Congratulations to our colleagues in the EBIC Hub on the outcomes of the recent flexible funding round.
Over ÂŁ800k in total has been awarded to four projects, including one on Development of Peptide/Aptamer-Based Biosensing Platforms for Real-Time, Ultrasensitive Detection of PFAS with PI Dr Dhiman Chakravarty and co-Leads including Prof Zhugen Yang and Prof Frederic Coulon. The National Measurement Laboratory is also a project partner.
Prof Yang, who leads EBNet’s Environmental Sensors and Wastewater Surveillance (ESWS) WG, said “It’s great to see this excellent work going forward, especially the support for early career researchers to take the lead in tackling this emerging challenge with national and international collaborators”.
The topic is also closely related to the activities of the PFAS WG, which had a further success with its project proposal on Harnessing AI-assisted synthetic biology for enzyme engineering towards PFAS bioremediation with PI Dr Mahsa Baniasadi and co-Leads including WG Lead Dr Tao Lyu. For Dr Lyu’s comments on this work see this previous post, and for details of all the successful EBIC applications see here.
