Richard Damerau from Barts and the London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry has won the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Hatton Award (Junior category) for research in oral cancer. He looked at the role of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), which reduces apoptosis (programmed cell death) in chemotherapy-treated oral neoplastic cells thereby possibly promoting chemotherapy resistance.