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MPharm Student awarded Welcome Trust Vacation Scholarship

Congratulations to MPharm Year 3 student, Prijay Bakrania, who has been awarded a Vacation Scholarship entitled ‘Does the expression of Nrf2 change with age in humans?’ The project, under the supervision of STRAND member Dr Greg Scutt, examines Nrf2 an important… Continue Reading →

Discovering New Antibiotics

Just weeks after Prime Minister David Cameron called for a worldwide cut in the unnecessary use of antibiotics and rewards for drug companies which develop new medicines to fight drug-resistant superbugs, STRAND scientists have been studying soil bacteria which, they… Continue Reading →

Student work published in Autonomic Neuroscience

STRAND Researchers have published a recent paper in Autonomic Neuroscience, with some of  the work being done by BSc Pharamceutical Science students. The paper entitled “Acute paraquat exposure impairs colonic motility by selectively attenuating nitrergic signalling in the mouse” examined… Continue Reading →

STRAND Members Outreach Work

STRAND Members Dr Angela Sheerin & Dr Claire Marriott, along with PABS colleagues Dr Anna Guildford & Ms Bertie Berterelli, have been doing some outstanding outreach work. The full story can be seen below: A* Scientist outreach work  

Top review award for article from STRAND Member

The Lancet Infectious Diseases article was selected for the Elsevier Atlas award, given to a single article every month from the thousands of papers published across Elsevier’s 1,800 journals. The award recognises research with the potential to impact people’s lives… Continue Reading →

STRAND hosting International Researchers

STRAND is delighted to be hosting a series of talks, at 3pm on Wednesday 25th November in Watts House, by researchers from the Institute of Neuroscience a Physiology, at The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. The talks will be given by Prof…. Continue Reading →

Dr Annamaria Gal to talk at Brighton and Sussex Cancer Network

STRAND researcher Dr Annamaria Gal is giving a talk to the Brighton and Sussex Cancer Network on Thursday 26th November.  The seminar, entitled “Plasticity and recruitent of tumour associated macrophages in murine metastatic melanoma” will run from 4-6pm in the Medical… Continue Reading →

New wound dressing to detect infection?

The STRAND microbiology research team, led by Dr Brian Jones, have played a key role in developing a new “intelligent” wound dressing that responds to infection. Dr Jones and his team (from Univeristy of Brighton, Queen Victoria Hospital, and the Blond McIndoe Research Foundation)… Continue Reading →

STRAND Journal Club with Dr Charley Chatterjee

This Wednesday sees the 5th instalment of the STRAND Journal Club where Dr Chatterjee will be taking the group through a paper from researchers at the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland, as well as clinicians at the Murdoch Children’s Research… Continue Reading →

STRAND Journal Club with Prof. Adrian Bone

Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology Adrian Bone will be leading the next STRAND Journal Club on Wednesday 11th November. Prof Bone will be discussing a recent paper looking at gene expression and insulin secretion in pseudoislet cells, published last month… Continue Reading →

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