Research
Research Interest 1
Role of microenveronment in cancer initiation and progression
Research grants
MRes in Biomedical Sciences, Biology of Cancer Strand
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUND
January 2009 - December 2012
Four year PhD programme in Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2005 - September 2009
Gut-Brain Signalling: Roles of Lipid, Cholecystokinin and the Vagus Nerve in Man.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 1999 - October 2002
The neuroendocrinology of the upper gastrointestinal tract
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 1998 - September 2003
Bridging and accelerating the translation of novel scientific findings for health and wealth gain
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2014 - August 2015
Identification of patients at risk of gastric cancer
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH (UK)
February 2014 - January 2015
Quantitative high-throughput proteomics for biomedical research.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2005 - March 2008
The endocrinology of the upper gastrointestinal tract.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2003 - September 2008
Identification of novel stromal targets for early detection and targeted therapy in pancreatic and oesophageal cancer
CANCER RESEARCH UK (UK)
July 2010 - September 2011
Actions of cholecystokinin on vagal afferent neurons
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
December 2009 - January 2013
Vacation Scholarship. Characterisation of epithelial mesenchymal interactions in the oesophageus.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
July 2008 - September 2008
Regulated and deregulated secretion from primary myofibroblasts in gastric cancer.
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUND
October 2008 - September 2011
Myofibroblast control of oesophageal squamous cancer invasion: role of chemerin
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUND, NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH (UK)
February 2015 - December 2018
Maintaining functional integrity of gastric epithelium:identification of novel transcriptional mechanisms.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
March 2010 - June 2013
Nutrient modulation of vagal afferent signalling.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2006 - August 2009
Gut-brain signalling in man: modulation of the cholecystokinin-vagus nerve pathway.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2003 - September 2006
Bench fees for Hanan M Garalla
LIBYAN EMBASSY IN LONDON🚩
July 2013 - June 2016
Four-year PhD programme in cellular and molecular physiology.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2004 - September 2008
Four year PhD Programme (2008)
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2008 - December 2012
Importance of alternative pathway NF-κB signalling in Helicobacter-induced gastric carcinogenesis
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUND
January 2013 - September 2016
Validation and exploitation of biomarkers for identification of patients at risk of gastric cancer
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUND
November 2012 - October 2014
Application of automated, high-content, live-cell, fluorescence imaging in multidisciplinary studies of epithelial, neuronal and stem cell function.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2007 - March 2008
Identification of patients at risk of gastric cancer
ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST (UK)
April 2012 - September 2013
Four year PhD Programme in Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2000 - November 2004
Four year PhD Programme in Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2003 - September 2007
Developing a collaborative resource for ChIP based analyses of cancer related transcriptional networks
CANCER RESEARCH UK (UK)
April 2012 - March 2013
Towards disease diagnosis through spectrochemical imaging of tissue architecture.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 2013 - September 2016
Capacity building award in integrative mammalian biology
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2007 - October 2015
Investigation of the importance of the gastrin family of peptides and gastrin/CCKb receptor in inflammatory bowel disease.
NAT ASSOC FOR COLITIS & CROHNS DISEASE (UK)
September 2003 - September 2007
Investigation of the mechanisms by which progastrin promotes colonic carcinogenesis.
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUND
June 2006 - December 2010
YEAR 1 (part2) Wellcome Trust ISSF Non-Clinical Fellowships
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2012 - March 2023
How does the microbiome of the hypochlorhydric stomach promote gastric tumourigenesis?
WORLDWIDE CANCER RESEARCH (UK)
November 2012 - October 2015
The effect of gastrin on gastric tubulogenesis.
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 1999 - September 2003
Wellcome Trust 3 year PhD - cellular and molecular physiology
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2010 - September 2013
Identification of patients at risk of gastric cancer due to helicobacter pylori infection
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
September 2007 - March 2012
Role of MMP-7 in the pathogenesis of gastric cancer.
NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH FUND
November 2003 - November 2006
YEAR 1 Wellcome Trust ISSF Non-Clinical Fellowships
WELLCOME TRUST (UK)
October 2011 - May 2018
Research collaborations
Dan Palmer
Dr Peter Hegy
University of Szeged Medical School
Characterisation of epithelial & mesenchymal transporters in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Regulation of the stem cell niche in the GI tract.
Prof Tim Wang
Columbia University Medical & Irving Cancer Research Center , New York
Regulation of the gastric stem cell niche
Dr Mark Pritchard
Obtaining clinical samples.
Profs Dockray, Varro, and Dimaline
Collaboration on role of gastrin in gastrointestinal physiology
Profs Dockray, Varro and Dimaline
Dockray, Varro, Dimaline and group
Gastrin and apoptosis