The Rank Prize Funds
PRIZEGIVING – Event planned for 8
th
 February, 2010

The Royal College of Physicians, London, NW1
Nutrition and Optoelectronic Committee Prizes

 

RANK PRIZE FOR NUTRITION

£80,000 - In recognition of their research on human lactation, including methods for the non-invasive measurement of the rate of milk secretion  

£50,000

£30,000

Professor P.E. Hartmann,

Professor R.A. Owens,

The Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences,

Graduate Research School,

The University of Western Australia

The University of Western Australia

 

 

£80,000 - In recognition of their work on the mechanism and treatment of coeliac disease

£40,000

£40,000

Professor F. Koning,

Professor L.M. Sollid,

Department of Immunohematology and Blood

Institute of Immunology,

 Transfusion, E3-Q,

University of Oslo,

Leiden University Medical Center,

Norway

The Netherlands

 

 

RANK PRIZE FOR OPTOELECTRONICS

£75,000 - For the application of excimer laser surgery to refractive correction of the cornea

£15,000

£15,000

Dr. S.E. Blum,

Dr. F.A. L’Esperance, Jnr.,

White Plains,

New York

New York,

U.S.A.

U.S.A.

 

 

£15,000

£15,000

Dr. R. Srinivasan,

Dr. S.L. Trokel,

UV Tech Associates,

Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center,

Ossining,

New York,

New York,

U.S.A.

U.S.A.

 

 

£15,000

 

Dr. J.J. Wynne,

 

I.B.M. T.J. Watson Research Center,

 

Yorktown Heights,

 

New York,

 

U.S.A.