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2004-05 Back Pain - Tissue culture system
Intervertebral discs are the cartilage between individual spinal bones which act as shock absorbers. Degeneration of the intervertebral disc (DIVD) is often implicated in chronic low back pain. With...
2004-05 Infection - The use of protozoa to model human infection
Professor Brown of Bath University is establishing a humane method of incubating bacteria instead of growing the bacteria inside animals, for the study of infection. In the field of infection, experiments...
2004-05 Cancer Research - In vitro model for the study of liver metastasis from cancer of the colon
Dr Bird of Sheffield University is the first researcher in the UK to use human tissue models for the study of liver metastasis, where cells from an original cancer tumour spread to the liver and new tumours...
2004-05 Cancer Research - Improved cell culture methods for anti-cancer drug development
The LDF has been funding Professor Ian Cree of the Translational Oncology Research Centre, Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, to develop improved cell culture techniques for testing the efficacy of...
2004-05 Infertility - In vitro study of human male sperm cells
Funding of Professor Chris Barratt and Dr Ian Brewis continued for their research into the study of human male infertility at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. During previous research funded by the LDF, the...
2004-05 Brain Research - MEG brain imaging to study visual attention
We provided a research grant to Dr Kristin Pammer and Dr Piers Cornelissen at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne using magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain imaging in human volunteers as an alternative...
2004-05 Brain Research - MEG and auditory processing
Drs Caroline Witton and Paul Furlong at the Neurosciences Research Institute, Aston University, have been funded by the LDF to conduct experiments expected to highlight the redundancy of animal models...
2004-05 Brain Research - Central nervous system processing of human gut sensation
Lord Dowding Fund scientists have developed a brain imaging technique to non-invasively record nerve cell activity in the human brain without the limitations encountered with previous techniques. The technique...
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