Prizes and appointments

12 November 2008

‘The Heart’, the book to accompany the Wellcome Collection exhibition of the same name, has won first prize in the popular medicine category of the 2008 British Medical Association book competition.

Dr Sarah Reece, Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, has been awarded one of four 2008 L’Oreal UK and Ireland Fellowships for Women in Science, which support outstanding female postdoctoral researchers.

Professor Adrian Bird, Deputy Chairman of the Trust’s Board of Governors, is the 2008 recipient of the Charles Leopold Mayer Prize, awarded by the French Academy of Sciences for his work in biology.

Wellcome Collection’s Head of Public Programmes, Ken Arnold, has become the Museum Association’s first research associate. In this unpaid position he will be investigating the role and significance of exhibitions and events in museums.