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The Richard Williams Memorial Award 2021

  • June 17, 2021
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The Richard Williams Memorial Award 2021 The Industrial Genotoxicology Group (IGG) are proud to offer the award honoring the scientific contributions and memory of Dr. Richard Williams, set up by Lhasa. This award supports early career investigators within industry. The Richard Williams Memorial Award will include a certificate, travel, registration and accommodation expenses for attendance […]

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UKEMS Virtual Skills Workshop

  • May 25, 2021
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NUKEMS VIRTUAL SKILLS WORKSHOP Virtual Event | 19th July 2021 | 09:30-16:00 BST We have an exciting programme of events which we hope will really help our early career scientists. We also encourage active participation through the pre-submission of questions for certain sessions, which can be found on our event website via the links on […]

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Nominations Requested for the 2021 Jim Parry Award

  • February 10, 2021
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Following the announcement at the 2020 UKEMS AGM, the UKEMS Committee are accepting nominations for the 2021 Jim Parry Award. The Jim Parry Award is given to a senior scientist (and present or past member of UKEMS) who, in the opinion of the UKEMS committee, has made substantial contributions to the field of environmental mutagenesis. Please […]

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Call to New Investigators

  • December 18, 2020
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Are you a new investigator? Do you know someone who is? New investigators are any early career scientists, from those working within industry to students. Generally, they will have the equivalent of up to 4-6 years’ worth of post-doc experience (but they won’t necessarily have a PhD!). You may be familiar with the ‘Sunday sessions’ […]

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UKEMS Fellow: Steve Dean

  • November 24, 2020
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UKEMS is delighted to announce that Steve Dean has been recognised for his outstanding service to environmental mutagenesis through the conferment of the title of UKEMS Fellow. Steve has been involved with UKEMS since completing his PhD with Margaret Fox at the Paterson in the early eighties. He had postdocs at Georgetown University then at […]

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IGG2020

  • November 12, 2020
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Registration is open for this year’s online IGG meeting, to be held on the 30th of November at 2pm (until approximately 5.30 pm). This year we are hosting the first Richard Williams Memorial Award, sponsored by Lhasa Ltd, which will be contested by three excellent early career scientists – you get to vote for the […]

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UKEMS PhD Support for COVID-19 Disruption

  • October 14, 2020
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UKEMS is aware of the problems faced by many PhD students due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Many students have lost valuable laboratory time and are having to extend their PhD candidatures to catch up. In some cases, students are not receiving funding to cover their living expenses for this extended period of time. This problem […]

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Richard Williams Award

  • October 14, 2020
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The Richard Williams Memorial Award The Industrial Genotoxicology Group (IGG) are proud to support an award honouring the scientific contributions and memory of Dr. Richard Williams, set up by Lhasa. This award will support early career investigators within industry. The Richard Williams Memorial Award will include a certificate, travel, registration and accommodation expenses for attendance […]

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