Tahir Shah, third year student

“I’m doing my undergraduate project on two genes linked to cancerous brain tumours in adults.

"I wanted to make a difference and the work here is amazing. It’s all about hygiene. I change my gloves every few minutes. You have to avoid getting anything on the surfaces, on the handles, or the tip of the pipette that could contaminate the results. The first time I did this, the cells under the microscope were cloudy because they were contaminated. It was a hard lesson.

"No-one’s done this before. What I hope to achieve is to find a gene that we can target with a drug and slow down its progression. I have a relation who passed away with a brain tumour and when you see that; well, that’s why I’m here.”

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