The February 2009 LHS evening meeting was our first meeting dedicated soley to researchers in the early stages of their careers. Three talk titles were chosen for presentation at this meeting and the committee presented the most outstanding presentation with a £100 prize.
Reecha Sofat was the winner this year with her talk on "Mendelian randomisation for drug target validation: separating mechanism-based and off-target effects of torcetrapib". Our runners up were Adam Greenstein and Silke Becker.
The LHS is now accepting applications for the 2009/2010 Young Researchers Prize, which will take place at our February meeting in 2010. You must be either a current PhD student or 3 years post-doc (with no limit on age) to be eligible. To apply, please email a talk title and abstract (no more than one page) to the secretary and don't foget to confirm your eligibility in the email. The deadline for abstracts is November 20th, 2009.
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