From left: Sophie Cook, Irisha Inamke, Amy O’Shannessy and Imogen Skelton
The Biomedical Science Honours Symposium was held on 26 October 2022. The symposium was a day of research presentations by students in the Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) (BBiomedSc Hon) programme. It is intended to acknowledge the efforts and success of students in this research-led postgraduate degree. Twenty-seven students presented, and the prize winners for best presentations were Sophie Cook, Irisha Inamke, Amy O’Shannessy and Imogen Skelton.
Professor Warwick Bagg, Deputy Dean FMHS and Professor Paul Donaldson, Head of School of Medical Sciences attended the prizegiving and addressed the students.
Below are the prize winners:
Sophie Cook, from The Liggins Institute. Her presentation was titled ‘Developing a novel inhibitor of mouse growth hormone’. She is supervised by Associate Professor Jo Perry, and co-supervised by Dr Yue Wang.
Irisha Inamke, from the Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology. Her presentation was titled ‘Assessing the effects of how melanoma cells influence intercellular junctional molecules of human brain endothelial barriers’. She is supervised by Dr Scott Graham, and co-supervised by Dr Catherine Angel and Dr Akshata Anchan.
Amy O’Shannessy, from the Department of Pharmacology. Her presentation was titled ‘Characterising the paradoxical activation of Lck by dasatinib‘. She is supervised by Associate Professor Jack Flanagan, and co-supervised by Professor Peter Shepherd.
Imogen Skelton, from the Department of Pharmacology. Her presentation was titled ‘Elucidating the radiation-induced changes in Glioblastoma cell migration’. She is supervised by Dr Thomas Park, and co-supervised by Dr Cho-Rong Hong and Professor Mike Dragunow.
