Dr. Thet Lin awarded Hamblin prize

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Dr Thet Thet Lin, a scientist working in the Cardiff School

of Medicine, has been awarded the Hamblin Prize in

recognition of her innovative research into chronic

lymphocytic leukaemia.

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" A member of the University's Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

(CLL) Research Group, Dr Thet Lin's research, published in

the journal Blood and funded by Leukaemia & Lymphoma

Research, examined structures at the end of chromosomes,

known as telomeres.

Telomeres are known to protect human DNA and help to prevent

genetic mutations that lead to cancer. By examining

telomeres Dr Thet Lin found that patients with short

telomeres were much more likely to show evidence of

increased genetic mutations at the end of the chromosomes.

Critically, she found that these mutations were caused by

chromosome ends fusing together – the first time scientists

have been able to demonstrate that fusing telomeres is

linked to the progression of a human cancer. "

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Cardiff University

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/articles/beating-blood-cancers-6587.html