Arthur Fonville Award for Stroke Research 2016: competition now open

July 2016: The Arthur Fonville Award 2016 competition is now open. This prize is awarded for the best dissertation about stroke research written by a medical student at Edinburgh.

The Arthur Fonville Award is a prize for a 1,500 word dissertation summarising a research project into any aspect of stroke, conducted by a medical student registered at the University of Edinburgh in their clinical years. There is a prize of £100 for the best entry.

This posthumous award was established in memory of Arthur Fonville, a medical student from the University of Amsterdam, who worked with the Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage (RUSH) team in Edinburgh 2011-2013 and died in September 2014.

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Recipients of the Arthur Fonville Award 2015
Recipients of the Arthur Fonville Award 2015

The closing date for this year's competition is 21st September 2016.

For more information visit www.eemec.med.ed.ac.uk/pages/arthur-fonville-award

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Arthur Fonville Award 2015 recipients

Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage research programme