Hi all,
I am currently in my final year at Keele University studying Chemistry and am very interested in doing a PhD when I graduate in Organic Chemistry somewhere. My final year research project is looking into NO donor drugs especially S-Nitrosthiol compounds and how we can synthesise these to be stable enough to be used in a cream to treat Raynauds Phenomenon. Forgive my lack of detail on this at the moment, I am literally just going into my 3rd year so just doing the pre-research for it. But very excited about it as you can probably tell. Anyway, I have done a few modules in the Bio-organic chemistry/medicinal area and I have really enjoyed them so would love to carry this on in my PhD. However if a PhD came along that really interested me in that wide field however my research paper wasn't anything to do with it would that matter?

And also I was wondering if anyone could give me any pointers about applying for PhD in the upcoming months? What will make me stand out for example. I have great enthusiasm for it and I know I would be able to get good references from the lecturers and staff at my university but is that enough?

Cheers for your help,

Ashleigh Ringrose