Covid treatments has been recognised as one of the best in her field after being rejected from university eight times. Holly Keir thought an undergraduate degree would be impossible after going through two rounds of UCAS applications and receiving numerous rejections.
The Dundee University PhD student has now won a prestigious award, 10 years after her first knock back - recognising her as one of the best and brightest young scientists in Britain.
Holly posted on social media thanking the "wonderful" people who helped her along the way and said she "couldn't be prouder" of her achievements.
She said: "10 years ago I’d done 2 rounds of UCAS applications and had 8 university rejections."I thought doing an undergrad degree was beyond me.
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