Lauren Webster is the WCAIR Scientific and Pedagogy Lead at the University of Dundee. The Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) is a hub for neglected tropical disease drug discovery at the University of Dundee and was launched in 2017. WCAIR focuses activities in the three areas research, training, and public engagement. Lauren is a medicinal chemist by training with a strong interest in neglected diseases. One of her former projects focused on target validation studies of such diseases, with greater emphasis on the disease areas Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis.