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Best poster prize for Michaelis!

30 March 2026

Congratulations to Michaelis Vasiliadis for winning the Poster Prize (a brand-new lab coat!) at the 9th Annual Mutational Scanning Symposium in Melbourne! 🎉

Michaelis presented some of his work aimed at improving our understanding of the disease mechanism behind the 94bp deletion in the SLC16A1 promoter recently identified as a cause of congenital hyperinsulinism. We done Michaelis!  Our preprint describing the discovery of this variant is on MedRxiv: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.16.25342131v1

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