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Congratulations Dr Rhiannon Beard!
Rhiannon passed her PhD viva on her thesis on development of precise chemical biology tools for the imaging of the oxytocin receptor within the central nervous system. Congratulations Dr Beard! Rhiannon is currently an EPSRC research assistant within the group working on novel vehicles for imaging on the far side of the blood-brain barrier.
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Jennie Hutton
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