MEMBERSHIP IBMS President’s Prizes
Ulster University Catherine Scullion received an IBMS President’s Prize at the Ulster University Faculty of Life and Health Sciences graduation ceremony held in June. Catherine, who graduated with first-class honours, undertook her pathology placement year in the Cellular and Molecular Pathology Department at Antrim Area Hospital. Catherine will commence PhD studies at Ulster in September, investigating novel targets of DNA methylation. The presentation to Catherine was made by Ruth Boyce (Chair, IBMS Northern Ireland branch) and Professor Neville McClenaghan (Head of School of Biomedical Sciences).
Oxford Brookes University Jenna Angle was this year’s recipient of the IBMS President’s Prize at Oxford Brookes University. A keen rower, Jenna also performed outstandingly in her studies and received the Microbiology Society Undergraduate Prize during her second year. Jenna, who begins a course in dentistry at Newcastle University in September, was presented with the award by Tim James (Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes).
Glasgow Caledonian University Duygu Tansu Gunes received the IBMS President’s Prize at Glasgow Caledonian University. Duygu was an excellent student throughout her BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science course, approached her studies with enthusiasm and dedication, and thoroughly deserved her award of a first-class honours degree. Duygu, pictured receiving her prize from Dr Linda Walsh (Programme Leader for Biomedical Science), intends to embark on a career in medicine.
Institute archives donated to the Wellcome Trust
On the advice of the History Committee, Council has donated the Institute’s archives to the Wellcome Trust. The archives comprise the original documents relating to the formation of the Institute, in 1912, as the Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratory Assistants’ Association (PBLAA). These include handwritten minute books, ledgers and membership registers, as well a letter written in 1896 relating to the proposed formation of an Association for Laboratory Assistants. In addition, there are the minutes of Council and its committees from 1942 to 1990, and a complete set of the Institute’s publications from 1912 to date, the Annual Reports and other relevant documents. Dr Derek Farr consulted many of the
earliest documents for Learn, That You May Improve, his history of the Institute published in 1982. The materials were rediscovered by Dr David Petts and Tony Harding in a storage facility at Edmonton and were used by them as source material for Letters of
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Consequence: A History of the Institute of Biomedical Science, produced for the Institute’s centenary in 2012. The archives were moved to a safe at
12 Coldbath Square, but, as many are over 100 years old and becoming fragile, storage conditions became a concern. While the safe is fireproof, it allows no control for protection of the documents against humidity or variation in temperature, which are potentially damaging to archival materials. The Wellcome Library for the History and
Understanding of Medicine is one of the world’s major resources for the study of medical history. It houses collections of archives, rare manuscripts and books, journals and other electronic and print sources related to the history and practice of medical science. The Wellcome Trust accepts archival materials as gifts and holds them in an off-site storage facility, known as DeepStore. This Cheshire-based facility, a working salt mine, contains top-quality facilities for archival
storage, which are used by the National Archives, Crossrail and The Royal Society. The facility’s capabilities are extensive; the equivalent of 700 football pitches, and staff are trained in the special handling and care of rare and fragile materials. Security, temperature and humidity levels are monitored, and are kept at ideal settings for the continued protection and storage of rare materials. Now housed by the Wellcome Trust, the
Institute’s original volumes are safe from further danger and are available to researchers for study. However the intellectual property rights remain with the IBMS. The documents were scanned prior to their transfer, which means that members, scholars and researchers may, by prior appointment, access them at the Institute’s offices in Coldbath Square, which also houses a complete set of Institute publications and an extensive library of historically relevant books.
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