Grants
Illustrated below are recent high profile grants obtained within the research group. These form a significant part of a larger portfolio of research grant income that amounts to £4.7 million per annum.
Double BBSRC - LOLA success within the SFS research group:
Understanding how RNA interacting proteins modulate the translatability of mRNAs
Professor Simon Hubbard and Dr Paul Sims from the Structural and Functional Systems Research Group together with Drs Graham Pavitt, Mark Ashe and Chris Grant have been awarded £2,847,862 by BBSRC to fund a study entitled "Understanding how RNA interacting proteins modulate the translatability of mRNAs".
Email: simon.hubbard@manchester.ac.uk
Dynamics of enzyme catalysed reactions
MIB-Photon Science collaboration secures £3 million BBSRC LoLa grant to study dynamics of enzyme catalysed reactions. This provides long term (5 year) funding for one of the core research activities of the molecular enzymology group. This is to fund a network of scientists (Scrutton, Sutcliffe, Leys, Heyes, DeVisser, Micklefield, Gardner, Muller-Dethelfs and McPherson).
Email: nigel.scrutton@manchester.ac.uk
ERC funding:
Breathing chlorinated compounds: unravelling the biochemistry underpinning(de)halorespiration, an exciting bacterial metabolism with significant bioremediation potential.
Dr. David Leys was awarded a 5-year ERC starting grant (€1.114.000) to work on: Breathing chlorinated compounds: unravelling the biochemistry underpinning (de)halorespiration, an exciting bacterial metabolism with significant bioremediation potential.
Email: david.leys@manchester.ac.uk