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Two researchers in white coats and purple gloves working together in a laboratory setting with equipment and monitors.
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Hemani wears a blue jumpsuit and is attached to a skydive instructor wearing a parachute. They sail through the sky at 12,000 feet and there are patchwork green fields far below them and blue sky and clouds above them.

Scar Free Trustee’s skydive lands thousands for research

Scar Free Trustee and Ambassador Dr Hemani Modasia-Shah completed a fundraising skydive, shortly after supporting the first ever Scar Free Foundation Community Event. Image credit: Go Skydive

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Richard, Char and Hemani stand in a line with a screen between Hemani and Charlotte. Hemani wears a yellow and cream shirt and trouser outfit, Charlotte wears a black top and trousers, and Richard wears beige trousers, a pink shirt, and a blazer. The screen has a red display and reads 'The Scar Free Foundation' in white. The three stand in a brightly lit room. From the left: Lieutenant General Richard Nugee, Charlotte Coates (Head of Research at The Scar Free Foundation), Hemani Modasia-Shah (a GP, and Scar Free Foundation Trustee and Ambassador)

Thank you for joining our first ever Scar Free Foundation Community Event!

The Scar Free Foundation's first ever Community Event on keloid scarring brought together clinicians and those with lived experience for an inclusive, informal community evening.

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Professor Janet Lord wears a black top and grey cardigan as she sits at a desk covered in research equipment. Janet smiles at the camera.

New research offers insight into how laser treatment improves burn scars 

Although laser therapy is widely used to help ease scar symptoms, why and how it reportedly helps wasn't understood

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Ambassador and Trustee Hemani wears a blue dress and smiles at the camera. In the centre is Ambassador Dan, who sits and smiles as he reads a children's book. Their images are overlaid on an image of Lawrence, a Swansea University Scar Free researcher, who works at a microscope in a lab.

New Scar Free Lottery will support trailblazing research

You could win up to £25,000 if you have a flutter on the Foundation to support cutting-edge research.

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