Kif Liakath-Ali has been awarded first prize in the British Society for Cell Biology's annual Image Competition.  Kif received his prize at the BSCB meeting in Coventry for his image, which he captured whilst performing a reverse genetic screen to identify skin phenotypes from knockout mice.

Former Wattlab PhD student Dr Kai Kretzschmar (above, right) was named the 2015 Nikon Young Scientist of the DGZ (German Society for Cell Biology). He received the award diploma from DGZ president Professor Ralph Gräf (above, centre) and Nikon GmbH representative Dr Michael Möller (above, left) at the society's annual meeting in Cologne.

Emanuel Rognoni beat off stiff competition and was presented with the Young Investigator Award (YID) at the annual DGMB (German Society of Matrix biology) meeting in Muenster.

Professor Fiona Watt and Dr Inês Sequeira were featured in a piece on the BBC in January, following a visit to our lab from a TV news crew.  Professor Watt was interviewed for the story on "Medical milestones of 2014". Watch the video on BBC online.

When Professor Watt visited Australia to deliver a keynote speech for the Sydney Cancer Conference, she was also invited by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Australia to give a seminar about one of the UK's '8 Great Technologies' - Regenerative Medicine, and opportunities for Australian companies working in this area.