Congratulations to Miss Cissy Yong (Urology Academic Clinical Fellow) who has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship (in conjunction with The Urology Foundation) to spend 3 months in the laboratory of Professor Ralph DeBerardinis at University of Texas Southwestern. Cissy, who is supervised by Mr Grant Stewart (University Lecturer in Urological Surgery), will learn various novel techniques including human C13-glucose infusion to evaluate dynamic metabolism in patients with kidney cancer.

Cissy will return to the UK to start her PhD for which she has recently obtained a Clinical Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. Miss Yong, will be supported in her PhD by co-supervisor Dr Christian Frezza (MRC Cancer Unit) and other members of the Cambridge Renal Cancer collaborative (CamRenCan), part of the Urological Malignancies Programme of the CRUK Cambridge Centre.