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Biochemistry researcher receives award for ageing research from the Glenn Foundation

Awards and Appointments

Professor Lynne Cox was presented with an award from the US-based Glenn Foundation for Medical Research at an event at the House of Lords on October 27.

The Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging will help to support exciting research carried out by DPhil student Hayley Lees who is jointly supervised by Lynne Cox and Alison Woollard in the Department of Biochemistry.

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