On July 12, 2012, Dr. Elizabeth Murchison (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom), Eppendorf Young Investigator Award Winner 2012, visited Eppendorf AG in Hamburg to present her prize winning research at Eppendorf AG.

Elizabeth Murchison, born 1980, received the prize for her discoveries concerning a deadly cancer that is spreading among the endemic populationof Tasmanian devils in Tasmania and threatening the survival of the species.

You can learn more about Dr. Murchison’s research in a Nature podcast. An excerpt of the interview was published in Nature (issue 19th July), which can also be found on the Nature website.

Listen to the podcast on nature.com

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