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2019 Research Grant Award £84,505.37 for years 1-3 only of a 42 month PhD starting October 2020 at the School of Pharmacy, UEA. Grant Applicants: Dr Andrew Beekman One of the hallmarks of cancer is its ability to evade the immune system. Cancer cells can over-produce proteins which turn off
2019 Research Grant Award £89,349 for a 36 month PhD starting 1 October 2020 at School of Chemistry, UEA. Grant applicant: Dr G Richard Stephenson Cancer is normally prevented inside healthy human cells by the presence of an important family of proteins known as Tumour Suppressor Proteins (TSPs). In previous
2019 Research Grant Award £93,294 for a 24 month project starting April 2020 at Norwich Medical School, UEA. Grant applicant: Prof Colin Cooper Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Across North America and Europe 500,000 cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed annually. In the UK, we lose
2019 Research Grant Award £27,293 for a 36 month project starting 1 January 2020 at Norwich Medical School, UEA. Grant applicant: Dr Yongping Bao Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a core technique used in molecular biology to analyse genetic material from living cells. It has a multitude of applications in
2018 Research Grant Award Funding requested: £95,300 | Funding awarded: £94,300 for a 36 month PhD to start September 2019 at Norwich Medical School, UEA. Grant Applicants: Dr Stephen Robinson Dr Lindsay Hall (QIB) (co-applicant) Professor Cathie Martin (JIC) (co-applicant) Professor Dylan Edwards (QIB) (co-applicant) Breast cancer affects 1 in
2018 Research Grant Award £46,463 for a 9 month project to start April 2019 at Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park. Grant Applicants: Professor Nathalie Juge Arjan Narbad (co-applicant) Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer and colon cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum
2018 Research Grant Award £80,151 for a 36 month PhD project to start April 2019 at Norwich Medical School, Bob Champion Research and Education Building, UEA. Grant Applicants: Dr Stuart Rushworth Professor Kristian Bowles (co-applicant) Leukaemia is a cancer characterised by the accumulation of abnormal blood cells in the bone
2018 Research Grant Award Funding requested: £50,733.02 | Funding awarded: £46,733.02 for an 18 month project to start 1 March 2019 at the School of Health Sciences, UEA. Grant Applicants: Dr Sarah Hanson Dr Wendy Hardeman (co-applicant) Professor Andy Jones (co-applicant) Dr Charlotte Salter(co-applicant) Cancer, like many other health problems
2017 Research Grant Award £80,977 for a 36 month PhD project to start 1 Oct 2018 at Norwich Medical School, Bob Champion Research and Education Building, UEA. Grant Applicants: Dr Dan Brewer Professor Colin Cooper Cancer is not a disease but a collection of diseases in different tissues. Even within
2017 Research Grant Award £125,526 for a 48 month PhD project to start 1 Jan 2018 at Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park. Grant Applicants: Dr Lindsay Hall Dr Stephen Robinson Breast cancer (BC) is a common disease, which can be deadly. For many years, we have known that what
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