Prestigious Royal Society award for Nottingham Trent University scientist
13 February 2013
A scientist at NTU has received a prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science. Carole Perry – Professor of Bioinorganic and Materials Chemistry in the University's School of Science and Technology – joins a small list of researchers to be given the annual award.
The award is jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and provides universities with additional support to enable them to attract and retain UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.
Professor Perry is head of the University's Biomolecular Materials Interface Research Group and her work focuses on understanding how biomolecules and cells interact with materials. Understanding these interactions could lead to 'design principles' for new syntheses to novel materials.
"I am very grateful for this award, which recognises the contribution my science has made and will continue to make to the UK science community," said Professor Perry.