Medical research
- Ageing
- Alzheimer's disease
- Asthma
- Brain signalling
- Cancer (breast)
- Cancer (lung)
- Cancer (skin)
- Cancer (brain)
- Cancer (general)
- Cataracts
- Cystic fibrosis
- Diabetes
- Diet and health
- Drug clearance
- Drug metabolism
- Epilepsy
- Foetal studies
- Heart disease
- HIV
- Huntington's disease
- Intestinal infections
- Kidney failure
- Liver disease
- Lung diseases
- Multiple sclerosis
- Meningitis
- Migraine
- Orthodontics
- Pain studies
- Parkinson's disease
- Rheumatism
- Sepsis
- Sleeping sickness
- Vascular disorders
- Whooping cough
- Wound healing
Cancer (brain)
Neurofibromatosis
2008 – 2011 Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, Prof CO Hanemann
A primary human in vitro model to test and translate new therapies for Neurofibromatosis Type 2 tumours into clinical trials as an alternative to mouse experimentation.
Brain tumour invasion
2004 – 2007 Portsmouth University, Prof G Pilkington
Production and evaluation of three-dimensional live cell imaging models for the study of novel brain tumour therapies. An alternative to invasive brain investigations in mice and rats.
Brain tumour therapy
1999 – 2000 King’s College, London, Prof G Pilkington
Human cell culture investigation of the potential of naturally-occurring citrus flavonoids as a brain tumour therapy replacing the need for animal experimentation in large numbers of mice and rats.
Brain tumour invasion
1995 – 1997 Queen’s University, Belfast, Dr D McCormick
An investigation of the role of cysteine proteinases in human brain tumour invasion, using an in vitro model. Replacing highly invasive experiments in monkeys and other non-human primates.