This College Scholarships Minority project aims to develop unique CNS tissue models and then use them to address specific neuroscience questions. It is funded jointly by the OU and TAP Biosystems and will involve an innovative platform technology (RAFT™) for the generation of complex 3D model tissues. These College Scholarships Minority will be used to monitor the responses of neurons and glia to simulated damage, and to test the effectiveness of this novel approach as a screening technology for potential neuroprotective therapies.
College Scholarships Minority Developing this exciting new technology and applying it to neuroscience research will involve close collaboration between scientists and engineers in academia and industry. The multi-disciplinary project will be based in the well-equipped biomedical research laboratories at the OU in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, in collaboration with TAP Biosystems in Royston, Hertfordshire. College Scholarships Minority Applicants should have a good honours degree in a relevant subject and an interest in interdisciplinary research leading to commercially viable tissue substitute systems.
Scholarship Application Deadline:20/05/2011
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