Aleksandra Adamska in Singapore.

Having one of our talented PhD students share their research with the international research community is amazing in itself but Aleksandra Adamska recently took it up a notch, bringing home the Best Oral Scientific Presentation Award from an international pharmacology conference in Singapore.

Aleksandra took to the stage at the ‘International Conference on Pharmacology: Advances in Translational Sciences and Drug Discovery’ to present on cancer research she is undertaking with her Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) supervisor, Professor Marco Falasca.

A pharmaceutical biotechnology graduate from Wroclaw University in Poland Aleksandra is in her fourth year and close to completing her PhD with CHIRI. She is researching potential new targets to improve treatments for pancreatic cancer, which was the subject of her award-winning presentation.

Marco is thrilled with Aleksandra’s achievement. “I am so proud of Aleksandra’s award and her contribution to our team and its research in general,” Marco said.

“To be able to stand up and deliver an award-winning presentation at an international conference, with many good and internationally renowned speakers from the field of pharmacology and translational science in cancer and beyond, just shows you the quality of our students and the research they are undertaking at CHIRI.”

The conference featured two days of plenary and invited lectures, short talks by young scientists and students, and poster sessions – all focused on advances in translational sciences and drug discovery. Scientists, clinicians, students and trainees from around the world, and with diverse areas of research expertise, attended to share and exchange scientific findings and ideas, and build new collaboration and projects, in the field of pharmacology.