Grants and Publications
The Essex Biomedical Sciences Institute attracts research funding from a wide range of government, charitable and commercial sources. See below for details of recently funded grants:
Chris Cooper/Mike Wilson
Heme blockers: reducing the toxicity of extracellular hemoglobin
BBSRC £124,052
Neil Kad
Direct real-time visualisation of the prokaryotic DNA repair machinery at
work; a quantitative single molecule approach
BBSRC £394,346
Jody Mason/Neil Kad
Semi-rationally designed peptides to target and sequester amyloid as
non-toxic soluble oligomers
Parkinson's Society £84,096
Chris Cooper
Gas signalling and biological energy
Leverhulme Trust £208,935
Jody Mason
Using semi-rational design and protein folding to engineer highly
specific protein interactions for therapeutic intervention
Wellcome Trust £214,854
Murray Griffin
Can the Nintendo Wii improve balance and quality of life
Colchester Hospital NHS Trust £10,000
Jody Mason
Iterative Design, Randomisation, Selection, Truncation, and
Characterisation to Generate Small High Affinity Antagonists of the Activator
Protein-1 Motif
CRUK £236,756
John Norton
Further development and evaluation of a novel serological diagnostic method for
colorectal cancer; a continuing study
Colchester Hospital NHS Trust £35,968
Elena Klenova
Prostate Cancer: early detection, monitoring and prognosis
Colchester Catalyst Charity £84,043
Elena Klenova
Collaborative Studies
Colchester Hospital NHS Trust £40,000
Chris Cooper
Non-invasive multi-modal cerebral monitoring
MRC £14,681
Murray Griffin
2012 Healthy Lifestyles Project
Healthy Living Solutions £13,000
Valerie Gladwell, Jules Pretty,
Peter Lynn
Green Exercise: the combined effect of the environment and exercise on
cardiac and psychological health
ESRC £298,083.01
Murray Griffin
Community metrics project evaluation
Mid-Essex PCT £5,000
Murray Griffin
Continued development of evidence based practice within the healthy living
team
Mid-Essex PCT £20,000
Caroline Angus, Jules Pretty,
Gavin Sandercock, Ralph Beneke
Tackling health through children's outdoor play
Heart Research UK £9,900
Jody Mason
Semi-rationally designed peptides to target and sequester amyloid as
non-toxic soluble oligomers
Help the Aged £43,552
Jody Mason
Semi-rationally designed peptides to target and sequester B-amyloid and a-synuclein
as small non-toxic oligomers
Alzheimer’s Research Trust £27,462
Chris Cooper, Mike Wilson
Artificial Blood: reducing the intrinsic toxicity of haemoglobin
BBSRC £143,000
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