{"id":2930,"date":"2026-09-28T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:05:39","slug":"congratulations-vanessa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2026\/09\/28\/congratulations-vanessa\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Vanessa!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today our very own Dr Vanessa Benjamin received the Global Marine Excellence Award at the Caribbean Global Awards, recognized for &#8220;outstanding contributions, leadership and dedicated service to the advancement and sustainability of marine ecosystems in the Caribbean and beyond.&#8221; This achievement reflects over two decades of dedication as a marine biologist in The Bahamas, alongside Vanessa&#8217;s recent work as a tissue engineer pioneering research in cell-cultivated seafood and marine collagen, and as Founder &amp; CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/cobobiosolutions.com\/\">Cobo Biosolutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503217.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"904\" data-id=\"2931\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503217.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503217.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503217-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503217-768x868.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2933\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503026-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503026-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503026-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503026.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503297.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"599\" data-id=\"2932\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503297.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503297.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2026\/09\/1790595503297-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Well done and very well deserved!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today our very own Dr Vanessa Benjamin received the Global Marine Excellence Award at the Caribbean Global Awards, recognized for &#8220;outstanding contributions, leadership and dedicated service to the advancement and sustainability of marine ecosystems in the Caribbean and beyond.&#8221; This achievement reflects over two decades of dedication as a marine biologist in The Bahamas, alongside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/2026\/09\/28\/congratulations-vanessa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congratulations Vanessa!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musculoskeletal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}