Professor Anna Dominiczak, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious award for her contribution to science.

Prof Dominiczak was presented with the William Harvey Outstanding Contribution to Science award during the William Harvey Research Institute’s Annual Research Review at St Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University London.

She also delivered a memorial lecture entitled ‘Genomics and other ‘omics: in search of systems and stratified medicine’.

Professor Dominiczak, who specialises in cardiovascular medicine, said: “I am delighted and honoured to have received this prestigious award from the William Harvey Research Institute.”

William Harvey was a physician who lived between 1578 and 1657 and was first person to describe the circulation of oxygenated blood round the body by the heart and was a physician to King James I.

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First published: 17 July 2013

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