IGM and ICM scientists involved in the MRC funded CIMA (Centre for Integrated research into Musculoskeletal Ageing) project have organised an informative public engagement afternoon on Wednesday the 20th of June 2018 to chat to the members of the public about joints in health and disease, joint diseases and the impact of diet and exercise on joints’ health. The attendance is FREE, full programme attached below:
The BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) Challenge is hosted annually by the Rare Genomics Institute and is open globally to researchers, foundations, or anyone whose research is constrained due to limited resources. It provides technology and financial grants for rare disease research. Families with a child afflicted with a rare disease have the opportunity to work with a network of academic researchers to develop research proposals tailored to advancing treatments for their child’s disease.
We just heard that our group won the technology prize in the 2017/18 competition. The prize is a vector constructed by Cyagen (worth $8,950) which will be used to generate a conditional knock-out mouse model that will greatly enhance our sudies of skeletal dysplasias. We are very grateful for this prize and we’re looking forward to the exciting project ahead!
Beth Gibson (our PhD student) is back from her RUBICON secondment in Hong Kong. Beth had a successful and productive secondment analysing the spinal phenotype of two mouse models of aggrecanopathies, and particiapted in several meetings and conferecnces including the Little People of Hong Kong society. We would like to thank Danny and his lab for hosting Beth and look forward to future collaboration.
We had a great time, hope you enjoyed it too!
Our International Rare Disease Day event is back!
Save the date and come see us on Saturday the 24th February for a fun afternoon filled with science and cake 🙂
To book your FREE place, click here
Congratulations to Dr Ella Dennis, our first Newcastle PhD. Well done! 🙂
On the 31st of October 2017 we are organising a research showcase in collaboration with Findacure. Members of the public, patient organisations, clinical researchers and scientists all wellcome, please see below for details.
On the 27th September we had a lovely visit from Prof Anders Aspberg from Lund University and Dr Evalena Stattin from University of Uppsala to discuss the aggrecan project and Beth Gibson’s visit to Sweden to perform mass spectrometry and uCT analyses.
Our PhD student, Beth Gibson, won a presentation prize at the Gordon’s Research Seminar, a prestigeous conference for young investigators in musculoskeletal research. There were 21 presenters this year (graduate students and postdocs). The programme of the conference can be found here.
Beth Gibson, our PhD student, will be talking about her research at the Pint of Science festival in Newcastle! Come have a drink with us after work and chat about what interests you about the genetic research in the North East.
