Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Find out more about the shortlisted entrants for this year's Max Perutz Science Writing Award, as they tell us what motivated their research, why they entered the competition, what helped their writing and why it's important to communicate about their research.

We received the highest number of entries ever this year, with 140 applicants, and the quality of the articles was extremely high. The following entrants made the shortlist:

Kirsty Balachandran, Imperial College London

Miranda Buckle, MRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford

Isabella Goldsbrough, Imperial College London

Jonathan Lewis, MRC Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, University of Birmingham

Maria Stavrou, University of Edinburgh
Undoing the Straitjacket

Fernanda Teixeira Subtil, Francis Crick Institute
From the Palace to the Favela

Sarah Taylor, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh

Elisabeth Trinh, MRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Manchester

Stepheni Uh, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge

Julia Wiktoria Wcislo, University of Dundee

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