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女王医学研究院
四位杰出的临床医学研究人员将要接到英国医学研究理事会富有盛名的研究基金，这四位研究人员来自爱丁堡大学耗资4900万英镑新建的女王医学研究院（Queen’s Medical Research Institute）。
英国医学研究理事会奖金，是给予临床医学博士后的研究基金，可提供四年的资金支持。这不但能巩固临床研究人员的研究技能，并能促其从博士后阶段的研究与训练转变到独立开展研究的阶段。
每年英国医学研究会发出10份临床医学科学家研究基金，这是今年全苏格兰唯一得到的此项研究基金。
女王医学研究院院长Chris Haslett教授说：能够获得医学研究理事会这项竞争激烈而富有盛名的研究基金，是这四位优秀年轻医学科学家的一大成绩。同时，获得这项研究基金，对医学研究，对于今后女王医学研究院为苏格兰以及全英国人民提供更好的医疗服务，都创造了更为优越的环境。
爱丁堡大学的这四位研究员是：
1、儿科内分泌医师Mandy Drake博士，
2、肾病专业医师（ specialist registrar）Bryan Conway博士 ，
3、内分泌和糖尿病方面的专业医师Moffat Nyirenda博士，
4、临床医学讲师Gareth Stewart博士，Stewart博士在肺脏损伤、修复和纤维化方面有着研究兴趣。
注：specialist registrar 指在英国某一医学专业领域正接受高级训练，以期最终成为顾问医师的人。
Prestigious Awards Benefit Medical Research
Four outstanding clinical researchers based at The University of Edinburgh’s new ￡49m Queen’s Medical Research Institute are to receive highly prestigious Medical Research Council awards.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) awards are post doctoral clinical fellowships and provide up to four years financial support. This enables clinical researchers to consolidate their research skills and make the transition from postdoctoral research and training to independent investigator.
Up to ten Clinician Scientist Fellowships are awarded each year by the MRC, and the grants are the only awards to researchers in Scotland this year.
Prof Chris Haslett, Director of the Queen’s Medical Research Institute commented, “The award of such renowned and highly competitive MRC fellowships is not only a major accomplishment for these four excellent young medical scientists, but also underpins the exceptional environment for medical research and the development of future treatments that the new Queen’s Medical Research Institute affords for Scotland and indeed Britain as a whole.”
The four University of Edinburgh researchers are: Dr Mandy Drake, a paediatric endocrinologist; Dr Bryan Conway a specialist registrar in kidney disease; Dr Moffat Nyirenda, a specialist in endocrinology and diabetes; and Dr Gareth Stewart, a clinical lecturer with research interests in the field of lung injury, repair and fibrosis.
