All third year PhD students at the Beatson are eligible for this Award, named after Dr John Paul, the founding Director of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research. Candidates prepare a progress report on their work, and present a lecture to staff and other students.
 
Recipients include:

2006 - Francois Gonzalvez, from Eyal Gottlieb's group, for his work on cardiolipin and apoptosis
 

2007 - Sam Lawn, from Brad Ozanne's group, for his work on the role of P-Rex1 in cell invasion
 

2008 - Lye Mun Tho, from David Gillespie's group, for his work on the role of Chk1 in tumour formation and progression
 

2009 - Marta Dozynkiewicz, from Jim Norman's group, for her work on integrin recycling and tumour cell invasion
 

2010 - Dhaval Varshney, from Bob White's group, for his work on DNA methylation, chromatin and RNA polymerase III