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Cytosponge is gamechanger in oesophageal cancer diagnosis
Trials of Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald’s Cytosponge have found the ‘pill on a string’ can identify ten times more people with the pre-cancerous condition Barrett’s oesophagus than the conventional detection methods.
Trinity welcomes Gates Scholars
Trinity College will welcome five new Gates Scholars in September: Emma Gattey who is completing a Masters in Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford; Yinou Han from the University of Sydney; Sarah Hirschfield from Princeton University, and Ri Yang Benjamin Tan who is studying for an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History here at Trinity. The fifth scholar is Dan-Mircea Mirea from Romania who will defer for a year.
Tributes paid to Dr Ian McDonald
Trinity colleagues have paid tribute to the chemist, Dr Ian McDonald (1938-2020), who died on 19 July 2020.
Reflection: Approaching
Guy Gunaratne, Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts, offers the latest in the series of Reflections by Trinity Fellows. Guy is the author of a prize-winning debut novel In Our Mad and Furious City published in 2018.
Trinity appoints Richard Turnill as Senior Bursar
The former Global Chief Investment Strategist of BlackRock and Cambridge alumnus, Richard Turnill, has been appointed Senior Bursar of Trinity College.