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Research projects 2001 - Vascular disease

Clinical studies of vascular disease At Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Professor Jill Belch et al have been awarded a Lord Dowding Fund equipment grant to help purchase a state-of-the-art ultrasound...

Research projects 2001 - Tissue engineering

Tissue engineering using soluble glass fibre substrates Drs Jonathan Knowles and Mark Lewis at London's Eastman Dental Institute have developed a soluble, phosphate-based glass fibre substrate for...

Research projects 2001 - Pain research

Central nervous system processing of human gut sensation A collaboration between Dr Qasim Aziz of Hope Hospital, Salford and Dr Paul Furlong of Aston University is using functional brain imaging techniques...

Research projects 2001 - Calcium imbalance

With LDF support, Christopher Wong (right) at Bristol Royal Infirmary is establishing a human cell culture model to study the causes of a calcium imbalance in the blood. Calcium concentration within the...

Research projects 2001 - UK Human tissue bank

The Lord Dowding Fund has recently purchased a new High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) machine for the http://www.ukhtb.org/UK Human Tissue Bank (UKHTB). In the search for alternatives to the...

Research projects 2001 - Food safety testing

The current test for the detection of certain marine poisons is a mouse test classified by the Home Office as a procedure of 'substantial' severity. Mice are injected with shellfish or seawater extract...

Research projects 2001 - 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...

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