Sanger (Biological Natural Sciences) Prize
Prize Details
St John’s College will proudly present again this year the Sanger (Biological Natural Sciences) Prize. The Sanger Prize is a one-off award of £8,000 to a first year Home undergraduate student coming to study Natural Sciences (Biological) at the College in October 2024.
The prize will be awarded on the basis of both academic excellence and financial need. The aim is to increase the accessibility of the College to applicants from all backgrounds, who might otherwise be daunted by the national increase in tuition fees.
Shortlisted students will be invited to apply for the prize shortly after the announcement of the A-level results in August. The winner of the prize will receive the award in a ceremony, which will take place in the College in Michaelmas Term.
Frederick Sanger
The Sanger Prize has been named after Frederick Sanger, the famous British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, one of only two people to have achieved this in the same category.
Sanger, who had gone to Bryanston school in Dorset, won a scholarship to study Natural Sciences at St John's College in 1936. His pioneering work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin, and DNA has introduced a new era in the field of medicine and genetics.
