Deanery of Biomedical Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 1993 2002 2007 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2035

• 2 Not started
• 193 Active
• 1463 Finished

Projects per year

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  Vasopressin and the retina

  Ludwig, M. & Leng, G.

  MRC

  1/08/15 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

  • Anterior Olfactory Nucleus 100%
  • Neuron 57%
  • Olfactory Tract 14%
  • Amygdala 14%
  • Axon 14%

• Validation of rAAV-focused commercial opportunities

  Nolan, M.

  BBSRC

  17/07/15 → 30/04/17

  Project: Research

• Elucidating the role of the transcription factor Foxg1 in mouse eye development - insights into ocular coloma

  Fotaki, V.

  UK-based charities

  6/07/15 → 30/07/15

  Project: Research

• Investigating the role of calretinin in the regulation of neurodegeneration

  Gillingwater, T.

  UK-based charities

  6/07/15 → 30/08/15

  Project: Research

• Can tyrosine kinase inhibitors protect the ovary against chemotherapy-induced damage?

  Spears, N. & Anderson, R.

  Other

  1/07/15 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

• 11ß-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 inhibition as a novel treatment for peripheral arterial disease

  Hadoke, P.

  UK-based charities

  1/07/15 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

• Homeostatic maintenance and repair mechanisms of auditory cells: A Drosophilla model organ study

  Jarman, A.

  Other

  1/07/15 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

• Evaluating sex differences in the formalin model of peripheral inflammatory pain - a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Torsney, C.

  UK-based charities

  15/06/15 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• How does differential heparin sulphate sulphation instruct fibroblast growth factor signalling in the developing brain

  Pratt, T.

  BBSRC

  13/06/15 → 12/06/18

  Project: Research

  • Heparan Sulfate 100%
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 67%
  • Protein 60%
  • Mouse 55%
  • Sulfation 50%

• Effect of minocycline on the neuroinflammatory response after cerebral hypoperfusion and impact on white matter function (ARUK Scotland Network Centre Grant)

  Horsburgh, K.

  Other

  9/06/15 → 9/06/16

  Project: Research

• The differential regulation of sterol metabolism in neonatal and adult immunity against viral infections

  Ghazal, P.

  UK-based charities

  8/06/15 → 31/07/15

  Project: Research

• Benign Childhood Epilepsy Syndromes and LGI2

  Meijer, D. & Oren, I.

  1/06/15 → 1/06/17

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • Pediatric Epilepsy 100%
  • Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel 33%
  • Nervous System Function 33%
  • Neurogenesis 33%
  • Nervous System 33%

• How do chemothereputic drugs damage human ovary

  Lopes, F.

  UK-based charities

  1/06/15 → 31/08/15

  Project: Research

• Time Course of damage induced to the testis after exposure to the chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and doxorubicin

  Spears, N.

  UK-based charities

  1/06/15 → 30/09/15

  Project: Research

• Testing a hypothesis about a problem in human kidney engineering

  Davies, J.

  UK-based charities

  25/05/15 → 30/06/15

  Project: Research

• Pathogenesis of neuromuscular synaptic dysfunction and transmission failure in organophosphate toxicity

  Ribchester, R.

  MRC

  1/05/15 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

  • Brain 100%
  • Axon 100%
  • Alzheimer's Disease 100%
  • Wallerian Degeneration 100%
  • Ictal 72%

• Differential synaptic mRNA translation through ERK and mTOR signalling pathways

  Osterweil, E.

  UK-based charities

  1/05/15 → 28/02/17

  Project: Research

• IFITM dependent control of retroviral infection in vivo

  Sloan, R.

  UK-based charities

  1/05/15 → 30/06/17

  Project: Research

• Understanding and Maximising the Therapeutic Time Window in Mouse Models of SMA

  Murray, L.

  Other

  1/05/15 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• A platform for high throughput, cell type-restricted in vivo knockdown of pre- orpostsynaptic gene expression

  Nolan, M.

  BBSRC

  1/05/15 → 30/09/18

  Project: Research

  • Episodic-Like Memory 100%
  • Entorhinal Cortex 100%
  • Episodic Memory 22%
  • Hippocampus 22%
  • Reelin 11%

• Functional dissection of neuronal circuits at single cell resolution in freely moving C. elegans worms using optogenetics and unnatural amino acids

  Greiss, S.

  UK-based charities

  8/04/15 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• Optimising translational capacity of melatonin administration for chemotherapy induced neuropathic pain

  Torsney, C.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/15 → 30/12/16

  Project: Research

• A novel technique to monitor local protein synthesis in vivo in rodent models of neuropsychiatric diseases

  Gkogkas, C.

  UK-based charities

  15/03/15 → 14/03/16

  Project: Research

• The role of genome composition and structure of mammalian RNA viruses on their host interactions, pathogenesis and transmission

  Simmonds, P.

  UK-based charities

  9/03/15 → 8/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Evolution 100%
  • Lung 100%
  • Influenza 100%
  • Immune Response 100%
  • Enterovirus 100%

• Biological Architecture Lab

  Nakayama, N., Davies, J., Marles-Wright, J., McLean, R. & Mastropaolo, E.

