We are delighted to announce that Emma Williams was awarded Best Talk Prize at the 10th International PhD Student Cancer Conference (IPSCC). This is an annual event organised by students for students and this year it was held in Cambridge from 22 – 24 June.

Emma, a PhD student in the Leukaemia Biology group led by Dr Tim Somervaille, presented her work on “Pharmacologic inhibition of LSD1 selectively targets pathologic megakaryocyte expansion in myeloproliferative neoplasms” and delegates voted it their favourite talk. The talk prize was sponsored by the European Association for Cancer Research.   

The conference was attended by over 90 students from CRUK Institutes and Cancer Research Institutes from the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Italy, with 24 student talks packed in over the three days. The students also enjoyed keynote talks from the eminent Professor Sirs Mike Stratton and Tim Hunt.

Last year the IPSCC was hosted here in Manchester. Emma was co-chair of the organising committee and the event was a great success.