Fairbairn Award
About the award
Lez Fairbairn was a scientist at the Cancer Research UK Paterson Institute in Manchester who died suddenly, aged 46, of a heart attack following a cricket match in 2005. His career was focussed on using gene therapy approaches to protect bone marrow stem cells from chemotherapy and he was a leading light in the formation and early development of BSGT. He was the Conference Chair of the 2nd BSGT meeting, which was held in Manchester in 2005, and had agreed to be put forward as the next President.
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The Fairbairn Award was set up in memory of Lez. The competition is now open to UK-based PhD students or researchers who have completed their PhD within the last 3 years and is awarded for the best presentation during the annual conference. Applicants can apply for the Fairbairn multiple times as long as within the criteria for age/experience.
Winners
2024
Andrei Claudiu Cozmescu, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London / NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London
2023
Catarina Gonçalves Guerra, University of Manchester; InstilBio UK
2022
Amy Geard, University College London
2019
Alex Baker, Cardiff University
2018
Helena Lund-Palau, Imperial College London
2017
Michael Paul-Smith, Imperial College London
2016
Joanne Ng, University College London
2015
Christos Georgiadis, UCL, Institute of Child Health
2014
Rachel Dakin, University of Edinburgh
2013
Ben Mead, University of Birmingham
Runner Up
Juliette Delhove, Queen Mary, University of London
2012
Sara Ghorashian, University College London
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Peggy Sung, Institute of Child Health, UCL
2011
Margaret Duffy, University of Glasgow
2010
Stuart Martin, University of Warwick
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Natalie Ward, Institute of Child Health, UCL
2009
Ryan Cawood, University of Oxford
2008
Veronique Bachy, King’s College London
2007
Susannah Bailey, Institute of Child Health, UCL
2006
Ian Pringle, University of Oxford