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Twelve outstanding articles have been shortlisted for this year’s Max Perutz Science Writing Award, the MRC’s annual writing competition. The shortlist includes our DPhil student Magda Mareckova (pictured).

Good luck to our DPhil student Magda Mareckova. Her article: “One in ten women suffers from endometriosis - can studying the endometrium cell by cell help us diagnose it?” is shortlisted for this year’s Max Perutz Science Writing Award, the MRC’s annual writing competition.

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