Congratulations to Rakesh Lad, one of our GSK employees on the GSK/University of Strathclyde PhD programme, who was awarded a poster prize at the “Discovery Toxicology - Strategies for Success in Discovery and Development Meeting” which was held at Alderly Park Conference Centre.

Safety/toxicity remains a challenge in drug discovery and development. Strategies to improve success focus on asking the right questions at the right time around Target, Chemistry and Patient with an emphasis on translation of data to the clinic.  This one day meeting brought together experts in each of these areas to discuss current thinking on enhancing probability of success illustrated by case studies.

Rakesh’s poster was entitled: The application and utility of the brain slice method for studying drug distribution in the CNS to gain a mechanistic understanding of CNS transporter activity.

Rakesh is supervised by Professor Simon MacKay (Strathclyde, SIPBS) and Dr Kunal Taskar (GSK).