NEWSLETTER JUL-OCT 2019
Volume 2 / Issue 7
STUDENTS
Congratulations to our PhD student Kiran who successfully passed his PhD VIVA, and is already working as a postdoctoral scientist in the US. Good luck!
Well done to our Masters student Jose who successfully finished his research project.
AWARDS
Reinhold received a 2019 Global Peer Review Award from Publons for being in the Top 1% reviewers in Molecular Biology and Genetics.
GRANTS
Varun was awarded a Wellcome Trust ISSF postdoctoral fellowship.
Reinhold was awarded a Belfast Association from the Blind grant.
Alan and Reinhold were awarded a research project grant from BHF.
Reinhold and Alan won a Dunhill Medical Trust research project grant.
CONFERENCES
Reinhold presented at the 2019 International Cellular Senescence Association Meeting in Athens.
Reinhold presented at the First Cardiovascular Disease Northern Ireland Meeting at the University of Ulster in Jordanstown.
The group attended and presented at the QUB- REMERGE meeting 2019.
TWO PAPERS PUBLISHED
Vascular Regeneration for Ischemic Retinopathies: Hope from Cell Therapies.
Bertelli PM, Pedrini E, Guduric-Fuchs J, Peixoto E, Pathak V, Stitt AW, Medina RJ.
Curr Eye Res. 2019 Oct 31:1-13. doi: 10.1080/02713683.2019.1681004. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID:31609636
No evidence of Gremlin1-mediated activation of VEGFR2 signalling in endothelial cells.
Dutton LR, O' Neill CL, Medina RJ, Brazil DP.
J Biol Chem. 2019 Oct 11. pii: jbc.AC119.010148. doi: 10.1074/jbc.AC119.010148. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:31604823
OTHER EVENTS
- Reinhold hosted Prof Matthias Clauss from Indiana University as the Guest Speaker for the WWIEM Seminar Series.
