A MIRFIELD student is involved in pioneering research into sickle cell anaemia.
Engineer Robin Kumar will present his ground-breaking research in Austria this month at the International Conference in Biomedical Engineering in Innsbruck.
The disorder affects the red blood cells which contain haemoglobin, which carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body.
An estimated 6,000 adults and children have the condition in Britain.
Mr Kumar, 27, a PhD student in chemical engineering at Imperial College, London, has developed a model which measures the oxygen content of new red blood cells within human bone marrow where they are made.
He said there had been little research into how bone marrow was affected by disease.
"The model predicts how the bone marrow will function under diseased conditions," he said.
Born in India, Robin and his mother, father and three sisters moved to Mirfield in 1984.
He was educated in Battyeford and then at the former Kaye's College in Huddersfield.
