PhD Student Wins the Best PhD Presentation Prize

The Life Sciences Research Network Wales (LSRNW), which supports world class science within Wales, hosted its 3rd Annual Drug Discovery Congress on 30th November and 1st December 2016 at St David’s Hotel, Cardiff.

Miss Bethan Frugtniet, 3rd year PhD student, CCMRC, delivered an award-winning presentation on the key findings from her PhD project, ‘Validation of nWASP as a therapeutic target in chronic and non-healing human wounds.’ The talk explained how the protein nWASP has been identified as an indicator of prognosis of wound healing and as a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of chronic wounds and explored the discovery of a novel connection between nWASP and TrkB signalling.


Miss Frugtniet said:

“This event highlights the fantastic translational research that is being carried out in Wales for the benefit of the patient. The emphasis on producing useful outputs, focused on the patient was a running theme throughout the two days. I am honoured to have been a part of the LSRNW and to have my work recognised through the award of the best PhD presentation prize.”.

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