Worm researcher from Llanelli wins £110,000 scholarship to study how medicines pollute our rivers

Swansea scientist is among first winners of prestigious £100k scholarship

A Swansea University student has secured a major new scholarship worth more than £100,000 to further his studies. Ben Williams is one of four inaugural winners of the Sir David Jack PhD Scholarship run by the British Pharmacological Society. The scholarship is the first of 40 PhD projects supported over the next decade which aim to foster the next generation of pharmacologists and therapeutic innovators. It has been made possible by a generous d…

Worm researcher from Llanelli wins £110,000 scholarship to study how medicines pollute our rivers

A Llanelli student has won a scholarship worth more than £110,000 to fund his PhD at Swansea University — and the research he’ll be doing is more surprising than you might expect. Ben Williams will spend the next few years studying what happens to worms when medicines get into rivers and waterways. It’s a growing environmental concern: when people take medication, traces of those drugs pass through the body and into the water system, where they …