2019 Outcome

The BSGCT would like to congratulate the successful applicants for our Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme 2019.  Congratulations to:

Hester Chu, UCL School of Pharmacy, who undertook a summer project entitled “Developing AAV for gene therapy for ACTA2 vascular disorder” under the supervision of Dr Joanne Ng at the UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health.

Holly Ellard, University of Bath, who undertook a summer project entitled “Developing AAV-mediated gene transfer into human saphenous vein bypass grafts” under the supervision of Prof Andrew Baker at the University of Edinburgh.

2018 Outcome

The BSGCT would like to congratulate the successful applicant for our Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme 2018.  Congratulations to:

Wojciech Lason, University College London (UCL) who will undertake a summer project entitled “Quantifying the immune checkpoint signalling landscape in cancer for improved predictions of response to immunotherapy” under the supervision of Dr.Maria Secrier at University College London (UCL).

BSGCT would like to take this opportunity to wish the successful student and supervisors all the best for their summer research projects. Details of the 2019 scheme will be announced in January 2019.

2017 Outcome

The BSGCT would like to congratulate the successful applicant for our Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme 2017.  Congratulations to:

Andrei Claudiu Cozmescu, University College London (UCL) who will undertake a summer project entitled “Setting up a potency assay for the development of a gene therapy product for argininosuccinic aciduria” under the supervision of Dr. Dany Perocheau at University College London (UCL).

2016 Outcome

The BSGCT would like to congratulate the successful applicant for our Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme 2016.  Congratulations to:

Rivani Shah, University College London (UCL) who will undertake a summer project entitled “An evaluation of lentiviral mediated gene delivery to Schwann cells for the purpose of tissue engineering” under the supervision of Dr Ahad Rahim at University College London (UCL).

2015 Outcome

The BSGCT would like to congratulate the successful applicants for our Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme 2015
Congratulations to:

Marina Safeer, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) who will undertake a summer project entitled ” DNA self-assembled scaffold with dual functionality; cell and gene delivery platform” under the supervision of Dr Alvaro Mata at the Institute for Bioengineering, QMUL.

Jiayi Zhang, University College London who will undertake a summer project entitled “Synthetic viruses capsid design: new tools to improve nuclear transport of plasmid DNA” under the supervision of Professor Giuseppe Battaglia,University College London.

2014 Outcome

The BSGCT would like to congratulate the successful applicants for our Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme 2014
Congratulations to:

William Bennet, University of Portsmouth who will undertake a summer project entitled “Development of CRISPR/Cas technology for efficient site-specific integration of genes into the human genome” under the supervision of Professor Len Seymour at University of Oxford.

David Preston, University of Leeds who will undertake a summer project entitled “Investigating the potential role of circadian rhythm in adenovirus-mediated gene therapy” under the supervision of Professor Eric Blair at University of Leeds.

2013 Outcome

The BSGCT and Nuffield Foundation would like to congratulate the successful applicants for our Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme!

Congratulations to:

Natalie Cox, Cardiff University to be supervised by Dr Alan Parker at Cardiff University on a project entitled “Identification of cancer stem cell binding oligopeptides and incorporation into the Ad5 fiber region”

Yusef Eamon Badi, Queen Mary University to be supervised by Dr Petra Disterer at UCL on a project entitled “Treatment of Acromegaly using Growth Hormone Receptor Truncation by Alternative Splicing”

Benedikt Thomas Best, Imperial College to be supervised by Dr Claire Booth at UCL on a project entitled “Lineage restricted SAP transgene expression – development of a vector suitable for clinical trial in X-linked lymphoproliferative disease”

Thomas Watkins, Cardiff University to be supervised by Dr John Bridgeman at Cardiff University on a project entitled “Generation of CD8 variants for optimising adoptive T-cell therapy”.

2012 Outcome

The BSGCT and Nuffield Foundation would like to congratulate the successful applicants for our inaugural Undergraduate Research Placement Scheme!

Congratulations to;

Micheal McDonald, University of Glasgow who will undertake a summer project entitled “Role for the adenovirus hexon in gene transfer” under the supervision of Professor Andrew Baker at University of Glasgow.

Ellyn Hughes, Cardiff University who will undertake a summer project entitled “A critical comparison of T-cell receptor modifications for improving gene-modified autologous T-cell transfer” under the supervison of early career researcher Dr. John Bridgeman at Cardiff University.

Gary Duncan, University of Glasgow who will undertake a summer project entitled “In vivo and in vitro validation of haemogenic endothelial cell microRNA expression profile” with early career researcher Dr. Nicole Kane at the Institute of Child Health, UCL.

Katherine-Linsey Collins-Taylor, University of Glasgow who will undertake a summer project entitled “Assessment of genotoxic risk by computational analysis of lentiviral integration sites” with Dr Chris Boyd at the University of Edinburgh.