Congratulations to 2nd Year PhD student Emma Couves who won first place for Science Communication in the Cancer at Imperial Poster Competition 2019

Emma’s PhD work is funded by Cancer Research UK and is co supervised by Ed and Doryen Bubeck in the Department of Life Sciences. Emma’s poster focused on using cryo-electron microscopy to understand how tumours are able to evade the innate immune response.

The poster competition was run in collaboration with the Division of Cancer and the CRUK Imperial Centre and took place online via Workplace, the CRUK Imperial Centre’s digital communication and collaboration hub. This innovative approach aimed to widen access and participation across the college’s seven campuses and increase the sustainability of poster competitions by reducing student costs and the material waste of printed posters.

The competition was open to any imperial researcher working in the area of cancer research and there were three categories of prize: science communication, impact on cancer research and people’s choice. Emma received the prize for science communication and was awarded a bursary to attend any UK-based cancer conference in 2020.

All posters from the competition can be viewed on Workplace. If you are not already a member you can find details on how to sign up here.