2010 research awards
The following members of staff at King's were successful in applying for research project funding from the first joint call made by FAPESP and King's.
Professor Michael J Brammer - Institute of Psychiatry
Project Title: Bridging the Gap between Statistics, Machine Learning and Clinical Practice: an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Study on Human Brain Mapping
FAPESP Partner: Joao Ricardo Sato, Centro Matemática, Computação e Cognição – UFABC
Professor Sarah Cowley - Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Project Title: Skills for Health Needs Assessment in Nursing
FAPESP Partner: Professor Emiko Yoshikawa Egry, Escola de Enfermagem – USP
Dr Paul F Long - Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Medicine
Project Title: Construction of Diploid Streptomyces Bacteria: Implications for Genome Evolution & Drug Discovery
FAPESP Partner: Dr Gabriel Padilla Maldonado, Instituto Ciências Biomédicas – USP
Professor Anne Ridley - Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, School of Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Role of ARHGAP21 and FMNL1 proteins in Rho GTPase signalling and cancer progression
FAPESP Partner: Dr Sara Olella Saad, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas – UNICAMP
Professor Paul Sharpe - Dental Institute
Project Title: Oral Epithelial Stem Cells - Evaluation of Response to Injury and Self-renew Capacity
FAPESP Partner: Dr Andrea Mantesso, Faculdade de Odontologia – USP
Professor Swee Lay Thein - Division of Gene and Cell Based Therapy, School of Medicine
Project Title: Clinical, Cellular and Molecular Alterations in the Haemoglobinopathies and the Understanding of the Regulation of Fetal Haemoglobin Production
FAPESP Partner: Dr Nicola Conran, Hemocentro – UNICAMP
Dr Yanira Riffo Vasquez - Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Biomedical Sciences
Project Title: Obesity and Sex Hormones in Lung Injury
FAPESP Partner: Dr Wothan Tavares de Lima, Instituto Ciências Biomédicas – USP
Further information can also be found on the FAPESP website.