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Award recipient, Roisin F Kelly-Laubscher.
Andries Brink-Kaye award
The winners of the Andries Brink-Kaye award for a most
outstanding scientific publication in the
Cardiovascular Journal
of Africa
for 2014 were Dr Roisin Finola Kelly-Laubscher
and her team from the Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular
Research in Africa, University of Cape Town. The article, titled
Cardiac preconditioning with sphingosine-1-phosphate requires
activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription-3,
was published in
Cardiovasc J Afr
2014;
25
(3): 118–123. Dr
Kelly-Laubscher is seen here receiving the award on behalf of
the team.