Postdoctoral Research Assistant Yiyan Zheng, who works in Professor Ahmed's Ovarian Cancer Cell Laboratory, has one one of three prizes at the EMBO International Conference on Microtubules.
This award is for Yiyan’s work on FER kinase as a potential therapeutic target in ovarian cancer to enhance the efficacy of the chemotherapeutic drug taxol on microtubules. Yiyan won this prize in competition with more than 270 scientists.
The prize has special significance as the conference coincided with the 50th anniversary for the discovery of tubulin, the building block of microtubules.
Yiyan’s work has been funded by Target Ovarian Cancer (http://www.targetovariancancer.org.uk).
