wellcome fellows update

In the summer and autumn of 2004, eight scientists joined the ranks of the Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellows – one of the Trust’s most competitive and prestigious schemes. The eight researchers are:

Basic biomedical science

Daniel van Aalten (University of Dundee)

Structural biology and inhibitor design on chitin metabolism

Sophie Scott (University College London)

Neuroanatomy of speech perception: clinical and cognitive reactions

Heather Cordell (University of Cambridge)

Development of statistical methodology for detection and characterisation of genetic factors in complex disease

Richard Kammerer (University of Manchester)

Elucidating the mechanisms of angiopoietin function and amyloid formation by protein engineering and de novo design

E Allison Green (University of Cambridge)

Inflammation and the perpetuation, or control, of autoimmune disease

David Bannerman (University of Oxford)

Dissecting hippocampal function – multiple cellular mechanisms, multiple subregions and multiple functions

Clinical science

Dr Hugo Critchley (University College London)

Pychophysiological mechanisms underlying psychological and physical morbidity

Dr Julian Knight (Wellcome Trust Centre for

Human Genetics, University of Oxford)

Characterisation of genetic variation regulating gene expression within the MHC class III region