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MVLS Translational Research Update – May 2024

Published: 18 May 2021

Job Opportunities Workshop and Training TRI Support MVLS Translational Research Highlights

The Translational Research Initiative (TRI) would like to bring to your attention the following funding opportunities, seminars, events, workshops and support opportunities.

Funding Opportunities

MVLS IEE Public Engagement Delivery Fund - Closing soon

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new MVLS IEE Public Engagement Delivery Fund. This is an open call for all MVLS staff and PhD students to support the development and delivery of public engagement with research activities. Funding is provided by the MVLS Innovation, Engagement and Enterprise team.

Apply for up to £500 for delivery costs such as materials, equipment, and marketing. This is a rolling call, open until Wednesday 15th May 2024.

More information on the fund, including the application process, eligibility and assessment criteria can be found below:

MVLS IEE Public Engagement Delivery Fund and Online Application.

MRC Small Molecule High Throughput Screening using AstraZeneca facilities

The MRC is offering funding to use AstraZeneca's state-of-the-art facilities and vast compound library to run a high-throughput drug screen (HTS). Key benefits include:

Unparalleled access: Screen over 2 million molecules for potential drug candidates and access AstraZeneca's state-of-the-art HTS facilities.

Expert guidance: Optimise your assay with technical support from AstraZeneca.

Funding available: Up to £270,000 to cover research costs and staff exchange over 12-18 months.

Focus area for this round is Fibrosis & Extracellular Matrix Targets. There will be two funding rounds per year with future areas of focus including:

Autoimmunity; Pain; Motor Neuron Disease; Mental Health; Dementias; Women's Health (Metabolic Disorders).

For more details, please click this link: Small molecule High Throughput Screen using AstraZeneca facilities – UKRI

Application deadline: Thursday 4th July 2024, 4 pm

Seminar Series

Women Researcher's Enterprise Network (WREN) presents: Anastacia Ryan

Please join us for our upcoming Women Researcher’s Enterprise Network event featuring Dr Anastacia Ryan.

Anastacia Ryan has researched and been an advocate for marginalised women for over a decade in various roles at national, regional and international level. Following completion of her PhD, Anastacia took up an international role focused on health and HIV. This involved working with community-based organisations across Africa, South East Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, developing community leadership in health and HIV programming and supporting the in-country roll out of global best practice guidance. Anastacia then founded a nationwide charity, which operated for six years providing holistic support to women at the margins, whilst influencing policy and practice through amplifying women's lived experience and voices.

In returning to University of Glasgow as a lecturer, Anastacia is now in the process of redeveloping the charity into a social enterprise. Named ‘SISU’, meaning ‘Resilience through Adversity’ in Finnish, the enterprise creates an alternative system of care and support for women who find current services deficient. SISU aims to combine academic evidence with women’s lived expertise, whilst co-creating training and toolkits for practitioners in the care, support and justice sectors in Scotland, and to raise vital funds for the frontline holistic support of women at the margins.

Come along to hear about a fascinating, ongoing journey through academia, activism and social entrepreneurship, with some trials and tribulations along the way!

Please book your ticket via Eventbrite - and find out more about The WREN Network and our events here.

When: Thursday 23rd May, 4 - 5 pm (with time for drinks and further conversations from 5 - 5.30pm)

Where: Room 226a - Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow

Intellectual Property Property Seminar Series #1 - Introduction to IP (repeat event)

The University of Glasgow’s IP & Commercialisation (IP&C) Team is delighted to announce a series of seven talks by leading patent attorneys covering a broad range of IP topics: IP basics, AI/Software/Open Source, Quantum Tech, Digital Health & Medtech, Therapeutics, Diagnostics & Biomarkers, and Advanced Materials.

Turning research outcomes into new businesses, products, and services is one of the primary ways in which the University of Glasgow delivers meaningful social, economic, and environmental impact beyond academia. Intellectual Property (IP) is critical to this activity – many potential industrial partners and investors will only collaborate or provide funding with appropriate IP protection in place. This means IP is of enormous and growing importance for generating impact.

In this series of in-person introductory talks, highly experienced patent attorneys from Mewburn Ellis will explore the basics of IP protection and its critical role in generating impact. Ample time will be devoted to questions and discussion. These talks are open to all members of the University community, but people who have not previously contacted the IP & Innovation Team are especially welcome. All events will be in-person giving an opportunity to ask questions and discuss with a patent attorney and the University of Glasgow’s IP&C Team. If you have any questions, or there’s anything we can do to make these events more accessible for you, please email innovation@glasgow.ac.uk.

IP Seminar #1 (repeat event): Introduction to IP, June 5th - to register for this seminar, please click here.

