Anna Guinot Aguado, Maddie Mitchell and Connie Rich are among a unique group of PhD students. Each year Cambridge receives hundreds of applications for a small number of prestigious awards funded by the late Dr Herchel Smith, the scientist behind the development of the oral contraceptive pill.
Offered to some of the world’s brightest young life sciences researchers, these studentships honour Smith’s wish to perpetuate academic education in the sciences over the centuries to come.
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Image: (Left to right) Connie Rich, Anna Guinot Aguado and Maddie Mitchell
Credit: Jacqueline Garget
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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