BSGT Visiting Fellow Travel Award
BSGT Travel Award Visiting Fellows 2008
Dr Sayandip Mukherjee (Institute of Child Health) was chosen to receive the second
BSGT Travel Award. Dr Mukherjee will visit the laboratory of Dr Juan Bueren at
CIEMAT, Madrid to set up a collaboration for the application of non-integrating
lentiviral vectors to generate stem cells from fibroblasts derived from a mouse
model of X-CGD.
BSGT Travel Award Visiting Fellows 2007
The recipients of the first BSGT Travel Award were Dr Steven Howe (Institute of
Child Health) and Dr Fiona Wilkinson (University of Manchester).
Dr Howe visited the laboratory of Drs. David Williams and Mick Milsom of the
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre, CCHMC, USA in order to advance a
project examining the use of non-integrating lentiviral vectors to manipulate
stem cell growth, survival and biology through transient expression of HOXB4.
Read the report.
Dr Wilkinson will initiate a collaborative project with Prof John Hopwood and
Dr Kim Hemsley of the Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit (LDRU), Women's and
Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia in Adelaide. This project will
investigate the use of lentiviral vectors for autologous stem cell gene therapy
for Mucopolysaccharide diseases. Read the report.