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
Diabetes
Diabetic microangiopathy
1996 – 1999 Manchester University, Dr R Boot-Handford
Development of an in vitro model of diabetic membrane thickening, a key process in the development of diabetic blindness and kidney damage, using the microscopic organism, Hydra. An alternative to experiments on rats and mice genetically altered to develop diabetes.
Diabetes and microcirculation
1995 – 1997 Exeter University, Dr A Shore
Application of laser Doppler perfusion imaging to study microcirculation in diabetic patients, replacing experiments on genetically altered mice and rats.
Pancreatic cell line and diabetes
1985 Aston University, Dr T Atkins
Establishment of a pure strain of pancreas cells that continue to produce insulin in culture. Removing the need to perform experiments on mice and rats genetically modified and bred to suffer from diabetes.