Prizes & scholarships

Bosch Institute Young Investigators are eligible for a number of prizes to reward research excellence including:

• The Bercovici Medal and Prize (DOC) for the best scientific paper written by a postgraduate research student within the Bosch Institute.
• The Rebecca L Cooper Medal and Prize (DOC) for the best research paper published by a postdoctoral researcher within the Bosch Institute.
• Several prizes for the best presentations given at the Young Investigator Symposium, including the John Young prizes.

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

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?"