Gasiunaite received the award at Pharmacology 2015, the 's conference, held in London last December. More than 1,000 scientists from around the world attend this annual meeting each year.
Gasiunaite’s poster was titled ‘Galanin receptor dimerisation investigated by the BRET technique’. The poster presented data showing the cellular interaction between subtypes of galanin receptor, which are important in pain processing. Gasiunaite’s PhD is supervised by Professors David Wynick and Eamonn Kelly.