Congratulations to Dr Nicola Annels who won the Azenta Life Sciences GENEWIZ  Sequencing and Quantification Award! Dr Annels and her team’s excellence and innovative work in advancing genomics research was recognised. This award enables Dr Annels to choose her preferred measurement toolkit with funding towards NGS or Sanger sequencing applications.

Nicola will use her award towards our Phd student James Thetford’s project on understanding ethnic disparities in prostate cancer clinical outcomes – why black men are 2x likely to get prostate cancer compared to other men. You can read more about James’ research here: https://prostate-project.org.uk/microbiomes-do-they-explain-why-black-mens-outcomes-are-so-poor

👉 $5,000 Award: Nicola Annels at University of Surrey

👉 $2,000 Award: Ana Saldarriaga at Fordham University

👉 $1,000 Award: Brenna Levine, Ph.D. at Kean University, Aayushi Uberoi at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, & Bailey West at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Get a glimpse into their cutting-edge research and stay tuned as we reveal the remaining recipients! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ezCDNazn