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Graduate student wins prestigious writing prize

Awards and Appointments

Biochemistry graduate student, Kate Wright, has won the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2013.

Her article, ‘The revenge of the Americas’, gives an engaging and lively account of the debate surrounding the origins of syphilis in Europe. It won the ‘Professional scientists’ category of the competition which was judged by a panel of broadcasters, journalists and scientists. 

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