Congratulations to MPharm Year 3 student, Prijay Bakrania, who has been awarded a Vacation Scholarship entitled ‘Does the expression of Nrf2 change with age in humans?’.

Professor Colin Smith and Dr Giselda Bucca are working on a South Korean-led study that could lead to the development of new antibiotics.

Read more about this on the University of Brighton news and see their recent paper in Nature Communications.

The BSc Pharmacological Sciences students worked for a week on a project to understand the effects of paraquat on the GI tract. This has now been published: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26853977#

Well done to Lamia Hachoumi who has been offered a place at the highly competitive 33rd Microelectrode Techniques for Cell Physiology Workshop in August.