Prizes
The SSG supports a number of awards and prizes for early-career researchers as well as established separations scientists. These include several recurring awards including:
Best Poster
Prize
Annual International Symposia on Advances in Extraction Technologies (ExTech) meetings
Best Student Presentation
London Biological Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (LBMSDG) meetings
The SSG’s Partnership with London Biology Mass Spectomoetry Discussion Group (LBMSDG)
Since 2015, we have awarded John Timm’s Best Student Presentation at one of the LBMSDG’s quarterly meetings. Winner receives £400 to be spent on expenses related to travel + accomodation costs at a conference of the student’s choosing.
How to be eligible:
Must be a student (part or full time)
Completed studies within six months of submitting an abstract
Most Recent Winner
Simran Kaur Aulakh was the winner of the John Timms Best Student Presentation award in 2023.
The award-winner is selected at the end of each year, when the LBMSDG committee reviews the presentations from each of the meetings, and the winner is announced at the March meeting of the LBMSDG.
Previous Winners
2018
Ms Zainab Ahdash
Kings College, London
Dissecting the mechanism of the HerA-NurA DNA break resection complex using native mass spectrometry
2016
Dr Heidi Gastall
UCB Celltech
doctoral research on small heat shock protein 27 (HSP27), which protects the cell under stress by interacting with partially folded protein substrates, and which is implicated in a wide range of diseases from Parkinson’s to cancer.
