2011 research awards
We are pleased to announce that the following members of staff at King's have been successful in applying for research project funding from the second joint call made by FAPESP and King's.
Dr Francesca Baletto - Department of Physics
Project Title: Computational Nanoscience for Energy Materials
FAPESP Partner: Professor Alex Antonelli, Professor Caetano Rodrigues Miranda – UNICAMP
Professor Debra Bick - Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
Project Title: Improving Health Professional's Skills in Using Appropriate Technologies to Strengthen Continuity of Primary Care
FAPESP Partner: Dr Anna Maria Chiesa – USP
Professor Anthony Cleare - Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry (IoP)
Project Title: Mineralocorticoid Receptor Polymorphism and Function in Patients with Depression and Early Life Stress
FAPESP Partner: Professor Mario Francisco Juruena – USP
Professor Brian Hurwitz - Centre for Humanities and Health (A&H)
Project Title: The Pathologies of Modernity and the Remedies from Humanities
FAPESP Partner: Professor Dante Marcello Claramonte Gallian – CeHFi-UNIFESP
Professor MM McCabe, Professor Peter Adamson, Dr Martin Dinter - Department of Philosophy (A&H)
Project Title: Plato and Aristotle in Antiquity
FAPESP Partner: Professor Marco Zingano – USP
Professor John Strang - Addictions Department (IoP)
Project Title: National Institute of Public Policy for Alcohol and Other Drugs (INPAD)
FAPESP Partner: Professor Ronaldo Laranjeira – UNIFESP
Dr Slavik Tabakov - Department of Medical Engineering and Physics (Medicine)
Project Title: Development of Adapted Modules for E-learning Training on Medical Physics and Medical Engineering
FAPESP Partner: Paulo Roberto Costa – USP
Dr Gerd Wagner - Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (BMS)
Project Title: From Trypanosomes to Leishmania: Novel Drug Candidates for the Treatment of Neglected Parasitic Diseases
FAPESP Partner: Dr Andre Tempone – Sao Paulo Laboratory of Applied Toxinology
Further information can also be found on the FAPESP website.