Jeremy Henley, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience in the Department of Anatomy, has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant of over 鈧�2.1M for a study of SUMO, a protein that influences how brain cells communicate.
Two Bristol academics have received prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Merit Awards.
Two MSc Palaeobiology students in the Department of Earth Sciences have had notable successes in their work on the habits of some of the earliest mammals to have lived, some two hundred million years ago.
Dr Olena Doran in the School of Clinical Veterinary Science has won the award for the best oral presentation in the Genetics Commission at the European Association for Animal Production (EAAP) meeting in Antalya, Turkey.
Professor David Gordon of the School for Policy Studies and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research has been appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) by the Ministry of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has awarded three significant grants to the Department of Experimental Psychology.
Dr Maurizio Marinelli, Senior Lecturer in the Centre for East Asian Studies, and colleagues have been awarded a grant of 拢662,487 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a three-year research project entitled 鈥楥olonialism in comparative perspective: Tianjin under nine flags, 1860-1949鈥�.
Philip Pearson, an undergraduate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded a scholarship by the GE Foundation as part of its Scholar-Leaders Programme.
Beth Tarleton, a research fellow at the Norah Fry Research Centre, has received an Early Career Research Award from the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) for her work with parents with learning disabilities.
Professor Julian Paton has won a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, one of the Royal Society鈥檚 most prestigious awards.
