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MSIF has awarded a further two Du Pré Grants to young MS researchers in the second round of the 2007 awards. The researchers, Dr Jennifer Somerfield from New Zealand and Dr Ingrid van der Mei from the Netherlands, will undertake MS research projects in the UK and USA respectively.
The Du Pré Grant will enable Dr Jennifer Somerfield to return to the University of Cambridge in the UK where, from 2006-2007, she spent a year working as part of the Therapeutic Immunology Group in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences. Her two month visit in 2008 will provide her with the opportunity to continue working on three collaborative projects; the phase 3 trials of Campath-1H versus Rebif and investigations into the role of a T cell prostaglandin receptor in MS and techniques to induce tolerance to therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.
Dr Ingrid van der Mei will travel from the Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Australia to the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA. The visit will support Dr van der Mei’s aim of developing an International Consortium on Gene-Environment Interactions in MS.
The successful recipients were selected by the members of the MSIF International Medical & Scientific Board’s Du Pré Grant Work Group.
Du Pré Grants are offered twice a year but nominations can be received at any time.
The Spring nomination deadline is 15 February 2008; visit the Du Pré Grants page in our Research section for more information, or contact Zoe Burr, International Programme Officer.
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