(Medical Sciences 2004) has been awarded the 2025 by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Arpan is an Independent Investigator at the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit (MRC PPU) at the University of Dundee. The Croom Prize is awarded annually for a proposed lecture related to research within the last five years. Arpan will deliver his winning lecture this week, speaking on both his previous and forthcoming research into a neurodegenerative disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or motor neuron disease (MND).
The Croom Prize is named for another distinguished Caian, Sir John Halliday Croom (History & Medicine 1927), who was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1970 to 1973 and played an influential role in improving postgraduate medical education and training in Scotland.
