Neuroresearchers Fund - Current Awards

• *Dr Miruna Barbu (Postdoc, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) to visit Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York, to attend a training course and spend time in Professor Sophia Frangou's laboratory to learn computation psychiatry techniques and start a new collaboration.
• *Dr Sarah McGlasson (Postdoc, UK Dementia Research Institute at Edinburgh) to visit the laboratory of Professor Wilbur Lam, Emory University School of Medicine to learn the technical details of a microvascularture-on-a-chip model.
• *Sau Yee Tsoi (Research Assistant, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) to visit the headquarters of Visiopharm in Denmark to be trained in the use of the software used to execute feature detection through deep leaning, and visualize data from her experiments. 
• Eamon Fitzgerald (PhD student, Centre for Cardiovascular Science) for a visit to the lab of Dr Daniel Tennant at the Metabolic Tracer Analysis Core, University of Birmingham,  to learn isotope ratio mass spectrometry techniques and analysis. In the end, this trip did not happen so Eamon has returned the funds to be re-allocated in the next round.

April 2018 awardees

We are delighted that the Neuroresearchers fund was able to make awards totally £3,950 to five Edinburgh Neuroscience researchers in the April 2108 call.  Congratulations go to:

• Dr HongYan Zhang (Chancellor’s Fellow, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) for a visit to Dr Jian-Ren Song’ lab in TongJi University, Shanghai, China to learn a new technique (patch clamping spinal neurons in adult zebrafish).
• Dr Cristina Martinez Gonzalez (Postdoc, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) for a visit to the laboratory of Prof. Karl Deisseroth to learn the Clarity tissue clearing technique.
• Dr Elizabeth Davenport (Postdoc, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) for a visit to Dr. Etienne Herzog at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Neurosciences, Bordeaux to learn Fluorescence Activated Synaptosome Sorting (FASS).
• Dr Mark Rodrigues (ECAT PhD student, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) for a visit to the Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) Research Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital to establish a multicentre external validation study for cerebral amyloid angiopathy. 

November 2017 awardees

We are delighted that the Neuroresearchers fund was able to make awards totally £2,700 to five Edinburgh Neuroscience researchers in the November 2107 call.  Congratulations go to:

• Mr Alexander Ahl (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) for a visit to Leuven, Belgium to learn analysis of Drosophila aggression behaviour to auditory stimuli.
• Dr Justin Killick (Postdoc, Centre for Regenerative Medicine) for a visit to the University of Bern to learn a new technique for at T cell migration across the blood brain barrier
• Ms Joanna Smith (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) for a visit to the Brain Centre Rudolf Magnus, Utrecht, to learn acquision and analysis of rat rsfMRI data and start a new collaboration with Prof Rick Dijkhuizen.
• Dr Antoine Vallatos (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) to visit the University of Glasgow to train in histological processing of brain tissue for MRI.
• Dr Stewart Wiseman (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) to visit Moorfields Eye Hospital and Queen's University Belfast to train in multi-modal retinal imaging.

April 2017 awardees

We are delighted that, as a result of new funding, the Neuroresearchers fund was able to make awards totally £6,055 to six Edinburgh Neuroscience researchers in the April 2107 call. This fund is particularly aimed at bringing new techniques and collaborations to Edinburgh. Congratulations go to:

• Dr Sam Booker (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) for a series of visits to Newcastle to develop GABAergic recordings in human neocortical tissue.
• Dr Joshua Dacre (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) for a visit to Janelia Research Farm, USA, to learn how to use Neuropixel probes and bring the technique to Edinburgh.
• Mr Richard Fitzpatrick (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) for a visit to the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore to learn about in silico simulations of learning and memory, and develop a collaboration with Professor Upi Bhalla.
• Mr Eli Kinney-Lang (Engineering) a visit to the Calgary Paediatric Stroke Programme at the University of Calgary to build a research collaboration on brain-computer interfaces.
• Dr Laura McCulloch (Roslin Institute) a visit to Stanford University to learn splenic nerve dissection and establish a new collaboration with Prof Marion Buckwalter.
• Dr Michael Stringer (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) for a visit to University of Oulu, Finland, to learn about using Magnetic Resonance Encephalography and establish a new collaboration with the researchers and developers there.

Previous awards (2010 - 2016)

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