Funding awarded to Southampton academics for research into Multiple Sclerosis and Altzeimer'sProfessor Hugh Perry and Dr Tracey Newman of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton have received funding of £264,000 from the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research towards their research project. The project they are working on - A compartmentalised chamber for the in vitro study and manipulation of axon degeneration - adopts an interdisciplinary approach and will take advantage of the new state-of-the-art clean rooms and nanofabrication centre in the Mountbatten building on the main Highfield Campus at the University of Southampton. The aim of the project is the development of a device to grow neurons in a controlled environment which mimics aspects of the organisation of brain and spinal cord, this will help to investigate more effectively diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s Disease.
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