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Two Medical Sciences professors elected new Fellows of the Royal Society

Awards and Appointments General

Professors Sir Rory Collins, Director of the Nuffield Department of Population Health, and Gero Miesenböck, Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, were both elected as Fellows of the Royal Society earlier this week.

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