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BBSRC grant for magnetic nanoparticle gene delivery project
Dr Divya Chari, with Dr David Furness, has been awarded a grant of £304,000 by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to support a project entitled "Magnetic nanoparticle mediated delivery of neurotherapeutic genes to multipotent neural stem cell transplant populations".
The work will build on proof-of-concept data generated under a BBSRC New Investigator Award made to Dr Chari in 2008, with the development of rapid, high throughput methods to study stem cell-nanomaterial interactions being a major goal for the project.
Dr Chari is currently delivering a series of scientific lectures in India. She has spoken at a range of prestigious research institutions including the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), both in Bangalore.
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