Previous Guts UK Development Grant recipients
These are the previous recipients of Development Grants from Guts UK (formerly Core).
| Title First and Surname | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Michael Burkitt | University of Liverpool | Characterisation and assessment of the functional impact on gastric preneoplasia of the non-helicobacter gastric dysbiosis in Nfkb1-/- and Nfkb2-/- mice |
| Dr Laura Itzhaki | University of Cambridge | Developing chemical inhibitors of protein-protein interactions of oncoprotein gankyrin for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma and other cancers |
| Dr Naaventhan Palaniyappan | University of Nottingham | Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques in the evaluation and estimation of portal hypertension |
| Dr Tariq Ahmed | Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital | UK IBD Genetics Consortium Study of anti-TNF pharmacogenomics – predicting response and toxicity to anti-TNF drugs (= PANTS) |
| Dr Alexander Hal Drakesmith | University of Oxford | Use of bone morphogenetic protein pathway agonists as antivirals against Hepatitis C virus |
| Dr Charlie Lees | Western General Hospital, Edinburgh | The gut microbiota and NOD2 genotype in Crohn’s disease: a pilot study for the UKIBD Microbiota Consortium |
| Dr Tahera Ansari | Northwick Park Institute, Harrow | The development of a tissue engineered pouch |
| Dr Matthew Brookes | New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton | Is the tumour suppressor APC (ademonatous polyposis coli) crucial to iron mediated colorectal carcinogenesis? |
| Dr Sheena Cruickshank | University of Manchester | Mechanisms Underlaying the Development of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The role of RANKL in dendritic cell activity |
| Professor Charles Knowles | Queen Mary University | A novel human in-vitro model of visceral pain using the appendix. |
| Dr Stuart McDonald | Barts and the London | Locating the stem cell niche and tracing the origin and development and spread of epithelial cell lineages in the human colonic crypt |
| Professor David Sanders | Royal Hallamshire Hospital | Can a scoring system improve patient selection and outcome following PEG? |
| Dr Ann Williams | University of Bristol | Functional analysis of BAG-1 in colorectal epithelial cells: BAG-1 as a regulator of NK-kappaB activity and disease progression of inflammatory bowel disease |