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Seed funding awarded to UCL early career neuroscience researchers by the UCL Neuroscience Domain to help boost their research careers
The funding has helped our awardees to generate preliminary data, establish new techniques in the lab as well as fostering new collaborations, all which have been pivotal in helping them to secure additional research funding. Some of our awardees have since been awarded follow-up funding though Great Ormand Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity and independent fellowships including the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Fellowship and Wellcome Early Career Award to further their own independent research trajectories.
To date, our awardees have undertaken work into a variety of different topics including the role of Astrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease, the delivery of the Gilal cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) protein via biodegradable microparticles for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and the study of early-life tactile experiences for influencing social behaviours in adulthood.
One awardee has described the funding as allowing them ‘to gain experience in generating pilot data and research plans autonomously, which [has been] a key skill in an academic career’
Previous awardees and projects
2024
- Laura Andreoli: The importance of early life touch in the development of social bonding
- Guillermo Lopez Domenech: Activity Dependent Regulation of mtDNA Replication
- Danying Wang: The theta rhythm coordinates dynamic switching between representations of the present and future
- Isabel Bravo-Ferrar: How astrocytes promote synapse resilience? A role for Wnt signalling.
- David Ellis and Anya Suppermpool: A clear mind: characterising pigment-deficient mutants to expand the mosquito neurogenetic toolbox
- Sonam Gurung: Modulating blood brain barrier permeability to enhance delivery of systemically administered neurotherapeutics
2023
- Barbara Frias Garrido: Contribution of SRSF2 and hnRNPA1 to the development of neurodegenerative disorders
- Holly Gregory: Precise GDNF Delivery to the Brain and Peripheral Nerves using Electrosprayed Microparticles
- Christina Toomey: Contribution of SRSF2 and hnRNPA1 to the development of neurogenerative disorders
- Yichao Yu: Treating Major Depression with Magnemechanical stimulation of astrocytes