Announcement of 2008 Prizes:

For further information on 2008 prizes click here.  A summary is as below.

NUTRITION

Professor P. Puska - £75,000 For his demonstration on a national scale, in Finland, of the dramatic success of the application of preventive nutritional principles to the conquest of coronary heart disease

Professor S.D. Tanksley - £75,000 For his work on the application of genome mapping and molecular markers to crop improvement

OPTOELECTRONICS

Professor P.B. Denyer - £30,000  Dr. D. Renshaw - £20,000  Dr. M. Lu - £15,000  Professor G. Wang - £15,000 For their work on the first CMOS sensor chips for cameras

Professor M.V. Srinivasan - £45,000  For his work on insect vision and its implications for robotics

Other current initiatives:

Post-Graduate Studentships in Human Nutrition

Applications are invited for a Rank Prize Nutrition Fund Post-Graduate Studentship in Human Nutrition, to start in October 2008. The maximum grant will be £10,000 pa for four years which can be used to fund partially a studentship with support from a Research Council, Charity or other source. Full details and application forms can be obtained from The Rank Prize Funds, enquiries@rankprize.org.  The closing date is 31st May 2008 and the award will be announced by 30th June 2008.