A SCIENTIST from Oswaldtwistle has started a research blog at an institute in Sweden which hosts the Nobel Prizes.

Ben Libberton, 30, is a microbiologist at the Karolinska Institutet, and has recently started at blog at the prestigious site.

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The postdoc at the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center has said he feels he has come a long way from his upbringing in Oswaldtwistle.

Mr Libberton said:”I think it’s amazing to be here and I’m very happy to be researching a bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus.

“The field doesn’t look like its popular enough for me to win a Nobel Prize, but of course it would be very very nice to win one.”

In his first article on the Karolinska Institutet Reacher and blogger site he also paid tribute to the worlds biggest pear drop which can be found in Oswaldtwistle.

He had been working in Sweden at the site for three and a half years,before becoming a blogger recently to express his research.

The Blackburn Rovers supporter went to school at St Christophers CE High School in Accrington before going to Clitheroe Sixth Form.

He then went to university in Leeds to study microbiology, before going on to be a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool, when he received a job offer in Sweden.

However it is his work with diseases which he takes the most pride in.

He said: “It’s really great working at somewhere like this which has Nobel Lecturers coming in every year. We always get to see them do their talk, its’ really inspirational.

“My main research has been about hospital acquired infections, and it’s a nice challenge to try to write and write about it in an engaging way.”

Mr Liberton is also the public information officer for the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center.

He still comes back to Oswaldtwistle, where he was raised with brothers Sam and Josh when he’s back in England, with his parents Andrew and Elizabeth Libberton still living there He said:”It’s very different to living in Oswaldtwistle. I lived there my whole life before going to university and I always go back there, my parents still live there.

“It’s a big change living in a different city, I’ve lived in Leeds and Liverpool before, but Stockholm is something else.”