SRF Stewart Rhind Science Writing Prize - Previous Winners

2022 Winner

From your knowledge of reproductive biology, critically evaluate in detail, one possiblecause of mass of infertility that could explain the situation in the Handmaid’s Tale.

Sophie Carrol

2021 Winner

Do physicians have a duty to disclose the child’s diagnosis to them against the will of their parents in teh case of CAIS?

Stefany Soh

2020 Winner

Puma knockout protects the uterus from radiotherapy-mediated damage: implications for fertility preservation for female cancer survivors

Clare Pearson

2019 Winner

‘Ethicolegal Aspects of Reproductive Science: Adapting the 14-day rule for embryo research to encompass evolving technologies’

Kate Williams

University of Cambridge

3rd year Medicine

2018 Winner

Reverie or reality? The search for a new male contraceptive

Scott Calvert

University of St Andrews

3rd year Medicine

2017 Winner

The Current State of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy

Kirsty Uttley

University of Edinburgh

4th year BSc Hons Biological Sciences (Molecular Genetics) 

2016 Winner

The Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Dosage Compensation in Mammals

Lina Zakarauskaite

University of Edinburgh

3rd year BSc Hons Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacology)

2015 Winner

Mitochondrial transfer – the future for inherited mitochondrial disease?

Ho-Yi Tang 

University of Oxford

2014 Winner

Emerging evidence for the stem-cell and diverse tissue origins of epithelial ovarian cancer: could this be a step towards new treatment approaches?

Veslina Petrova

University of Edinburgh

2013 Winner

“The Prozac Nation”: SSRIs and fertility – mind over matter? 

Emily Cornish, University of Oxford

Reading for BM BCh in Clinical Medicine