| Collaborations with industry
The Bradley group has many links with industry. Most postdocs. and postgraduates work have industry funding.
Most of the Ph.D. students have Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE awards). The student thus researches an area of interest for the company, and in return receives a "top-up" grant. The student also has a placement (usually of three months duration) during her/his Ph.D. when she/he carries out his work on the company's premises.
Currently the industrial collaborations with the Bradley research group include:
Government funding of projects and students:
The Bradley Research Group will also like to thank The Royal Thai Government Scholarship for funding of Postgraduate Students, in past and present times.
Research Collaborators:
Dr. Salim Khakoo:
He is currently Senior Lecturer and Consultant Hepatologist at Southampton. Our collaboration pursues to develop new high throughput methodologies which help to increase the knowledge of mechanisms and biomolecules involved in the activation of immuno cells such as T cells. Currently Dr. Alexandra Mant has started interfacing our polymer arrays with bone marrow cells.
Prof. David Porteous:
Prof. Porteous is Head of the Centre for Molecular Medicine (MMC) at the University of Edinburgh. His group is part of the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium. Our collaboration will be also target the development of efficient transfection agents for primary cells and Identification of biomaterials capable to adhere CF (Cystic Fibrosis) cells from patients.
http://www.genetics.med.ed.ac.uk
Dr. Michal Lebl:
He is Senior Director of Automation in Illimina Inc, a cutting edge company which supplies tools for large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function.
Prof. Donna Davies:
She is Professor of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology in the Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair at the School of Medicine, Southampton. The use of combinatorial libraries as tool to study the relative unknown ADAM33 protease which is involved in asthmatic processes is one of the projects. Another project involves the use of our polymer microarrays to study epithelial cells.
http://www.som.soton.ac.uk/research/iir/respiratory/members/DaviesDE/DaviesDE.htm
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