# University of the Free State’s postdoctoral researcher, doctor Abdul Rashid Issahaku, has received the Early Career Researcher Best Poster Award at the prestigious Fragment-Based Lead Discovery Conference in the UK. The conference is one of the foremost international forums for advancing fragment-based approaches to drug discovery. Issahaku’s award-winning research focuses on using computational and structure-guided approaches to identify promising lead compounds from natural products. He says the broader impact of his work lies in accelerating the discovery of safe and effective medicines from natural sources.
UFS postdoctoral researcher wins a prestigious award in the UK