{"id":2342,"date":"2015-01-30T12:38:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2015-01-30T12:38:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:38:53","slug":"institute-of-clinical-sciences-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2015\/01\/30\/institute-of-clinical-sciences-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute of Clinical Sciences update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2015\/01\/Jean-Baptiste-Vannier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2343\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2015\/01\/Jean-Baptiste-Vannier.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Baptiste Vannier\" \/><\/a>ERC Starting Grant awarded to Jean-Baptiste Vannier<\/span><\/strong>\u2013 Jean-Baptiste Vannier was awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant of \u20ac1.5 million for five years. He was selected from 3,273 applicants (9 % success rate). ERC Starting Grants support up-and-coming scientists who are about to establish a new research team and start conducting independent research. Jean-Baptiste, who joined the CSC in the autumn from CRUK, will investigate the role of telomeres in DNA replication. When telomeres fail to fold into these structures, the genome becomes unstable, which is a hallmark of every cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2344\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2015\/01\/vahid_sam.jpg\" alt=\"vahid_sam\" \/>Synergy: Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant awarded to CSC and Imperial College Researchers<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Vahid Shahrezaei from the Mathematics department at Imperial College and Sam Marguerat from the CSC\u2019s Quantitative Gene Expression Group will be leading the \u00a3250,173 award to investigate noise in gene expression using single cells. The collaboration will unite Marguerat\u2019s experimental skills with Shahrezaei\u2019s theoretical knowledge in order to gain insight into the process of stochastic gene expression and protein noise, which describes the fluctuating number of molecules inside cells that causes seemingly identical cells to behave differently.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Link between COX-2 inhibitors and cardiovascular risk explained<\/span><\/strong>\u2013 Research news article on why COX-2 inhibitors, a class of widely prescribed anti-inflammatories, may lead to increased risk of heart attacks and strokes (published in <em>Circulation<\/em> by James Leiper\/Jane Mitchell, Imperial\/NHLI;\u00a0reference:\u00a0Blerina Ahmetaj-Shala, Nicholas S. Kirkby et al. \u2018Evidence That Links Loss Of Cyclo-oxygenase-1 2 With Increased Asymmetric Dimethylarginine: Novel Explanation of Cardiovascular Side Effects Associated With Anti-inflammatory Drugs.\u2019 Circulation, 9 December 2014. doi: <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/early\/2014\/12\/05\/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.011591.abstract\">10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.011591<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Almut Caspary<\/strong><br \/>\nInstitute of Clinical Science<br \/>\nFaculty of Medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERC Starting Grant awarded to Jean-Baptiste Vannier\u2013 Jean-Baptiste Vannier was awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant of \u20ac1.5 million for five years. He was selected from 3,273 applicants (9 % success rate). ERC Starting Grants support up-and-coming scientists who are about to establish a new research team and start conducting independent research. 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