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The newsletter is published monthly during term time. This issue
covers
the period October 2013. Please let Cat
Hale([email protected]) know
if there are items you would like included in the next
issue.
We aim to report successful grant applications, published
papers, and
related research news.
elcome
EPSRC Grant Success for Dr Edwards
Dr Al Edwards has successfully won an EPSRC New Investigators
Grant of
123,495 for his project entitled Lab on a Stick:
Smartphone-ready low cost
rapid live microbe detection and identification using
nano-coated Micro-
Capillary Film.
The grant will support a post-doctoral research assistant for
one year to
further Als exciting research in this area whichis earmarked for
impact in
the next REF period.
Related to this grant news is the continued success of Dr
Edwards start -up
company Capilllary Film Technologies which was featured in
Scientist Live
this week
(http://www.scientistlive.com/content/capillary-film-
technology-launch-new-fluoropolymer-micro-capillary-film-medica).
Inside This Issue
Welcome
EPSRC Grant Success for
Dr Edwards
Paper of the Week
Funding Opportunities
Dr Howard Appointed to
RPS Panel
Feeling the Squeeze?
Hot off the Press
RSOP Completes
Pharmacy
Research UK project
QUASAR Seminar Series
At Queen Annes School
Pharmacy Practice
Seminar
School of PharmacyResearch Newsletter
1stNovember, 2013 #18
The capillary film fluoropolymer at the heart of CFTs novel
immune
assay platform.Source:
http://www.scientistlive.com/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/MicroCapillaryFilm.jpg
Dr Ben Whalley gave an
invited talk entitled
CBD and CBDV in
Models of Acute Seizure
and Epilepsy at New
York University Langone
School of Medicines
Symposium on the
Cannabidiol in Epilepsy
and Other Neurological
Disorders,
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Funding Opportunities
Grant opportunities see Funding news on the University Web
pages.Studentship opportunities have their own page. These pages
list
numerous opportunities for grants and studentships, as well as
the
deadlines. Research Professional Onlineis a searchable source of
funding
opportunities and research news.
ERC Grant opportunities
I hope many will have noticed the increasing number of emails
landing in
your inboxes regarding the availability of new ERC funding. One
of our
major research aims for the coming 5 years is to secure major
ERC grants
that will support some of our emerging research themes. Please
take
advantage of the drop-in sessions run by Kirsty Smith to discuss
any plansor queries about these new schemes at the earliest
opportunity.
Paper of the Week!
One of Dr Barny Greenlands recently published papers (see
October
RSOP Research News) has been selected as the Paper of the Week'
by the
ournal, Polymer Chemistry:
http://blogs.rsc.org/py/2013/10/08/paper-of-the-week-healable-
supramolecular-polymer-nanocomposite-films/
Vaiyapuri R, Greenland BW, Colquhoun HM, Elliott JM & Hayes
W (2013)
Molecular recognition between functionalized gold nanoparticles
and a
healable supramolecular polymer blend a route to property
enhancement Polym. Chem.4, 4902-4909.
Dr Gary Stephens, in
conjunction with Dr
Mark Carew (Kingston
University) and Dr Rita
Jabr (University of
Surrey) have been
awarded 800 in an
application for the
2013/14 Physiological
Society Departmental
Seminar Scheme.
Details of seminar
dates will follow in due
course!
Dr Howard Appointed to RPS Panel
Dr Rachel Howard has been appointed to the Royal
Pharmaceutical
Societys Conference Panel which organizes the long-standing
and
prestigious RPS Annual Conference.
Dr Rachel Howard
spoke at a South
Central NHS non-
medical prescribing
conference on 4th
October, delivering a
talk entitled
Recognising the risk in
prescribing: Lessonsfrom the PRACtICe
study
Feeling the Squeeze?
Dr Ann Chippindale and Dr Kenneth Shankland have recently
taken
delivery of some new equipment for the Gemini single-crystal
diffractometer that allows the study of crystal structures as a
function of
pressure. The high-pressure diamond anvil cell, which is mounted
on the
diffractometer allows crystals to be squeezed at pressures up to
ca 20GPa
(200,000 atmospheres) and even permits the growth of crystals
under
pressure.
