Professor Fridrun Podczeck, of Sunderland University, has been elected to one of the world's most prestigious science bodies.
Her election to the Fellowship of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists is for her outstanding contribution to pharmaceutical sciences.
She is one of only a handful of UK scientists to receive such recognition for their research
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