When: Wednesday 5th June 2024, 1 - 3 pm

Where: Online only

School of Cancer Sciences IEE Webinar Series

The School of Cancer Sciences Innovation, Engagement and Enterprise (IEE) Webinar series returns with the following seminars over the next fortnight. All are welcome to join, and please use the Zoom link below for both seminars:

Prof. Naveed Sattar - Obesity / Prof. Imran Ahmad - Robotic surgery

Time/date: Wednesday 15th May 2024, 12 pm – 12.30 pm

Prof. Anthony Chalmers - Glioblastoma / Prof. Jonathan Cavanagh - Collaborative functional imaging

Time/date: Wednesday 22nd May 2024, 12 pm – 12.30 pm

Location: Zoom link: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/84912303729?pwd=d1paTzRRMGptOTJYd0NwQVZQS0c5dz09

Meeting ID: 849 1230 3729

Passcode: 727240

Workshops, Training and Support

Post-Academic Network Event (PACMAN 6.0)

Are you a post-graduate student or researcher within MVLS? Are you considering a career outwith academia?

Then please join us in the afternoon of Friday 31st May to meet former academics who can offer advice on how they made the leap to a rewarding and fulfilling post-academic career.

Please book now as spaces are limited! FREE registration. Tea, coffee, and snacks provided. Professional photographer available to take profile photos for your professional and social media accounts.

When: Friday 31st May, 1 - 3.30 pm

Where: Researcher Development Suite, Ground Floor, Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow

Where: Online (Teams)

Glasgow Tech Week

As Scotland's first Tech Week, Glasgow Tech Week will bring together founders, tech leaders, ecosystem builders, and the community, to celebrate the innovative work taking place within Glasgow’s tech, digital and creative ecosystem. Glasgow City Innovation District has partnered with global businesses and SMEs across the city for a week of breakfast seminars, educational workshops, networking evenings and more.

Join us for a week of incredible, unique events as we cover everything from investment and business support to pitching, health tech and space.

Please use this link for a list of events: https://www.glasgowcityinnovationdistrict.com/glasgowtechweek/

When: Monday 13th to Saturday 18th May 2024

SPRE Workshop: Building academic and policy connections

The Scottish Policy and Research Exchange (SPRE) are looking to bring together academics across a broad range of institutions, disciplines and career stages who have an interest in policy engagement, into a co-learning and networking space with analysts and policymakers from Scottish Government.

This workshop will help improve collective understanding of how academic-policy engagement practice can be improved, and to connect ‘new voices’ with the ‘right’ people in Scottish Government. You do not need to have any prior experience in policy engagement to join this event.

Please register here to secure your place!

When: Thursday 13th June 2024, 2 - 4 pm

Where: Online (Teams)

UK Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Inward Mission (hosted by Innovate UK)

Innovate UK are delighted to welcome a carefully selected delegation of international AMR organisations to the UK, to showcase the UK ecosystem and to meet like-minded UK businesses. This event will provide the opportunity for researchers to connect directly with industry representatives to discuss research and potential collaborations and learn about relevant funding opportunities for AMR research.

The programme offers the latest in AMR from the UK including best practice presentations, funding support, facilities tours and matchmaking sessions with UK and international delegates for collaborative innovation.

Presentations, tours and pre-booked matchmaking sessions with international and UK delegates. Find out more about the Glasgow Agenda. Please register here.

When: Monday 3rd June 2024, 9 am – 5 pm

Where: Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (MMIC), Glasgow

Clinical 1-to-1 drop-in sessions

The TRI are offering a translational research regulatory support scheme, aimed to provide interested researchers with personalised regulatory support from expert consultants. This initiative provides applicants with the opportunity to attend a 1-1 session with therapeutics and clinical device regulatory experts, who can provide tailored guidance and support on the regulatory requirements of clinical translational projects. Interested researchers are invited to submit a short application along with their questions to Dr Michaela Petaroudi, and successful applicants will be invited to attend an online meeting with the regulatory consultant. In case further support is needed, eligible researchers will be offered with the option to attend a follow-up session.

Who should attend? This event is open to all University of Glasgow research staff of all levels, who are actively involved in translational projects and have identified specific areas where regulatory support or advice is required.

Please email Dr Michaela Petaroudi to book or to register interest.

Case Studies and Information

Translational Case Studies

PACMAN Networking Event - Bridging academia and industry for early-career researchers.
PDE4 PROTACs - Industry collaboration with BioTheryX to explore the therapeutic properties of PROTAC bio-tools.

MVLS Informational Videos

Translational Research Initiative - A series of videos on aspects of translational research and what support is available at the University of Glasgow.