RESEARCH scientists at Salisbury District Hospital have been awarded £260,000 for pioneering work on chronic myeloid leu-kaemia.

The cash boost comes just two months after the UK's leading leu-kaemia scientist, Profes-sor Nick Cross, and his team moved from Ham-mersmith Hospital in London to the Wessex Regional Genetic Labor-atory in Salisbury District Hospital.

Prof Cross, who is also Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Southampton, has been appointed director of the genetic laboratories in Salisbury. He and his team will use the money to help studies that are shedding light on the causes of the potentially fatal chronic myeloid leukaemia and to help improve treatment.