Prizes & scholarships
Bosch Institute Young Investigators are eligible for a number of prizes to reward research excellence including:
- The Bercovici Medal and Prize for the best scientific paper written by a postgraduate research student within the Bosch Institute. Click to see prize winners.
- TheRebecca L Cooper Medal and Prize for the best research paper published by a postdoctoral researcher within the Bosch Institute. Click to see prize winners.
- Several prizes for the best presentations given at the Young Investigator Symposium, including the John Young prizes.
BERCOVICI MEDAL AND PRIZE WINNERS
2010 - Erin Goddard
"Combination of subcortical color channels in human visual cortex"
2010 - Janet van Eersel
"Sodium selenate mitigates tau pathology, neurodegeneration, and functional deficits in Alzheimer's disease models"
2009 - Sean Lal
"Using antibody arrays to detect microparticles from acute coronary syndrome patients based on cluster of differentiation (CD) antigen expression"
2008 - Daniel Getts
"Ly6c+ "inflammatory monocytes" are microglial precursors recruited in a pathogenic manner in West Nile virus encephalitis"
2007 - Joshua Young
"Cortical reorganization consistent with spike timing – but not correlation-dependent plasticity"
2006 - Maryam Seyedabadi
"A novel pressor area at the medullo-cercical junction that is not dependent on the RVLM: efferent pathways and chemical mediators"
2005 - Kimberley Alexander
"Differential protenin expression in the prefrontal white matter of human alcholoics: a preteomics study"
2004 - Catherine Stedman
"Feed-forward regulation of bile acid detoxification by CYP3A4. Studies in humanized transgenic mice"
2003 - Rita Machaalani
"Increased neuronal cell death after intermittent hypercapnic hyposia in the developing piglet brainstem"
2002 - David Adams
"ZNF265 - a novel splicesomal protein able to induce alternative splicing"
2001 - Monique Heinke
"Apoptosis of ventricular and atrial myocytes from pacing-induced canine hear failure"
2000 - Michelle Cummins
"Purinergic responses in HT29 colonic epithelial cells are mediated by G protein alpha subunits"
1999 - Samuel Solomon
"Temporal contrast sensitivity in the marmoset lateral geniculate nucleus"
1998 - Keith Brain
1997 - Yvette Morcos
REBECCA L COOPER WINNERS
2010 - Dr Paul J Austin
"Peripheral nerve injury differentially regulates dopaminergic pathways in the nucleus accumbens of rats with either "pain alone" or "pain and disability""
2009 - Dr Aaron Camp
"Adaptable mechanisms that regulate the contrast response of neurons in the primate lateral geniculate nucleus"
2008 - Dr Rita Machaalani
"Neuronal cell death in the sudden infant death syndrome brainstem and associations with risk factors"
2007 - Dr Renae Ryan
"The uncoupled chloride conductance of a bacterial glutamate transport homolog"
2006 - Dr Andrea Markus
"WT1 interacts with the splicing protein RBM4 and regulates is ability to modulate alternative splicing in vivo"
2005 - Dr Othon Gervasio
"Increased ratio of rapsyn to Ach receptor stabilizes postsynaptic receptors at the mouse neuromuscular synapse"
2004 - Dr Janette Burgess
"Detection and characterisation of OX40 ligand expression in human airway smooth muscle cells: a possible role in asthma?"