Congratulations to Bungo Akiyoshi (Gull lab) who has been awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. Dr Akiyoshi will be studying chromosome segregation, a mechanism that occurs in all living cells each time they divide. Errors in this process lead to birth defects and diseases such as cancer. By studying the mechanism in the parasitic organism Trypanosoma brucei, Dr Akiyoshi hopes to better understand the molecular basis of this process and develop therapeutics for human sleeping sickness, a devastating disease in Africa caused by infection with the parasite.
Ten researchers from the UK and beyond (two from the Dunn School) have been awarded Sir Henry Dale Fellowships to tackle issues crucial to our understanding of the molecules and cells vital to life and our fight against some of our major diseases – from the mechanisms underlying how our cells divide and how we process sound to how influenza viruses circulate in Vietnam.
The fellowships were named after Sir Henry Dale (1875-1968), a Nobel Prize winner and one of the most eminent biomedical scientists of the 20th century. Sir Henry was formerly Chairman of the Wellcome Trust and President of the Royal Society. The fellowships aim to provide the brightest biomedical scientists with the best possible start to their independent research careers in the