British Skin Foundation Grant
Published: 5 February 2020
The Institute's Professor Sheila Graham, in collaboration with Dr Patricia Martin of Glasgow Caledonian University, has won funding to study the gap junction protein Connexin 43 in in normal and human papillomavirus-infected keratinocytes and in healing wounds.
Professor Sheila Graham has been awarded a British Skin Foundation Grant funding to study the gap junction protein Connexin 43 in in normal and human papillomavirus-infected keratinocytes and in healing wounds.
Founded in 1996, the British Skin Foundation is a UK charity that raises money to support research into all types of skin diseases and which has supported 400 research projects and awarded £16,000,000 in funding.
This award will fund a PhD studentship aimed at understanding the role of the Connexin43/Dlg1 protein complex in cell to cell communication in healing and non-healing wounds, and in human papillomavirus-infected cells
Prof Graham, Professor of Molecular Virology at the Centre for Virus Research, will be in close collaboration with Dr Patricia Martin, who works on Connexin 43 in inflammatory skin conditions at Glasgow Caledonian University.
First published: 5 February 2020