MRC Units and Institutes. Only 13 Pre-doctoral Fellowships were available this year in the whole of the UK.