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Bentley Nelstrop Medal for Enterprise and Innovation

Winners:  2025 - Ji Zhou for his dedication and excellence in making a significant impact to the organisation, moving Niab ahead of many other UK agricultural institutes in AI and plant phenotyping, while growing Niab’s Data Science team. 2024 - Tricia …

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Dr Stefan Kusch

Stefan Kusch studied biology at Göttingen University (Germany) and earned his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in 2017. He then joined the INRAE in Toulouse (France), where he helped uncover the evolution of broad host range in a fungal plant …

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Ross Newham

Ross is responsible for much of the day-to-day operational running of the site including facilities, health & safety, quality control (EMQA), etc, and occasionally helping the science staff communicate their activities to external audiences. Ross has …

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Mitzi Else

Mitzi has been a project administrator at East Malling since March 2019, providing administrative support to the CTP PhD studentship programmes, both at East Malling and Cambridge. She also provides general administrative support to other projects, such …

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Field trials

Information flyer Niab conducts trials and evaluations on a wide range of agricultural and horticultural crops. We have over 100 years’ experience across a wide range of crop and plant species and have the equipment and facilities to grow and record as …

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Dr Tamunonengiye-ofori (Nengi) Lawson

Nengi holds an MSc in molecular biology with biotechnology (Bangor University, Wales) and a PhD studying the ripening process of tropical mango ( Mangifera indica L.) with a particular focus on the Rab GTPases (University of Nottingham). Based at NIAB …

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Dr Nada Šurbanovski

Based at East Malling, Nada's research interests focus on the intersection between genetics and environment and the function that small non-coding RNAs and epigenetic mechanisms play in the information flow within the plant and between the plant and its …

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