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Defining how the balance of glial homeostasis and inflammation drives brain ageing and neurodegeneration Jul 1, 2025 - Jun 30, 2028
This project aims to enable novel therapies for age-related neurodegenerative diseases by prioritising and defining the molecular mechanisms by which recently identified putative age-related genes are significantly enriched in homeostatic glial proce... Read More about Defining how the balance of glial homeostasis and inflammation drives brain ageing and neurodegeneration.

Evaluation of a digital Solution for the Assessment and Management of Pain in Scottish Care Services Jul 31, 2024 - Apr 24, 2025
This project focuses on evaluating a digital solution for assessing and managing pain among individuals with moderate to severe dementia in Scottish Care Services. The evaluation will focus on whether the tool contributed to improved patient outcomes... Read More about Evaluation of a digital Solution for the Assessment and Management of Pain in Scottish Care Services.

British Council - TNE Exploratory Grant - with ACU Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025
Co-development of a Professional Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science - a first step to a long-term educational partnership between Edinburgh Napier University (UK) and Ahram Canadian University (Egypt)

Algumer Enzyme Protection Dec 2, 2024 - Apr 30, 2025
Solid detergents, such as laundry sheets represent an excellent way to reduce water, waste, storage and transport costs, and packaging. However the manufacturing process of the sheet involves exposure to elevated temperatures to remove the water. Thi... Read More about Algumer Enzyme Protection.

Sustainable wild seaweed Jan 1, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025
Investigating the options for the use of seaweed as an alternative source for nanocellulose production for the medical industry.

A Permeapad assisted sample preparation workflow for the selective determination of anticonvulsants in human serum by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Jul 1, 2025 - Aug 26, 2025
Permeapad® 96-well plate (Jacobsen, Nielsen, Brandl, & Bauer-Brandl, 2020) is a high throughput screening tool developed to study the mass diffusion of drugs in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). The design of the device is similar to the Franz-cell d... Read More about A Permeapad assisted sample preparation workflow for the selective determination of anticonvulsants in human serum by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry..

Development of new sustainable approach in drug discovery: One-pot parallel synthetic strategy to minimise the environmental footprint May 1, 2024 - Apr 30, 2025
Over thousands of Medicinal Chemistry research groups around the world across academia, research-based institutions are involved in synthesizing libraries of compounds in the early drug discovery phase. During this synthetic process, massive amount o... Read More about Development of new sustainable approach in drug discovery: One-pot parallel synthetic strategy to minimise the environmental footprint.

The prevalence, sources and diversity of antibiotic resistant E. coli in Scottish surface waters: a baseline for risk assessment and intervention targets. Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2026
The alarming rise in resistance to antibiotics is now widely accepted as being one of the most serious public health crises we face today. The use and overuse of antibiotics in human and animal medicine and especially the overuse in animal food produ... Read More about The prevalence, sources and diversity of antibiotic resistant E. coli in Scottish surface waters: a baseline for risk assessment and intervention targets..

A Permeapad sample preparation workflow for the selective determination of anticonvulsants in human serum and urines by GC MS/MS. Jul 1, 2025 - Aug 31, 2025
The study will employ a Permeapad 96-well plate system, which mimics passive diffusion barriers found in the human body. Commercially available bovine serum and urine samples will be spiked with specific concentrations of the target anticonvulsants.... Read More about A Permeapad sample preparation workflow for the selective determination of anticonvulsants in human serum and urines by GC MS/MS..

Development of an immobilized artificial membrane liquid chromatography /mass spectrometry-based platform to assess the pulmonary permeability of drug candidates. Jun 12, 2023 - Aug 4, 2023
In this project, 53 analytes whose apparent permeability through Calu-3 cell line is known from the literature (Lin, Chiu, Wang, & Tung, 2022) will be studied by immobilized artificial membrane (IAM)- HPLC. Indeed, Berry and co-workers (Zemski Berry... Read More about Development of an immobilized artificial membrane liquid chromatography /mass spectrometry-based platform to assess the pulmonary permeability of drug candidates..

Estimating the effect of diseases on cattle productivity and GHG emission in smallholder dairy systems of low and middle-income countries Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024
The dairy industry is an emerging sector in many lower and middle-income countries (LMICs). Dairy products are essential for the nutrition, health, and livelihoods of millions of people across LMICs. However, the low efficiency of dairy systems poses... Read More about Estimating the effect of diseases on cattle productivity and GHG emission in smallholder dairy systems of low and middle-income countries.