  1/03/15 → 31/03/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Understanding the role of altered ubiquitin homeostasis in motor neuron diseases

  Gillingwater, T. & Groen, E.

  1/03/15 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy 100%
  • Motor Neuron 60%
  • Protein 58%
  • UBA1 40%
  • Survival Motor Neuron Protein 31%

• Linking the cellular pathophysiology and cognitive neuropsychology of memory interference in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

  Oren, I.

  Other

  26/02/15 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• Building novel culture systems to improve repair after tendon rupture

  Paxton, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/02/15 → 31/01/16

  Project: Research

• An automated in vivo screening platform for the UK zebrafish research community

  Becker, C., Lyons, D. & Patton (don't use), E.

  BBSRC

  15/01/15 → 14/01/16

  Project: Research

• Neuroimmunology of stroke

  McColl, B., Alfieri, A. & McCulloch, L.

  9/01/15 → 30/04/15

  Project: MVM - (non-funded) undergraduate research project

  • B Cell 100%
  • Apoplexy 100%
  • Cerebrovascular Accident 100%
  • Cell Population 50%
  • Myeloid 50%

• Embryonic stem cells as tools to study forebrain development

  Mason, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/15 → 31/08/15

  Project: Research

• Identifying therapeutic targets and causes of dopaminergic neuronal degenerationusing C. elegans high-throughput genetic approaches

  Doitsidou, M.

  EU other

  1/01/15 → 30/09/17

  Project: Research

• In vivo studies of microglia-glioma interactions

  Sieger, D.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/15 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Microglia 100%
  • Neuron 50%
  • Zebra Fish 50%
  • Brain 44%
  • Macrophage 27%

• Developing a sensitive episodic memory

  Harris, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/01/15 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• Determination of the molecular mechanism underlying presynaptic dysfunction in Huntington¿¿s Disease

  Cousin, M. & Smillie, K.

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/01/15 → 30/06/17

  Project: Research

• Targeting ERK and mTOR for the treatment of fragile X syndrome

  Osterweil, E.

  MRC

  1/12/14 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research

  • Protein Homeostasis 100%
  • Spectrum 100%
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder 100%
  • Fragile X Syndrome 100%
  • Protein 100%

• Identifying and protecting vulnerable motor neurons in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

  Gillingwater, T. & Becker, C.

  UK-based charities

  24/11/14 → 23/11/16

  Project: Research

  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy 100%
  • Motor Neuron 58%
  • Bioenergy 50%
  • Zebra Fish 50%
  • Aptitude 50%

• In vivo functional imaging of long-lasting signalling in sensory neural circuits of C.elegans

  Busch, E.

  UK-based charities

  15/11/14 → 31/12/15

  Project: Research

• Motor neuron regeneration in larval zebrafish

  Becker, C.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  15/11/14 → 14/11/17

  Project: Research

  • Spinal Cord Regeneration 100%
  • Spinal Cord 100%
  • Regeneration 80%
  • Zebra Fish 60%
  • Wnt Signaling Pathway 50%

• SynthSys-Mammalian: Edinburgh Mammalian Synthetic Biology Research Centre

  Davies, J.

  BBSRC

  14/11/14 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Protein 100%
  • Gene Expression 66%
  • Time 52%
  • Mouse 44%
  • DNA 42%

• Function and regeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the brain of zebrafish

  Becker, C., Armstrong, D. & Becker, T.

  BBSRC

  1/11/14 → 31/10/17

  Project: Research

  • Neuron 100%
  • Artificial Cell 100%
  • Flavonoid 100%
  • Oxidative Stress 100%
  • Antioxidant 100%

• C90RF72 hexanucleotide repeat dsRNA and ADAR mutant neurodegenerations with aberrant immune induction

  Pennetta, G.

  UK-based charities

  1/11/14 → 30/04/15

  Project: Research

• Function and regeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the brain of zebrafish

  Lyons, D., Becker, C. & Patton, E.

  Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations

  1/11/14 → 31/10/17

  Project: Research

• PAXBRAIN: Control of gene expression in developing diencephalon by the transcription factor pax6

  Price, D.

  EU government bodies

  15/10/14 → 31/08/17

  Project: Research

• "Kisspeptin neurones; linking reproduction with behavior"

  Ludwig, M.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/14 → 31/03/16

  Project: Research

• Probabilistic computation of location in the rodent and human hippocampus

  Nolan, M.

  EU other

  1/10/14 → 30/09/18

  Project: Research

  • Stellate Cell 100%
  • Path Integration 100%
  • Entorhinal Cortex 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 50%
  • Neuron 50%

• Targeting the mGluR5-FMRP signaling pathway for the treatment of TSC

  Thomson, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/14 → 30/09/17

  Project: Research

• The contribution of sharp-wave-ripples to cortical consol

  Genzel, L.

  EU other

  1/10/14 → 31/01/17

  Project: Research

• Does maternally derived `brain derived neurotrophic factor¿¿ (BDNF) act as a mediator ofdevelopmental programming?

  Harris, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/14 → 30/11/17

  Project: Research

• Understanding the Pathogenesis of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

  Murray, L.

  Non-EU-based charities

  1/10/14 → 31/10/15

  Project: Research