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Three research members of Professor Dino Giussani's group have recently been awarded prizes for their work.

Katie Skeffington, a PhD student with Giussani, won best abstract by an in-training person at the 42nd International Meeting of The Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society held in Vancouver, Canada, August 9 - 13, 2015. Her work is on fetal origins of heart disease and uses the chick embryo as an animal model.

Zhongchao Wang, a joint PhD student with Giussani and the Department of Aerospace Physiology Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China, won best oral presentation by an in-training person at the 42nd International Meeting of The Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society held in Vancouver, Canada, August 9 - 13, 2015. His work is on indentifying therapy for preeclampsia using a rodent model. We warmly congratulate you, Zhongchao!

Dr Kim Botting, a Post Doc in Giussani's lab, received the prize for best talk at the inaugural Annual Meeting of the Cardiovascular Early Careers Event hosted by the BHF Cambridge Centre for Cardiovascular Research Excellence. The title of her work was ‘Isolating the long-term cardiovascular effects on adult offspring of human clinically relevant doses of antenatal glucocorticoids’.

Date awarded

24 September 2015

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