Talks about tea and prison food are best of excellent set of entries
The annual battle for the prestigious Cuthbertson Prize was a close-run affair, with seven fascinating and cleverly-presented lectures showing off the quality, breadth and great potential benefits to society of the work being done at The Rowett by the latest generation of PhD researchers.
Dhamyaa Al-Halboosi, Nouf Alkhattabi, Tasneem Baabbad, Annika Bucky and Mansi Tiwari made sure there was no easy afternoon for the judges - but in the end the panel decided top marks went to Edward Payne (The effects of tea on cognition and mood, scienteafically speaking) with runner-up spot awarded to Leonida Mosomi (Within and beyond prison walls – food intake, nutritional status and health of incarcerated individuals and prison officers in Kenya and in the UK).
They will both go on to represent the Rowett in competition with other institutes at the SEFARI showcase on October 24th/25th at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.
The Cuthbertson Prize is named after Dr (Sir) David Cuthbertson, Director of the Rowett from 1945-1965, who oversaw a substantial expansion of the institute and the beginning of the establishment of our global reputation for nutrition research - helping many young researchers to get started with their careers along the way.