Life Science Research Network Wales – Round 2 Studentships
The Life Science Research Network Wales aims to support world class science within Wales and develop new therapeutic treatments in areas of unmet medical need. The Network brings together academics at Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities and aims to further develop long term research capacity within the Life Sciences.
This £15M initiative is part funded by a £7.3M award from the Welsh Government’s Ser Cymru program and aims to promote collaboration with industry partners, the NHS and other international Universities.
In March 2014 the Network launched the 2nd Studentship round. Last month, some of the funded studentships awarded included (PI and project title):
Prof Hoffmann, Increasing the selectivity and potency of a novel anthelmintic chemical entity.
Dr Westwell, Radiosynthesis of 18 F-labelled pro-nucleotides (ProTides) for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging.
Dr Mosely, Pharmaceutical evaluation of novel tiglianes as modulators of dermal fibroblast-myofibroblast differentiation, scar formation and fibrosis; and elucidation of their underlying mechanisms of action.
Prof Mahenthiralingam, Development of vietnamycin: a novel Burkholderia antibiotic targeting mupirocin resistant methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Prof Mur, Identifying new antimicrobial drugs in microbes from extreme environments.
Prof Mur, Targeting natural products to counter the challenge of MRSA.
Dr Bugert, Biological evaluation of [L] ddBCNAs as novel cell-targeting antivirals.
Prof Allemann, An Innovative Approach to New Antimicrobial Drugs.
Dr Young, Structure-based design of human P2X4-selective small-molecule modulators.
Dr Pertusati, Diastereoselective Synthesis of Phosphoroamidate Prodrugs.