Congratulations to our PhD student David Barrett, who has won the prestigious 2016 Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Young Investigator Award for his article published in the October 2016 issue of the Prenatal Diagnosis journal. The title of David's article is “Connexin 43 is overexpressed in human fetal membrane defects after fetoscopic surgery”. The Young Investigator Award honors the best article published in the Prenatal Diagnosis journal during the previous calendar year with a first author under the age of 40 years.
David Barrett received $1500 and the opportunity to present his research at the 2017 International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis meeting in San Diego (9–12 July 2017).

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