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
Pain studies
Pain control
2009 – 2012 Manchester University, Prof A Jones & Dr W El-Deredy
A brand new approach to developing pain therapies based on a better understanding of pain control in patients. Developing alternatives to highly painful experiments usually conducted on mice, rats and monkeys.
Neuroimaging
2007– 2010 Aston University Professor P Furlong
Functional neuroimaging and the pharmacokinetics of pain. As an alternative to animal experiments in mice, rats and monkeys.
Pain and analgesics
2002 – 2005 Oxford University, Prof I Tracey & Prof P Matthews
Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to study changes in the human brain and spinal cord, in response to pain and painkilling drugs, as a humane alternative to invasive pain experiments on mice, rats and dogs.
Arthritic pain
1996 – 1999 Manchester University, Dr A Jones & Dr P Youell
Development of a computer-controlled laser simulator for human pain research, and its use in conjunction with brain imaging technologies (EEG, PET, and fMRI) to study pain in human volunteers. New approaches to understanding human pain and developing pain control therapies without experiments on animals, such as mice, rats, cats and monkeys.