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| |  Dr Wendy Ingram
Release Date: 19th January 2006
A Swansea doctor has won a prestigious research award from the UK’s leading blood cancer charity, Leukaemia Research, to help blood cancer patients most at risk from relapse.
A Clinical Research Training Fellowship has been awarded to Dr Wendy Ingram which will allow her to play a part in helping those most at risk of relapse from acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a blood cancer which affects around 2,000 people in the UK each year.
Born in Swansea, Dr Ingram is part of a team based at King’s College in London. The study aims to test how stimulating the body’s immune system can aid the destruction of leukaemia cells and reduce the chance of the disease recurring.
"While success rates of chemotherapy and other treatment are improving, the chances of survival for many people, particularly those over 55 are still relatively poor,” says Dr Ingram. "Hopefully our work will develop a way to accelerate the body’s natural disease-fighting response and lead to successful trials in patients."
The aim of the Clinical Research Training Fellowship is to allow young talented doctors to combine specialist training in medicine with vital research. Leukaemia Research has today announced that it is committing over £130,000 to Dr Ingram’s work.
"After working at King’s College Hospital for five years now, I have developed a great professional interest in the development of innovative treatments for blood cancers – thanks to this award I can continue my career in this area and hopefully play a part in improving treatment success."
Dr Ingram, who has recently completed a Specialist Registrar Programme in Haematology, attended Morriston Comprehensive School, before she began her studies at the Royal London School of Medicine.
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