James Waddington wins LBMSDG award

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Congratulations James!

James Waddington, of the MRC Centre for Drug Safety Science, was recently awarded the ‘Most Valued Student Talk 2018’ by the London Biological Science Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (LBMSDG). James, a final year PhD student, was awarded the prize at the 50th LBMSDG Meeting in March 2019.

James joined the University of Liverpool in 2011 where he achieved his Master of Biological Science degree with honours in Microbiology. After several research projects, including investigating the interactions between the immune system and the HIV virus, James joined the CDSS in 2015 to begin his PhD. Here he turned his focus to how the immune system is recognising drugs and how this may lead to adverse events.

In December 2018 James was invited to talk at the 49th meeting, held at the Francis Crick Institute in London, where he presented his work on ‘The characterisation of the involvement of HLA peptides in drug hypersensitivity reactions’.