Category: Awards

The Manchester neuro-oncology service, hosted at Salford Royal Hospital (part of Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust) in partnership with The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, has again been recognised as a Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence for the care and treatment of patients with brain and spinal tumours.

Lindonlight Collective has awarded $1.97 million to our Chair of Translational Neuro-Oncology Professor Petra Hamerlik for her pioneering work on pediatric low-grade gliomas.

Translation Manchester has announced the Confidence for Translation (C4T) awardees. The call was extremely competitive and we’re proud to celebrate our colleagues at the Centre whose projects were awarded.

Dr Sasha Philbert has been awarded a prestigious 4-year Alzheimer’s Society Fellowship. Dr Philbert’s research aims to improve the diagnostic accuracy of vascular dementia by distinguishing it from early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.

The team aims to bring this cutting-edge technology to preclinical stroke research to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms of SD initiation and their involvement in worsening stroke severity. This work will be a crucial first step in the maturity of this technology towards future clinical translation where they anticipate that it will greatly facilitate management of patients in the neuro-intensive care units.

Funding has been awarded through the dual-award PhD programme between the University of Melbourne and University of Manchester. The dual-award scheme brings together research teams between the two institutions with a PhD student assigned to each. This is a highly competitive scheme with just six dual awards (twelve students) made across both Universities in all disciplines. For our researchers to secure two of these awards is therefore a fantastic achievement.