Sarah Taylor wins MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award

"Curing the Uncurable - Teaching an old drug new tricks to fight ovarian cancer"

It has just been announced that Sarah Taylor, PhD student, who works on Fanconi Anaemia protein changes in ovarian cancer at the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre & Edinburgh Pathology, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, has won the MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award Competition (October 2020). Ten outstanding articles were shortlisted for the 2020 Max Perutz Science Writing Award, which is the MRC’s annual science writing competition, and Sarah Taylor was named the eventual winner. This award is named in honour of Dr Max Perutz, an outstanding scientist and communicator, who died in 2002, having been awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.