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Soraya Shirazi-Beechey

Professor Soraya Shirazi-Beechey
BSc., PhD,HonAssocRCVS

Research

Major Research Interests

Comparative gastrointestinal physiology; Intestinal nutrient transport and regulation; Nutrient sensing and signalling in the intestinal epithelium; Nutrition; Gut microbiota and host interactions in health/disease.

Research grants

Restoration of luminal fluidity and microbiota in the CF gut (CFGI-SRC)

CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRUST (UK)

June 2017 - March 2023

A new generation of Crystallographic detector for Multi-user Barkla X-ray laboratory

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

July 2017 - July 2018

Assessments of fish gut microbiota during development, and in response to environmental and dietary change

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2015 - April 2018

Four Year PhD Programme in Cellular and Molecular Physiology.

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

October 2001 - September 2005

Cellular and molecular physiology (Mr MA Cuff)

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

October 1997 - September 2001

Mechanisms involved in transcriptional regulation of human intestinal Na/glucose cotransporter, SGLT1.

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

October 2002 - September 2006

Molecular insights into microbial population and absorptive mechanisms of equine large intestine.

HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BOARD (UK)

October 1999 - September 2002

Transcriptional regulation of human colonic butyrate transporter, MCT1, a molecular analysis.

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

October 2003 - January 2007

Cellular Biology of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Pancreas in Health and Disease.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2000 - December 2004

Molecular insights into the role of dietary fibre in the prevention of cancer of the colon.

TENOVUS

October 1997 - July 2003

VIP 2007/08

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

October 2007 - September 2008

Impaired butyrate metabolism may be a contributory factor in colon carcinogenesis. a molecular characterisation.

TENOVUS

January 2006 - December 2008

Adaptive response of equine intestinal function to changes in diet composition: molecular characterisation.

HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BOARD (UK)

October 2003 - September 2006

Nutrient regulation of gene expression in the intestinal epithelium.

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

January 2003 - December 2005

Molecular characterisation and adaptive response of digestive, absorptive, nutrient sensing and endocrine systems of fish gut epithelium during development and in response to a change in diet.

ADM INTERNATIONAL

September 2010 - March 2026

Molecular characterisation of substrate-induced mRNA stability of the human monocarboxylate transporter 1, MCT1.

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

October 2001 - September 2003

Veterinary Research Training Scholarship.

HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BOARD (UK)

October 1999 - September 2002

Characterisation of fructose transport in equine small intestine.

THE HORSE TRUST (UK)

January 2001 - December 2002

Molecular insights into the role of dietary fibre and maintenance of colonic health.

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 1999 - April 2002

Cellular biology of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas in health and disease.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

January 2005 - December 2009

Interactions between diet, microflora and the development of large intestinal dysfunction: molecular characterisation.

HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BOARD (UK)

October 2005 - September 2008

Molecular characterisation of the equine intestinal sweet taste receptor.

HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BOARD (UK)

October 2007 - September 2010

Conference grant.

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

July 2002 - December 2002

VIP Bridging Support: Dr Kristian Daly

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

June 2010 - August 2010

Molecular characterisation of digestive and absorptive functions in equine intestinal tract.

THE HORSE TRUST (UK)

January 1999 - June 2002

Incoming study visit for Dr Frank Stolz from Belgium.

ROYAL SOCIETY (CHARITABLE)

November 2002 - December 2002

Anatomy of gastrointestinal tract during development and in health/disease

ROYAL EMBASSY OF SAUDI ARABIA

April 2010 - March 2013

Molecular insights into dietary protection against colonic cancer. the importance of butyrate transport.

TENOVUS

May 2003 - August 2005

Transcriptional regulation of intestinal Na+/glucose co-transporter (SGLT1) gene expression by dietary sugars.

WELLCOME TRUST (UK)

March 1999 - February 2001