“I have been promoted to Reader at my host institution, and the research enabled by the fellowship was quite instrumental in achieving this”

Source: Waclaw B, Bozic I, Pittman ME, Hruban RH, Vogelstein B, Nowak MA. 2015. A spatial model predicts that dispersal and cell turnover limit intratumour heterogeneity. Nature 525:261–264. doi:10.1038/nature14971

Bartlomiej Waclaw is a biological physicist at the University of Edinburgh. Bartlomiej was awarded a RSE Scottish Government Personal Research Fellowship in 2013, a five year programme which enabled him to research physical processes in the biological evolution of cellular populations.