The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7432 p760
23/30 December 2006

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Welsh school will jointly host burns research centre

The UK's first major centre for burns research is to be hosted by the Welsh School of Pharmacy, in partnership with the schools of medicine and dentistry at Cardiff University and Morriston Hospital Swansea.

The centre will focus on research aimed at improving the treatment and long-term support for survivors of burns, and addressing issues such as infection control and immunology, inflammation following major burns and improved understanding of scar formation. The pharmacy school will contribute expertise in biomaterial design and infection control.

Steven Denyer, head of the Welsh School of Pharmacy, commented: “This prestigious award is recognition of the strong interdisciplinary relationships which have become established in South Wales.”

The centre — the Healing Foundation UK Centre for Burns Research — will be based within Cardiff University’s school of medicine and at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery at Morriston Hospital Swansea.