Prize Winning Intern

Afton Turner, a 3rd year Biomedical Science student, completed an undergraduate internship and won the prize for the best poster; Afton presented her work at the Undergraduate Research Conference in Warwick.

A record amount of undergraduate research projects have been created by students at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Fifty research projects were undertaken by student interns on UCLan’s highly popular Undergraduate Research Internship Scheme. The students, who were drawn from 14 Schools across the University, spent up to 10 weeks working on a wide variety of academic projects which covered the arts, sciences, health and business. At the recent academic exhibition, where all the researchers enthused about their experiences, Afton Turner was named the winner of the best poster.

The 21-year-old final year Biomedical Sciences student, from Worcestershire, was chosen for her research into using yeast as an in vitro screening tool to identify compounds which have potential applications in cancer therapy. The project leaders were Carole Rolph, Tim Snape and Clare Lawrence from the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences.