Dr. Serena Nik-Zainal – a Malaysian scientist currently based in Cambridge, UK – has been awarded the highly-acclaimed Francis Crick Medal and Lecture 2022 by the national academy of sciences, The Royal Society in the UK.
Recognition for Nik-Zainal’s work comes after the learned society elected to highlight the scientist’s “enormous contributions to understanding the aetiology of cancers.
As is tradition, Nik-Zainal will be awarded a bronze medal and a prize money sum of US$2750 (GBP2,000) during her associated prize lecture, which will be given in 2022.
