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.

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!

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/