Hugh Wright is a trainee Plastic Surgeon, currently studying for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Oncology at the University of Oxford. His project- "Investigation of the molecular effects of cooling human burns"- aims to investigate how cooling of a burn reduces the burn's severity and improves outcome for the patient. At present, there is no complete explanation as to the beneficial mechanism of cooling, and understanding this process would yield huge potential benefit for many of the 250,000 people who sustain burns each year in the UK alone, and to the far greater number of burns victims in the Developing World.