Medical Student Clinical Genetics Essay Prize - win up to £250 or international conference attendance

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Dear students,

The Clinical Genetics Society is pleased to invite submissions for the Clinical Genetics Society Medical Student Prize 2025-2026:
‘Newborn genome sequencing: protecting the future or overstepping the present?’

Deadline: 12pm GMT, Monday 1st December 2025

Entries should be up to 2,000 words.


The winner can pick either of the two following options:

a) Free registration, up to 2 days accommodation, and a travel grant of up to £150 for the 10th Joint Meeting of the UK /Dutch Clinical Genetics Societies & Cancer Genetics groups on the 2nd-3rd of March 2026 at Maastricht, in the south of the Netherlands.

b) £250 cash prize


The winning essay will also be published in the abstract book for the conference and on the CGS website.

For further details, including important information regarding submissions, please see the attached pdf.