Merton News

Assistant Head Teacher Simon Dawson was nominated for an Inspirational Teachers Award by first-year Medicine undergraduate Kaveeta Malhi.

The College flag is being flown and the Chapel bells rung to mark the accession of HIH Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan to the Chrysanthemum Throne.

Merton's Tutor in Organic Chemistry Professor Véronique Gouverneur and Supernumerary Fellow Professor Anant Parekh were named among this year's intake by the Royal Society's President, Venki Ramakrishnan.

Megan Engel (2013) has been named as one of 20 recipients of the 2019 Schmidt Science Fellowship to develop expertise in machine learning techniques to map the self-assembly process with unprecedented accuracy.

Véronique has obtained an Advanced Grant of €2.5 million from the European Research Council to develop a new catalytic manifold inspired by the natural fluorinase enzyme, that she has coined 'Hydrogen Bonding Phase Transfer Catalysis'.

This year’s history reading party found a new venue at Durstone Farm, near Bromyard in Herefordshire; the weather was fine and the surroundings peaceful.

MCBC's 2019 Torpids campaign culminated in both M1 and M2 winning blades.

Professors Robert MacLaren (1992) and Peter Charbel Issa (2009) were behind a recent ground-breaking gene therapy trial for the disease known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of untreatable blindness in the developed world.

Jutta Toscano (2014) has been included in this year's Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list for Science and Healthcare.

Anna Williams (2014) is a joint recipient of the two-year scholarship, awarded annually to students intending to follow a career at the Bar.