Professor Clive Lee, Head of the RCSI Department of Anatomy, was elected as President of the Anatomical Society at the society's December AGM in Newcastle in the United Kingdom.

Professor Lee is the fourth Irish person to be elected President of the Society in its 127-year history. Professor Lee will serve a three-year term.

Based in London, the Anatomical Society promotes, develops and advances research and education in anatomy.

Each year, the Society awards four PhD studentships and, this year, Dr Garry Duffy, RCSI Lecturer in Anatomy received one for his project ‘Decoding the extrinsic regulation of cardiac stem cell fate in cardiovascular disease'.