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Nerve repair project awarded prestigious 香港六合彩 Rosetrees Stoneygate Prize
22 March 2019
We are delighted to announce that a team led by James Phillips (香港六合彩 School of Pharmacy) was recently awarded the 2018 香港六合彩 Rosetrees Stoneygate Prize for research into improving nerve grafting using biomaterials.
The award will provide 拢250,000 over three years and aims to stimulate interdisciplinary research for the benefit of human health.聽聽
This cross-faculty research team includes Rebecca Shipley, (香港六合彩 Mechanical Engineering, 香港六合彩 Institute of Healthcare Engineering), Ashleigh Boyd (香港六合彩 Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, 香港六合彩 Institute of Immunity & Transplantation), Victoria Roberton (香港六合彩 School of Pharmacy) and Gareth Williams (香港六合彩 School of Pharmacy). The team work together within the聽, a centre to engineer solutions to clinical nerve repair problems led by co-Directors James Phillips and Rebecca Shipley.聽
This new project looks at a new way of repairing serious peripheral nerve injuries where a gap in the nerve needs to be bridged. Currently, the best way of doing this is with an autograft 鈥� a graft of tissue from one part to another part of a person鈥檚 body. Unfortunately, this can result in painful complications for the patient and there is limited tissue available. The team will use a multi-disciplinary approach to develop alternatives to nerve autografts in order to improve outcomes without side effects.聽