23 Jul 2025
IBME DPhil student wins prize for outstanding medical research
Munib Mesinovic, a DPhil student supervised by Professor Tingting Zhu, has been awarded a Royal Society of Medicine Student Prize
The Royal Society of Medicine Student Prize is awarded to outstanding student-led medical research across the UK that advances impactful and innovative approaches to healthcare.
In addition to a cash prize, recipients are invited to present their work at the Tomorrow’s Doctors Conference, which is designed specifically for early-career medics, providing a platform to engage with clinicians and researchers from across the country.
At the conference, Munib Mesinovic, Institute of Biomedical Engineering DPhil student, delivered a talk titled "Powering Medical Decision-Making with AI: From Graphs to Grafts", which explored novel methods for modelling complex, multi-modal clinical data using hierarchical and dynamic graph-based neural networks. These models offer interpretable, flexible alternatives to the increasingly popular transformer-based foundation models in healthcare. He focused particularly on how this approach can support transplant offer decision-making, proposing a graph-based AI system to improve donor-recipient matching across the NHS.
He says, “Having my interdisciplinary and technical research recognised by the Royal Society of Medicine is incredibly motivating, not only for the recognition itself but also for the affirmation that the novel engineering work we do is making meaningful contributions to clinical practice."
