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ESA Newsletter: November 2001

Novartis Junior Scientist Award

Congratulations to Stephen Headey, winner of the 2001 Novartis Junior Scientist Award for the best presentation by an Advanced Trainee or a person enrolled for a higher degree (PhD, MD, FRACP) at the Annual Scientific Meeting.

Stephen is from the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre. He received this award for his paper entitled:

"The N-terminal domain of Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-6 confers its Insulin-Like Growth Factor-II binding specificity."

This paper was co-authored by Nigel Parker and Leon Bach of the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Gary Jamieson of the Austin Research Institute and
Ray Norton of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

Applicants were initially judged on the basis of submitted abstracts and 6 finalists were chosen.

The other finalists were Dora Papamakarios, Lisa Di Nezza and Pavel Sluka of Prince Henry’s Institute, Vanessa Murphy of the Mothers and Babies Research Centre, University of Newcastle, and Miles De Blasio of the Department of Physiology, University of Adelaide. Stephen received his
award at the Annual Dinner of the ESA, where all other finalists were guests of the Society.

We appreciate and look forward to the continued involvement of Novartis with this Award, as well as the outstanding scientific contributions made by our younger members.

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