The Eisenthal Prize

The Eisenthal Prize of £500 will be awarded to the top ranked student applicant.

Professor Robert Eisenthal, formerly of the Biology and Biochemistry Department at Bath University, was a long standing and active member of the Biochemical Society.

Sadly, Robert passed away on October 16th 2007. In his memory the Society instituted The Eisenthal Prize to honour his commitment to science education and wishes this prize to be a lasting mark of respect for a colleague who did so much to make the Studentship scheme so successful.

Professor Eisenthal was a huge supporter of furthering the practical experiences available to undergraduate scientists. He spent a great deal of thought and effort awarding grants as a member of the Society's Summer Vacation Studentship Review Panel. Robert's algorithm to rank all applicants ensured the fairness and transparency of decision making by the Review Panel and many students will have unwittingly benefited from Robert Eisenthal's involvement with the educational output of the Biochemical Society.

Many members of the Biochemical Society, Staff and especially the Education Committee will miss Robert greatly.

The student applicant ranked as top awardee each year will receive a £500 on completion of their summer vacation studentship and submitted their report.

Eisenthal prize winners

The 2013 winner of the Eisenthal Prize is Anna Miles from University College London. Anna will be working with Professor Stephen Perkins on her project entitled "Role of the molecular interactions between Complement C3d and Factor H in regulating the complement cascade of innate immunity".

The 2012 winner was Laura Mariotti from University College London, who's project was entitled "Structural studies of a Cdc37‐PP5 complex; regulation of Cdc37 by dephosphorylation".

Read Laura's article

The 2010 winner was Kotryna Temcinaite, who worked with with Malcolm F. White at the University of St. Andrews on "Novel lysine methylases in hyperthermophilic crenarchaea".

Read Kotryna's scientific report and Biochemist article.

The 2008 winner was Kevin Wu, who worked with Dr Gareth Evans at the University of York.

Read Kevin's report.

The 2011 winner was Jie Lily Huang from the University of Cambridge, who worked on Rab11-family interacting proteins and influenza. Read Lily's report.

The 2009 winner was Christien Buchwald, who worked with Dr Kathryn Taylor at Cardiff University. Christien's project was called 'Examination of the functional role of ZIP7 phosphorylation in the ZIP7-dependant zinc wave'.

Read Chris's blog and report.