NEWS
- PhD studentship available to work with Dr Peter Moody, Professor Emma Raven(Chemistry) and Dr Matthew Blakely (Institut Laue-Langevin,
Grenoble) on the structure of heme enzyme intermediates using neutron crystallography, see link - BBSRC 2011 Responsive Mode Grant, circa £316,000, awarded to Prof Geerten Vuister - "Validation of biomacromolecular structures determined by NMR spectroscopy and deposited in the Protein Data Bank"
- BBSRC 2011 Responsive Mode Grant, circa £550,000, awarded to Dr Shaun Cowley and Prof John Schwabe - "Understanding the recruitment of Class I HDACs into diverse repression complexes: implications for physiological activity and therapeutic development"
- Biochemistry PhD Student (Alice Barkell) wins UCB Celltech meeting poster prize
- Wellcome Trust Equipment Award - Dr P C E Moody, Professor's John Schwabe and Emma Raven (Chemistry)
- New approach could have a major impact on antibody engineering
- Department of Biochemistry 50th Anniversary
- Archived News
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Current research grants
- UCB-Celltech Ltd Collaborative Programme Grant. High field NMR studies of protein-drug interactions. £812,434, 1.2.09-31.7.12 (a 2 year rolling research grant funded for a minimum of 3½ years)
- MRC/UCB-Celltech Ltd Ph.D Studentship. Characterisation of the structures and interactions of cell surface receptors for Wnt family proteins. £110,720, 1.10.08-30.9.12
- BBSRC/UCB-Celltech Ltd Ph.D Studentship. Solution structures of complexes formed between therapeutic antibodies and target proteins. £110,720, 1.10.08-30.9.1
- Wellcome Trust Project Grant. Determination of the molecular basis of the cellular functions of Pdcd4, a novel type of tumour suppressor protein with key roles in the regulation of transcription and translation. £309,173, 1.12.07-30.11.10
- Wellcome Trust Programme Grant. Structures, functions and mechanisms of action of major M. tuberculosis and M. bovis protein virulence factors: towards a detailed understanding of the molecular basis of tuberculosis pathogenesis and importance of pathogen to host cell signalling. £494,192, 1.10.06-30.9.09 (principal applicant Dr Mark Carr and coapplicants Dr Richard Williamson, Dr Bernard Burke and Dr Stephen Gordon)
- BBSRC Ph.D Studentship. Determination of the roles of secreted mycobacterial proteins in pathogen to host cell signalling. £66,600, 1.10.06-30.9.10
- Saudi Arabia Ministry of Higher Education Ph.D Studentship. Structural and functional studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex proteins linked to tuberculosis pathogenesis. £77,250, 1.10.06-30.9.09
- UCB-Celltech Ltd Collaborative Project Grant. High field NMR studies of protein-drug interactions. £331,184, 1.2.06-31.1.09
- BBSRC/UCB-Celltech Ltd Ph.D Studentship. The development and application of new NMR spectroscopy-based approaches for obtaining detailed structural and mechanistic information for novel therapeutic antibodies. £74,500, 1.10.05-31.3.09
- BBSRC/UCB-Celltech Ltd Ph.D Studentship. Determination of the binding site structures and mechanisms of action of therapeutic antibodies. £60,000, 1.10.05-31.1.09
- Iran Ministry of Health Ph.D Studentship. Determination of the structures and molecular functions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence factors encoded by the Rv3613c-Rv3616c gene cluster. £64,000, 1.8.05-31.7.08
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