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Over 100 guests came together in July to celebrate the achievements of our 2024 Rank Prize winners.
Students on our Undergrad Vacation grant will be exploring a range of topics from free school meals and diet quality to visual discomfort and neurodiversity.
Optoelectronics
Professor Hannah Smithson has won funding to host the first Lord Selborne PhD Scholarship in Optoelectronics with a project on human colour vision.
On International Women’s Day 2024, we talk to Optoelectronics committee member and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Alison Noble about gender equality in engineering.
Nutrition
We asked Dr. Aaron Hengist to reflect on his time as a Rank Prize doctoral student – during a pandemic. What made being a Rank Prize PhD student so different?
Professor Ann Prentice, a long-standing member of our Nutrition Committee, received the honour for her services to British and Global Public Health Nutrition.
Time-restricted eating, underexploited crops and climate change… Find out more about our 2023 winners and their projects here.
The prestigious Prizes have been awarded for research into type 2 diabetes and retinal imaging.
Genetics student Lucy Hotchkiss evaluated smart tools for agriculture as part of her Rank Prize Undergrad vacation placement at the University of Sussex.
Researchers came together in June to discuss the Eatwell Guide. Why isn’t there greater adherence to these healthy eating recommendations?
We asked Rank Prize PhD student Maisha Chaudery to tell us about her research into muscle ageing at the University of Southampton.
We are saddened to learn of the death of Professor Simon Bright, a former member of the Rank Prize Nutrition Committee.
Dr. Catriona Anderson is investigating how bacteria help insects survive as part of her New Lecturer grant, awarded by the Nutrition Committee in 2022.
Scientists came together to tackle the double burden of malnutrition at a Forum held at the Wellcome Collection.
A symposium was held in honour of Horace Barlow (1921-2020), a former committee member, and the continued influence of his work on modern neuroscience.
To mark International Women’s Day, we talk to Dr. Laura Dearden about inspiring the next generation of female scientists.
Yijia Cai won the prize for the report she submitted following her Rank Prize summer placement at UCL Electronic and Electric Engineering.
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How do we make decisions? Professor Zoe Kourtzi provides answers from neuroscience in her 2022 Rank Lecture on brain plasticity.
Dr. Laura Dearden has been awarded one of our 2022 New Lecturer grants for her research into the effects of obesity during pregnancy.
Early-stage rice researchers from across the UK met in Durham thanks to a Nutrition Committee forum grant.
Joseph will travel to the Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics in Vienna to develop his skills in food chemical analysis.
Professor Amelia Lake (Teesside University) delivered the Rank Lecture at the Nutrition Society Summer Conference in Sheffield earlier this month.
The winners of the 2022 Rank Prizes were formally awarded at a special 50th anniversary prize ceremony in London on 4th July.
The prizewinning papers addressed the resilience of the skin barrier and the impact of hydrogen sulfide on lifespan.
Dr. Pamela Dyson delivered the Harry Keen Rank Nutrition Lecture at the Diabetes UK Professional Conference 2022.
In honour of International Women’s Day we spoke to Professor Helen Gleeson about her work to improve gender balance in physics.
Professor Ann Prentice reflects on winning the inaugural Widdowson Award.
Congratulations to Karen Lillycrop, Professor of Epigenetics at University of Southampton
Rank Prize was please to co-sponsor the 4th Annual UK Rice Research Consortium (UKRRC) meeting, “Rice and Climate Change”.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Rank Prize New Lecturer grant in nutrition: Dr Alexandra Burgess, Dr Amanda Cavanagh and Dr Jeongmin Choi.
