Grants – Research
- UKHSA, Pump priming fund
£20,000 for 1 year (2024-2025)
Title: Elucidating the influence of oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases
Will Timbury’s role: Project Investigator; Nora Bourbia’s role: Supervision/Group Leader - UKHSA, Pump priming fund
£20,000 for 1 year (2024-2025)
Title: Creating a 3-Dimensional Cutting-Edge in vitro Triculture Blood-Brain Barrier Model to Identify Neurotoxic Environmental Health Threats
Sean Getting’s role: Project Investigator; Nora Bourbia’s role: Supervision/Group Leader - UKHSA, Pump priming fund
£20,000 for 1 year (2022-2023)
Title: Effect of emerging mycotoxins on the onset of neurodegenerative diseases.
Nora Bourbia’s role: Principal Investigator - UKHSA, Pump priming fund
£20,000 for 1 year (2022-2023)
Title: Nanoplastics Exposure as a Risk to Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity
Sean Gettings’ role: Project Investigator; Nora Bourbia’s role: Supervision/Group Leader - Animal Free Research UK Summer Studentship 2021, SS2021-TC/v1.0/04.03.2021
£1959 (2 months July-August 2021)
Title: Developing an epigenome editing tool to study Parkinson’s Disease
Riddhi Sharma’s role: Student researcher; Nora Bourbia: Supervisor - NIHR HPRU Chemical & Radiation Threats & Hazards, NIHR200922
£4M for 5 years 2020-2025
Nora Bourbia: Co-lead of Theme 4 – Neurotoxins and high toxicity agents of the NIHR HPRU Chemical & Radiation Threats & Hazards.
Nora Bourbia’s roles: Lead, supervisor, and principal investigator.
Grants – Equipment
- Olink Signature Q100 for environmental effects on brain disease proteome; 2023 (£108k)
- In vitro electrophysiology system Multi-Electrode Array (MEA); 2020 (£100k)
Grants – Public Engagement and Participation
- Public & Community Involvement, engagement & Participation (PCEIP) Seed Fund 2023.
Funded by MRC – NIHR. £1500 for 1 year (2023-2024)
Title: The First Step Towards MouldMap: A Nationwide Index of Indoor Mould Species and Associated Health Outcomes.
Awarded to Sean Gettings.
Achievements
- Mandy Stanton and Ray Shek: UKHSA Awards 2023, nominated in Special Recognition Award – Team Category
- Nora Bourbia: FEPS Award for Young Investigators presented at European Young Physiologist Symposium (EYPS), Budapest (Hungary), 2014
- Nora Bourbia: Winner of the academic poster presentation at the WorldCon 75 in 2017, Helsinki (Finland)
- Nora Bourbia: Winner of the MRC Harwell Awards 2017 and Runner-up (2nd) of the MRC CEO Awards 2017 in the category Public Engagement.