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Thomas McDonnell wins Medical Research Foundation Emerging Leaders Prize
30 November 2022
UCL Biochemical Engineering Research Fellow Dr Thomas McDonnell (pictured below right) is one of three exceptional lupus researchers to have been announced as winners of the Medical Research Foundation’s 2022 Emerging Leaders Prize.
Funded by a generous gift in Will from Dr Erina Herrick, the 2022 prize awards a total of £220,000 to researchers from the University of Liverpool, University of Oxford, and University College London.
Up to 50,000 people in the UK are thought to have lupus, a complex, long-term illness that can cause damage to the skin, organs, joints or any other part of the human body.