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Dunn School postdoc wins Meningitis Research Foundation prize

Awards and Appointments

Hayley Lavender from the Tang group has won first prize in the poster competition at the Meningitis Research Foundation’s tenth international conference at The Royal Society in London on 5 November.

Hayley’s poster “Competition between host molecules influences susceptibility to meningococcal disease” was selected by the judging panel because of its high scientific merit and relevance to this year’s conference theme: “Meningitis and Septicaemia in Children and Adults 2015”.

Read more (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology website)

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