Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome Early Career Fellowship awarded to Dr Sara Pijuan Galito

We are delighted to announce that Dr Sara Pijuan Galitó has just been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome Early Career Fellowship to work with the sponsorship of Morgan Alexander (Pharmacy) and Chris Denning (Medicine).  We believe that this is the first such award to the University of Nottingham.  Sara will join us from the University of Uppsala where she recently completed her PhD in Novel Culture Strategies and Signal Transduction Pathways of Pluripotent Stem Cells.  The Sir Henry Wellcome scheme encourages applicants to work with the most appropriate collaborators worldwide, and Sara has chosen to spend time in the labs of Joshua Knowles (Stanford) and Bob Langer (MIT), as well as Cathy Merry and Neil Oldham (Nottingham) and Christine Mummery (University of Leiden).  She will be exploring the combination of novel polymers with a human serum derived protein, inter-alpha-inhibitor, for the generation and production of pluripotent stem cells.