The success of the Duchen lab in obtaining funding both for the equipment and personnel working closely with the CfMR is summarised on the Divisional News blog. The new equipment will help with setting up detailed analyses of cellular respiratory rates with a Seahorse 96FX machine, while the new all-round fluorescent/luminescent Clariostar with controlled O2…
The CfMR is happy to announce that two of its steering members have been awarded two grants: Firstly, the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) is funding Michael Duchen, Gyorgy Szabadkai and Angus Bain for the development of novel approaches in the study of redox metabolism. Secondly, the Michael J. Fox foundation will be funding…
Gyorgy Szabadkai (UCL Department of Cell and Developmental Biology) together with Robert Stein (UCLH, UCL Cancer Institute) and Mariia Yuneva (Francis Crick Institute) and Kevin Bryson (UCL Computer Sciences) as CoI, has received a Wellcome Trust Pathfinder Award to develop a mitochondrial gene expression based biomarker to inform on chemosensitivity of luminal breast tumours. The grant will…
Professors Michael Duchen and Kenneth Smith have been awarded a grant from the MS society. The grant of £214,000 provides funding for 3 years to ‘explore mitochondrial dysfunction and protection in early neuroinflammatory disease by in vivo confocal imaging’.
The MRC’s Dr Josef Kittler is one of ten UCL researchers that have received European Research Council (ERC) Starting Investigator grants with a total value of more than £12.4 million. The number of grants awarded to UCL under this scheme doubled this year compared to 2010. The researchers were chosen from among a record 4,080…
Warmest congratulations to Miss Talia Atkin of the UCL Research Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology (NPP), who struck Gold, and a prize of £3,000, at a competition in the House of Commons for the excellence of her scientific research. Talia presented her biological research to more than one hundred politicians and a panel of…
Prof Michael Duchen has been awarded a project grant from the Parkinson’s Disease Society to study ‘interactions between mitochondrial biogenesis and complex I inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons’ Disease’ This will provide funding for Dr Juan Carlos Corona to work with Prof Duchen for two years. Parkinson’s UK website
Michelangelo Campanella, Lecturer at the Royal Veterinary College and member of CfMR, wins funding through BBSRC New Investigator award. The award is entitled: “Role of the mitochondrial Translocator Protein (mTSPO) in cell homeostasis: a molecular pathway in signalling and self-conservation mechanisms”. Links: Dr Campanella
Funding for a Mitochondrial Symposium has been awarded to Dr Takehiro Yasukawa by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), London. Together with several CfMR members (Prof. Sir Salvador Moncada, Prof. Michael Duchen, Prof. Mervyn Singer, Dr Gyorgy Szabadkai and Dr Josef Kittler) and Japanese scientists, Dr Takehiro Yasukawa, BBSRC David Phillips Fellow…
Professors Michael Duchen and Francesco Muntoni have been awarded grants to study the cellular mechanisms of a group of muscle diseases called the central core myopathies with a project grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) of $375,000 and a contribution of £69,864 from the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign (MDC) to supplement and extend a BBSRC…