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A selection of news items about the Research Institute from 2010...
DEFRA award to Keele team
Posted on 22 November 2010
Drs William Kirk and Gordon Hamilton have been awarded a Defra Horticulture LINK grant to study "Biological, semiochemical and selective chemical management methods for insecticide resistant western flower thrips on protected strawberry".
Bio-TE 2010 course at Keele
Posted on 25 November 2010
A 4-day interactive Keele training course targeted at industry and academia at postgraduate level, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the use of Bioreactors in Tissue Engineering.
Epigenetics group makes top ten Obs & Gynae papers
Posted on 16 November 2010
Keele and UHNS's Epigenetics group has a paper published in 2008 that is now in the top ten cited publications in the British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
Project success reported at latest 3ME Workshop
Posted on 26 November 2010
Members of the Modelling Methods for Medical Engineering (3ME) initiative held a workshop at the Keele Management Centre to share the first results of some of the projects supported at its "sandpit" meetings held in the last two years.
X-rays and Alzheimer’s: lighting the way forward for neurodegenerative disease research
Posted on 21 September 2010
Diamond Light Source takes a closer look at the research taking place at the synchrotron into the disease that is the most common cause of dementia and affects over 400,000 people in the UK.
ISTM welcomes new research students for 2010/11
Posted on 30 November 2010
The Institute has welcomed its new cohort of research students in autumn 2010 studying for higher degrees of PhD or MPhil.
Four charity awards for ISTM research and medical students
Posted on 20 October 2010
The North Staffordshire Medical Institute has presented two ISTM staff and two medical students with its 2010 awards at a presentation on 14 October.
Guest Mathematician models tissue growth
Posted on 13 October 2010
Professor John King, University of Nottingham, gave a 3ME Initiative Seminar on Mathematical modeling of biological tissue growth at Keele on Monday 11 October 2010.
Stroke in Stoke... Prof Christine Roffe's Inaugural Lecture
Posted on 13 October 2010
Professor Christine Roffe gave the opening lecture in the University's programme of Inaugural Lectures for 2010/11 “Stroke in Stoke and beyond”, on Tuesday, 5 October, 2010.
Cash Injection for ISTM spin-out nanoTherics
Posted on 20 October 2010
Catapult Venture Managers and Mercia Technology Seed Fund, have invested £800,000 into Keele spin-out company, nanoTherics.
EU funding for research into mosquito-borne disease
Posted on 01 May 2010
A Keele team has been awarded £221,495 by the European Union Framework 7 Programme to support their research into novel technologies for the control of mosquito-borne disease.
Research Partnership to fight Malaria
Posted on 27 September 2010
Keele is collaborating with a new state-of-the-art laboratory at the Malaria Research and Training Centre, University of Bamako in Mali, which will soon be rearing Africa's first mosquitoes genetically modified to resist malaria.
Keele's new Vice Chancellor visits ISTM
Posted on 14 September 2010
Prof Nick Foskett, Keele's new Vice Chancellor, visited the Research Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine on 14 September 2010, the first of a series of visits to the University's departments.
International Protein Structure Workshop at Keele
Posted on 27 September 2010
An international workshop focusing on protein structure and function and qualitative protein crystallography has been held at Keele, organised by members of ISTM.
Californian connection for Sarah Hart
Posted on 01 July 2010
Dr Sarah Hart, ISTM member and Lecturer in Bioscience in Keele's Medicine School, is currently visiting the National Biological Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of California, San Francisco, in the laboratories of Professor Al Burlingame.
Spin out company wins design award
Posted on 30 May 2010
Medical device company PRO Medical Innovations – a spin-out company from Keele – has been awarded "red dot recognition" for the design of Safeceps obstetric forceps, a modern-day plastic adaptation of the traditional birthing tool.
Latest seminar in modelling methods for medical engineering
Posted on 24 June 2010
Professor Federico Sabina, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, presented the latest 3ME Initiative seminar on Thursday 24 June at the Guy Hilton Research Centre.
Scientific reception at Westminster on genetic modification of insects
Posted on 01 July 2010
Professor Paul Eggleston, Professor of Molecular Entomology in ISTM, gave a talk at a scientific reception organised by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology at Westminster, London.
Keele research in Royal Society anniversary celebrations
Posted on 09 July 2010
The Royal Society celebrates its 350th anniversary this year, and Keele researchers took part in a Summer Science Exhibition held in London at the end of June.
High standards confirmed for research using human tissues
Posted on 26 February 2010
Keele has successfully passed its first audit by the Human Tissue Authority - a government appointed body which oversees storage and use of human tissue for research, patient treatment, teaching and public exhibition.
Orthopaedics Research Team Meeting at Keele
Posted on 10 October 2010
Keele's orthopaedics team in ISTM held a half-day meeting with key clinical staff from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in early May, to identify new multi-disciplinary projects for the next five years.
"PEARLS" Project Shines
Posted on 01 April 2010
A team of health researchers from Keele and Staffordshire Universities has won a prestigious Shine award from the Health Foundation to develop the PEARLS.net e-learning system.
Wellcome Trust Grant for New Equipment
Posted on 30 April 2010
A research team in ISTM has been awarded nearly £300,000 by the Wellcome Trust for replacement analytical equipment to research the chemicals that insects use to communicate.
Congratulations to ISTM members on their promotions
Posted on 31 March 2010
Five ISTM members of academic and clinical staff acheived promotions in the latest round, congratulations to: Prof Jim Middleton, Prof Christine Roffe, Dr Nick Forsyth, Dr Stas Glazewski and Dr Paul Horrocks.
"Creativity@Keele" for ISTM's Regen Med research group
Posted on 31 March 2010
The Keele Regenerative Medicine research group held a one-day workshop at Trentham Monkey Forest on 4 March 2010, which spanned from Cell therapies, Bioengineering to Ageing.
Topical Review on Cochlea Hair Cells
Posted on 28 February 2010
Drs David Furness and Michael Evans, ISTM, and Professor Carole Hackney of Sheffield University have written a "topical review" for the Journal of Physiology about some recent exciting developments in their research field, concerning how cochlear hair cells detect sound.
ISTM Strategy highlighted at Medical Academic Forum
Posted on 17 February 2010
ISTM Director, Professor Gordon Ferns, gave a presentation on the vision and strategy for the Research Institute at a one-day meeting of Keele's Medical Academic Forum.
National Research Group Appointment
Posted on 01 February 2010
Mark Smith, Research Manager for ISTM, has been appointed to serve on the Research Organisations Consultation Group, a national body representing the interests and concerns of research-led universities to the UK Research Councils.
Arthritis Research Campaign funds cell therapy research
Posted on 31 January 2010
The Arthritis Research Campaign has awarded funding of over £484,000 for a five year research programme into osteoarthritis, led by Professor Sally Roberts, ISTM.
Marie Curie Fellowship Award
Posted on 19 February 2010
Drs William Kirk and Gordon Hamilton have been awarded a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship to allow an experienced natural products chemist from India, Dr Sudhakar Akella, to carry out research at Keele for two years.
New research grant for Parkinson's Disease project
Posted on 15 February 2010
Dr Rosemary Fricker-Gates and Dr Monte Gates have been awarded £195,373 by the Parkinson's Disease Society UK for a new three year project.
Shadow Health Minister visits Keele
Posted on 10 January 2010
Shadow Minister for Health, Stephen O'Brien MP, visited Keele in January 2010 to be briefed on the University's health teaching and research activities.
ISTM Research videos online
Video news clips from Research TV about ISTM's research:
- Malaria, Mosquitoes and Man - breaking a deadly cycle
- Breath of Life - a new diagnostic technique
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