A PhD student and a member of The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) has won the Roscoe Medal.
Thao Nguyen, who is currently finishing her PhD thesis at the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, won the Roscoe Medal for a poster entitled 'Porphyrin-DNA as Scaffold for Nanoarchitecture and Nanotherapy'.
It was judged the best chemistry presentation.
The research focused on the use of DNA as an architecture for porphyrin chromophore arrays (natural molecules found in heme or chlorophyll) for applications in future nanochips and potentially in photodynamic therapy for cancer treatment.
The results indicate that DNA has great potential for the transformation from being a building block of life to being a building block for nanotechnology.
Thao Nguyen's poster also won her the EPSRC Award for Young Scientists at the UK Nano and Emerging Technologies Forum last year, hosted by the NanoKTN and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).
Being a NanoKTN member and winning the EPSRC Award contributed towards her success at SET for Britain and has had a great impact on promoting her research.
The award was presented by representatives of RSC and Agchemaccess at the SET for Britain event, held at the House of Commons.
SET for Britain aims to encourage, support and promote Britain's early stage and early career research scientists, engineers and technologists to ensure continued progress in the development of UK research and development and ultimately the future of UK business.
The SET for Britain Awards give early career scientists the opportunity to communicate current state-of-the-art science to MPs and scientific peers.
