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Dr Aphrodite Vasilaki
BSc, PhD, FHEA

Contact

Vasilaki@liverpool.ac.uk

+44 (0)151 794 9069

Research

Research grants

Atilla Emre Altinpinar/ 201630914 (bench fees)

TURKISH EMBASSY (LONDON)

September 2022 - August 2026

Almoatasm Balah S M Saltan/201590645 (bench fees)

LIBYAN EMBASSY IN LONDON🚩

September 2022 - September 2026

An interdisciplinary ageing alliance: cellular metabolism over a life-course in socioeconomic disadvantaged populations

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

February 2022 - February 2024

The role of circadian rhythms in Collagen VI related Myopathies

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY UK - MDUK (UK)

July 2022 - November 2024

Bench fees for Ufuk Ersoy / 201443759

TURKISH EMBASSY (LONDON)

February 2021 - January 2025

Resident senescent cells drive the ageing phenotype of skeletal muscle

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING (UK)

September 2015 - October 2019

2014 allocation - Wellcome ISSF non clinical fellowships

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

May 2015 - October 2018

Determining the mechanism responsible for frailty in older people: opportunities for novel interventions.

THE TERESA ROSENBAUM GOLDEN CHARITABLE TRUST (THE ROSETREES TRUST) (UK)

October 2016 - September 2019

microRNA-based interventions against loss of muscle mass and function resulting from in utero and early post-natal protein restriction

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

May 2017 - April 2020

Neuromuscular redox homeostasis in mice lacking SOD1 and aging wild type mice

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (USA)

September 2016 - April 2022

Maternal protein intake as a determinant of the total number of motor units and muscle fibres

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (UK)

November 2014 - October 2015

Deficits in motor nerve function mediate failed muscle regeneration during ageing.

RESEARCH INTO AGEING

February 2010 - March 2013

Motor unit remodelling contributes to the age-related loss of skeletal muscle fibres

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

June 2015 - June 2018

Denervation of small numbers of fibres during ageing leads to dysregulation of ROS and functional changes in whole skeletal muscles

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2013 - March 2016