In February 2014 Life Sciences Research Network Wales launched a Postdoctoral project grant (fellowship) round. Project Grants are specifically aimed at allowing academics to undertake preliminary speculative research with the ultimate goal of providing the exemplification data to submit a major research application. The Network has confirmed funding to 11 research projects. These include (PI and title):

• Prof Jiang, Evaluation of Transglutaminase-4 as a therapeutic and target and diagnostic tool in human prostate cancer.
• Dr Bugert, Mechanism of action of [L] ddBCNAs as novel cell-targeting antivirals
• Dr Prokopovich, Nanocarrier controlled delivery of antibiotics from acrylic bone cement
• Prof. Clarke, Developing a stem-cell containing 3D culture model for pre-clinical studies of colorectal cancer therapeutics
• Dr Gwenin, Optimising cellular uptake of enzyme/gold-coated magnetic nanoparticle conjugates
• Dr Huws, Further prospecting and characterisation of novel antimicrobials from bovine metagenomes
• Prof. Conlan, Nanoparticle delivery of epigenetic modifiers: a targeted approach for Endometrial Cancer treatment.
• Prof. Dyson, Bacterial-mediated RNA interference as a new therapy to target advanced prostate cancer.
• Dr Fallis, Multi-Modal Theranostics (MMTs) – Towards Personalized Cancer Therapies
• Dr Cai, Targeting αB-crystallin (CRYAB): A possible novel strategy to impede triple-negative breast cancer growth
• Dr Jenkins, Development of human liver tissue models for drug safety assessment.

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