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UK-India Education & Research Initiative Successes
Keele has been very successful in bids to the UK-India Education and Research Initiative securing five awards and boosting the University's broader internationalisation and social responsibility agenda.
ISTM's successful application is for stem cell research with Dr Nick Forsyth and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. It will support a project entitled, ‘Investigating modulation of miRNA expression in the hypoxic stem cell niche’. The funding will support an exchange programme of lead investigators and PhD students between ISTM and IIT Delhi over the next 19 months, at a cost of £39,000.
The other four Keele awards comprise one for medicinal chemistry with Professor Pat Bailey and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, and three with Tata Institute of Social Sciences for law/social work.
The UKIERI funds activity aimed at establishing educational relations between the UK and India and the funding stream has been available since 2006. The current programme of funding is aimed at producing systemic changes in India and will provide opportunities for professional and leadership development of schools, higher education institutions and vocational institutions, support partnerships and develop student mobility and skills development programmes.
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