Why would one wish to do so, particularly with pharmaceuticals?
Simply
because it is another thermodynamic variable with which to study
the
structural behavior of molecules and is a valuable aid in the
study of phasetransitions and the discovery of new polymorphs.
Single-crystal
experiments under pressure requires a lot of practice, as
loading crystals
into the cell, measuring the pressure (via fluorescence) and
collecting the
diffraction data are non-trivial, so there is a steep learning
curve.
Nevertheless this is an excitin new ca abilit that we are keen
to ex loit!
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Hot Off the Press!
Krishnaa T Mahbubani, Nigel KH Slater, Edwards AD(2013)
Protection of
dried probiotic bacteria from bile using bile adsorbent
resins
New Biotechnologydoi:10.1016/j.nbt.2013.09.001
Buist AR, Kennedy AR, Shankland K, Shankland N, Spillman MJ
(2013) Saltforms of amides: protonation and polymorphism of
carbamazepine and
cytenamide Cryst. Growth Desdoi: 10.1021/cg401341y
Driver K, Baco S, Khutoryanskiy VV (2013) Hollow capsules formed
in a
single stage via interfacial hydrogen-bonded complexation of
methylcellulose with poly(acrylic acid) and tannic acid,
European Polymer
ournaldoi:10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2013.10.004
Murray CA, Cardin CJ, Greenland BW, Swift A & Colquhoun HM
(2013)
Pairwise assembly of organopalladium(II) units with
cyanurato(3-) and
trithiocyanurato(3-) ligands: formation of chiral Pd12, Pd10 and
Pd9 cage-molecules. Inorg. Chem.52, 10414-10430
Bajaj N, Hart LR, Greenland BW, Hayes W (2013) Urea
organogelators:
synthesis and properties Macromol. Symp.329, 1, 118-124.
Wright B, De Bank PA, Luetchford KA, Acosta FR, Connon CJ
(2013)
Oxidised alginate hydrogels as niche environments for corneal
epithelial
cells. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A doi:
10.1002/jbm.a.35011
Gouveia RM, Connon CJ (2013) The effects of retinoic acid on
human
corneal stromal keratocytes cultured in vitro. Investigative
Ophthalmology
and Vision Science doi: 10.1167/iovs.13-13092
Hoppe JB, Haag M, Whalley BJ, Salbego CG and Cimarosti H
(2013)
Curcumin protects organotypic hippocampal slice cultures from
A1-42-
induced synaptic toxicity Toxicol In Vitrodoi:
10.1016/j.tiv.2013.10.002
Donyai P, Okafor S, Virgo R, Amin K, Nasr M. (2013) Messages
about
Antibiotic Resistance in Different Newspaper Genres Pharmacy
1(2):181-
Dr Gary Stephenshas
been invited to join the
BBSRC Committee and
Pool of Experts.
Dr Ben Whalley andDr
Patrick Lewis have
been awarded 400 in
an application for the
2013/14 British
NeuroscienceAssociation Seminar
Scheme which will
allow RSOP to continue
the highly successful
Cellular and Molecular
Neuroscience Seminar
Series which has now
entered its third year!
Seminars will be held
once each month at
4pm on Wednesday.
Specific details of
seminar dates, venue
and speakers will be
circulated in advance
by email.
RSOP Completes Pharmacy Research UKproject
Shailesh Patel (formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at RSOP)
submitted his
final report to Pharmacy Research UK for his study entitled
An
investigation of pharmaceutical services and medication reviews
in care
home settings in Buckinghamshire: working towards the
development of a
new service model for improved patient care that was funded by a
Sir a
Hugh Linstead Fellowship Award. This marks 3 years of hard work
byShailesh who worked part-time on the project while setting up his
own
online pharmacy business in close collaboration with RSOPs Dr
Parastou
Donyai.
Dr Gary Stephenshas
been invited to be a
'guest blogger' at
Cellectricon:
http://www.cellectricon
.com/blog/2013/10/25/i
ntroducing-our-guest-
blogger-dr-gary-
stephens/
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