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
Cataracts
Human lens cell lines
1996 – 2000 Dundee University, Dr A Prescott & Dr R Quinlan
Development of an in vitro human lens differentiation system to study cataractogenesis. An alternative to using pigs, sheep and cows.
Cataracts
1996 – 2000 Dundee University
Establishment of long-lived human lens cell cultures for test-tube studies of cataract development, as an alternative to experiments on the eyes of chicks, frogs, rabbits and monkeys.