{"id":1121,"date":"2019-09-11T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impact.mcf.org.uk\/2020\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:38:11","slug":"kidney-research-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impact.mcf.org.uk\/2020\/2019\/09\/kidney-research-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidney Research UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>How are you working with the MCF?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\nThe MCF has provided \u00a3255,000 to Kidney Research UK to fund three PhD studentships, including mine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>What\u2019s the basis of your research?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>In simple terms, I will be looking at kidney transplant rejection treatment through virus blocking. The BK virus harmlessly exists in a healthy person, but causes problems in some kidney transplant patients as the medicines taken to prevent transplant rejection allow the virus to grow uncontrollably. There are no effective treatments for BK infection, other than reducing the anti-rejection medications, which then means rejection is more likely. Drug-like compounds have been developed that prevent the BK virus from getting into cells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>What difference will your research make?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>Having to have a kidney transplant carries many worries and uncertainties. Hopefully my research into new therapeutics against the BK virus will lead to future treatments. I hope this will mean patients and their relatives have one less worry to deal with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Why is the MCF\u2019s funding important?<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>The MCF\u2019s strategy of funding PhD studentships will help to advance the medical community\u2019s knowledge and understanding of complex diseases, and demonstrates the charity\u2019s <span class=\"s3\">commitment to investing in the next <\/span>generation of research experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By nurturing the talent of young scientists like me and providing the funding necessary for them to become experts in our fields, freemasonry is enabling the research breakthroughs of tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Kidney Research UK<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Corinna Brockhaus,<\/strong> <em>Research Postgraduate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCF has provided \u00a3255,000 to Kidney Research UK to fund three PhD studentships, including mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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