We are pleased to announce that we received funding from Dunhill Medical Trust to study the role of a small leucine-rich protein in cartilage ageing and osteoarthritis progression. We are very grateful and thrilled for the next three years of exciting science!
Individual Fellowships are aimed at fellows who already have a doctorate or equivalent research experience. They help experienced researchers to advance their careers and gain new skills through advanced training, international mobility, and optional intersectoral secondments. European Fellowships are held in Member States and are open to researchers either coming to Europe or moving within Europe. Global Fellowships are based on a secondment to a third country and a compulsory 12 month return phase in a Europe host organisation. The proposal should be prepared by the researcher in cooperation with the applicant organisation, which is represented by the main supervisor. The call is now open and closes on the 12th of September 2019. For more details and to apply, click here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/msca-if-2019
Detailed informaiton on the call and how to apply can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/guides_for_applicants/h2020-guide-appl-msca-if-2018-20_en.pdf
Newcastle University is hosting an information and advice day on 13th of June 2019. For more information and to register, please click here: https://www.ukro.ac.uk/about-ukro/ukro-event/%7B782f4f00-0bfa-49e9-9317-ef927fb1d90b%7D/110
If you’re interested and would like to apply, please contact us and we can meet for a chat to discuss your project.
Kasia is visiting her alma mater this month!
If you’d like to catch up or see what she’s been up to since she left in 2002, please come to the WBBiB @JagiellonskiUni at 12 o’clock on Monday the 17th (room 1.01.13) and she will tell you all about it 🙂
Congratulations to Stephen Wing-Hon Chan, who received Newcastle University funding to join us this summer to look at the effect of compression on young and old chondrocytes in tissue engineered contstructs.
Well done Stephen, we’re looking forward to working with you!
Dr Suganya Natarajan from Anna University in Chennai will be joining our group in September 2019 for 3 months under the RUBICON project (http://rubicon-network.org) to look at oxidative stress in skeletal dysplasias.
Congratulations Suganya, we are looking forward to working with you soon!
Congratulations to all involved!
The paper should be out soon, and in the meantime, here’s a little teaser:
The BSMB “Young Investigator Award” is a prestigious award presented annually to an early career researcher who has made a significant contribution to matrix biology and has excelled in the early stages of their research career. Following the generous bequest from the estate of Professor John Scott (1931-2012), the winner of the Young Investigator Award is presented with a cheque for £1000, and delivers the ‘John Scott Lecture’ at one of the biannual meetings of the society.
The application deadline for the 2019 award is the 31st July. Early career researchers up to the age of 36 are encouraged to apply.
For more information and to apply, please click: https://bsmb.ac.uk/page/young-investigator-award/
Pint of Science is coming to Newcastle again!
An exciting programme of science focused talks in 6 city locations, all in relaxed atmosphere and with refreshments on hand! Come meet Newcastle scientists and see what is being studied in our beautiful city.
To see the programme and book your slot, please click here: https://pintofscience.co.uk/events/newcastle
We have just joined the organising committee of the British Society for Matrix Biology (BSMB) and we’ll be organising our own meeting here in Newcastle in 2022!
Check our website from time to time for more details, and if you’re not a BSMB member, please join, it’s a great society for students, PostDocs and PIs alike. The BSMB brings together scientists from the UK and the rest of the world with an interest in the extracellular matrix and it’s associated biology. They provide a forum for the exchange of ideas within the rapidly growing field of matrix biology and help promote the subject to the public at large. They also develop and nurture younger scientists with an interest in extracellular matrix biology, and provide travel and conference bursaries and awards for young scientists.
For more info, please visit: bsmb.ac.uk