| Essex team funded for 3 year study |
| Written by News Desk | |
| Wednesday, 19 March 2008 | |
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A major research project in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex has secured funding of more than £470,000 for a three-year study of free radicals that could provide crucial information in the fight against major debilitating diseases.
Free radicals are key players in many chemical and biological processes, often necessary to sustain life. Many enzymes use highly reactive free radicals to perform their catalytic functions. However, because of this high reactivity, free radicals can also participate in unwanted side reactions causing cell damage that may lead to many diseases including arthritis and Alzheimer’s disease. Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Professors Mike Wilson and Chris Cooper with Drs Dima Svistunenko and Brandon Reeder will lead research within the newly formed Centre for Radicals and Oxidative Stress (CROSS) that hopes to produce a way to eliminate them. “Ultimately we aim to identify the rules that govern free radical movement,” said Prof Wilson. “The way in which enzymes control free radical movement is of important scientific interest and we intend to examine the way they move through enzymes and proteins.”
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