Medicine staff shortlisted for WISE Awards
Dr Kathryn Woods-Townsend, LifeLab Project Manager and Dr Ying Cheong, Associate Professor in Reproductive Medicine, have both been shortlisted for a 2016 WISE Award.
The WISE Awards showcase remarkable women and men whose stories are not widely known but are changing the face of science, technology and engineering in the UK.
Dr Woods-Townsend was shortlisted for a WISE Impact Award, and Dr Ying Cheong was shortlisted for a WISE Tech Start-Up Award.
Winners of this year’s awards will be announced at a ceremony in London on 10 November 2016.
The full shortlist is available to view here.
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Dr Kathryn Woods-Townsend BSc, MSc, PhD
Dr Kathryn Woods-Townsend is the LifeLab Programme Manager within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton.
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Professor Ying Cheong MB ChB, BAO, MA, FRCOG, MD
Professor Ying Cheong is Professor of Reproductive Medicine in Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. She is also the Associate Dean of Enterprise. In her clinical role, she is the Medical Director and Responsible Officer for Complete Fertility.
‘My dream is to make real time monitoring of the uterine environment a reality – so that for the very first time, we can start to understand what really happens in the uterus where the tiny embryo first starts to develop. From there on, we can start to investigate treatments that improve reproductive outcomes …’
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