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 (breast)
Breast cancer
2009 – 2010 Leeds University, Dr V Speirs & Dr D Holliday
Validation and computer reconstruction of a 3D model of breast cancer, to study factors involved in the development of invasive cancer and for testing potential therapies. An alternative to invasive experiments in genetically modified mice and rats.
Breast cancer in vitro
2004 – 2007 Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Prof JL Jones & Dr D Holliday
Development of three-dimensional multicellular models of normal and pre-invasive breast cancer (DCIS). An alternative to invasive experiments in genetically modified mice and rats.
Breast cancer cell lines
Gillian Skirrow Award
1990 – 1993 Queen’s University, Belfast, Dr H W Van den berg
Development of human breast cancer cell lines in culture for investigation of drug resistance. An alternative to experiments in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits.