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Successful Grants and Partnerships - January 2012

Nadira Mirza, School of Lifelong Education and Development, has received a £29,629 grant from the British Council for the Bradford/Mirpur Connection and the Global Citizenship of its Young People:  A Partnership Development Research Project.

Kamyar Afrinkia, Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, School of Life Sciences, has received a £51,966 grant from Yorkshire Cancer Research for a studentship to investigate the role of stem cells in glioma, and a travel grant for £1,220 to attend Gordon Research Conference on Chemotactic Cytokines.

Andrea Capstick, Bradford Dementia Group, School of Health Studies has been awarded £101,102 by the National Institute for Health Research (School for Social Care Research). Her project is designed to find out whether Participatory Video (PV) can enhance social participation and well-being for people with dementia in residential social care.

Andrew Wilson, Chris Gaffney and Jo Buckberry, Archaeological,Geographical and Environmental Sciences, Hassan Ugail, Informatics Research Institute, School of Computing, Informatics and Media and 2 external colleagues have received a £749,966 research grant from JISC for Digitised Diseases - informing clinical understanding of chronic conditions affecting the skeleton using archaeological and historical exemplars.

Analytics enabled green technologies for processing of poorly soluble drug - This project brings together skills from the Advanced Materials Engineering and Pharmaceutical Engineering Science RKT Centres;  its aim is to improve the bioavailability (improved solubility) of drugs by making co-crystals or solid dispersions using reactive extrusion and supercritical fluid assisted technologies, with in-process spectroscopic analysis. The award is £40k in total (£23k to Bradford) to Phil Coates and Anant Paradkar, in collaboration with an ICT Mumbai team led by Prof G. D. Yadav.

Richard Wheelhouse, Pharmacy, and Roger Phillips. ICT, School of Life Sciences, have received a £184,612 grant from Yorkshire Cancer Research.  They will investigate a new 'carrier molecule', which will be attached to established drugs to make the act of taking them a quicker, more convenient and less distressing process.

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