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Victoria Cowling Wins £200,000 Lister Institute Research Award

Victoria Cowling, a researcher at the College of Life Sciences’ Division of Cell Biology and Immunology at the University of Dundee in Scotland received a Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Research Award. The prestigious award comes with £200,000 to support her research over the next five years.

Dr. Cowling is conducting genetic studies that she hopes will lead to the development of new cancer treatments. She is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and completed her doctoral studies at the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories in London. She did postdoctoral research at Princeton University and Dartmouth College.

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