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Medical Sciences professors honoured by Royal Society

Awards and Appointments

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer of the Department of Oncology and Professor Douglas Higgs, head of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University, have been named winners of significant prizes by the Royal Society in the UK national academy of science's annual set of awards for outstanding research and contributions to science.

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