Edinburgh

Using novel drug discovery platforms to inhibit ENPP enzymes during the calcification process

Supervisors: Scott WebsterVicky MacRaePatrick Hadoke

Project Description:

Heart disease and strokes affect about one person in three and are in part caused by arteries and valves becoming stiffened with calcium deposits (1). However, how this vascular calcification occurs is not fully known.

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Definition and validation of the epigenetic landscape of avian craniofacial morphogenesis

Supervisors: Jeffrey J. SchoenebeckMegan Davey

Project Description:

The study of chicken embryogenesis was and remains essential to our understanding of vertebrate developmental biology. Unlike placental mammals, chick embryos are easily accessed, manipulated, and studied live in ovo.

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