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Professor Caceres receives inaugural Wellcome Trust Award.
June 2011
Professor Javier Caceres has been awarded one of the inaugural Investigator Awards from the Wellcome Trust to pursue his work on the role of RNA-binding proteins in regulating gene expression and how alterations to RNA processing mechanisms can contribute to human disease. Investigator Awards provide funding for scientists with an excellent track record and in an established post. The awards offer the flexibility and time to enable them to tackle important research questions.
The Wellcome Trust has appointed 27 Investigators (7 New Investigators and 20 Senior Investigators). Most of the Investigators are based at institutions across the UK - from London to Liverpool and Edinburgh to Manchester - and one is a researcher in Brazil. The awards will range from around £1 million to £3m.
Dr Caceres is a Principal Investigator at the MRC Human Genetics Unit (MRC HGU, Edinburgh) and an Honorary Professor at the School of Molecular & Clinical
Medicine, University of Edinburgh. His laboratory based at the Chromosomes and Gene Expression Section (MRC HGU) is interested on the regulation of gene expression. Their focus is on the role of RNA-binding proteins (RNABPs) in gene expression and how alterations to RNA processing mechanisms can contribute to human disease. This represents the only award to an Investigator based in Scotland during this first round of applications.
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Development Biology Group Prize.
July 2011
Judith Reichmann, a PhD student in Dr Ian Adams' research group, Chromosomes and Gene Expression section, won a prize for her talk at the Scottish Developmental Biology Group Meeting in St. Andrews on Friday 1st June 2011.
Judith presented data describing how the Tex19.1 gene promotes genetic and chromosomal stability in mouse germ cells.
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