MRC Discovery Award
The University of Manchester was awarded a MRC Discovery Award for 'capacity building in single cell inflammation discovery: developing the next generation of scientists'.
The MCCIR and the Infection, Immunity, Inflammation and Repair domain recently launched a call for pump-priming and/or to develop early career researchers in single cell analysis of clinically relevant inflammation. Those awarded all make use of the University's MRC funded state-of-the-art Single Cell Facility.
Successful applications
Antifungal potency of the airway epithelium in health and disease: a single cell approach
Principal Investigator: Dr Elaine Bignell
Co-investigator: Dr Margherita Bertuzzi - Manchester Fungal Infection Group
Award value: £81,276
Applying single cell technology to Steroid Resistant Asthma: identifying the role of circadian mechanisms in TH17 cells
Principal Investigator: Dr Hannah Durrington
Co-investigators: Dr John Blaikley, Prof David, Ray, Dr Steve Fowler
Award value: £26,481
Does single cell biological noise conceal circadian timing information
Principal Investigator: Dr J Blaikley
Co-investigators: Dr H Durrington, Prof D Ray, Prof A Hazel
Award value: £86,966
Monocyte heterogeneity in health and inflammatory disease
Principal Investigator: Dr Sebastien Viatte
Co-investigators: Ben Mulhearn, Paul Martin, Syed Murtuza Baker
Award value: £73,326
High-resolution definition of pulmonary immune cells during human asthma
Principal Investigator: Prof Andrew McDonald
Co-investigators: Dr Peter Cook, Prof Angela Simpson, Dr Robert Niven
Award value: £40,000
The nanoscale organisation of naïve and regulatory T cell surfaces in juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients
Principal Investigators: Prof Stephen Eyre, Prof Daniel M Davis
Co-investigators: Pawel Paszek, Paul Martin, Annie Yarwood
Award value: £100,000
Panel members
Members of the panel included:
- Professor Tracy Hussell
- Professor Mike White
- Professor Nigel Hooper
- Professor Jane Worthington
- Professor Angela Simpson
- Professor Andrew Sharrocks
- Professor Chris Thompson
- Dr Gareth Howell