Congratulations, Laura
The Joan Mott Prize Lecture is an award from the UK Physiological Society and is one of the Society’s most prestigious international awards. The biennial award is given to outstanding women physiologists, celebrating their long-term contribution to their research discipline, leadership and mentoring. The prize is awarded in memory of Joan Mott, who was an English physiologist at Oxford University, working in the areas of fetal physiology and endocrinology.
Professor Laura Bennet, is the head of the Department of Physiology and co-director of the Fetal Physiology and Neuroscience research team in the department. She received this prize in recognition of her research work in the area of perinatal physiology, and in particular preterm fetal physiology, as well as her leadership in the field of physiology and her mentoring of many students and fellows all around the world. The award to Laura marks the first time the prize has been given to a scientist from the southern hemisphere.