University of Dundee - Confidence in Concept 2014
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Dundee
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Michael Ferguson (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Evans JC
(2021)
Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis CoaBC through Chemical Inhibition of 4'-Phosphopantothenoyl-l-cysteine Synthetase (CoaB) Activity.
in ACS infectious diseases
Heap RE
(2017)
Identifying Inhibitors of Inflammation: A Novel High-Throughput MALDI-TOF Screening Assay for Salt-Inducible Kinases (SIKs).
in SLAS discovery : advancing life sciences R & D
Mendes V
(2021)
Inhibiting Mycobacterium tuberculosis CoaBC by targeting an allosteric site.
in Nature communications
Moynié L
(2016)
A Substrate Mimic Allows High-Throughput Assay of the FabA Protein and Consequently the Identification of a Novel Inhibitor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa FabA.
in Journal of molecular biology
| Description | European Lead Factory |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 05/2017 |
| Description | High growth spinout |
| Amount | £131,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Enterprise |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | MRC |
| Amount | £823,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/P000509/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | project grant |
| Amount | £261,067 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arch Therapeutics |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | project grant |
| Amount | £209,048 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Versus Arthritis |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2014 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Description | translational medical research fund 2014 |
| Amount | £18,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Dundee |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2014 |
| Description | Hit TB TbCoABC sub-project |
| Organisation | Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Data and assays generated by the CiC supported HTS project. The hit Tb grant (our funded resource from the collaboration) we will support 1 FTE years chemistry and computational chemistry plus purchasing of commercial analogues of the hits. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Structural biology Tb cell biology and animal model work on selected examples. Fragment screening data and assays. |
| Impact | To early to generate defined outputs |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Investment Partnership Agreement |
| Organisation | Perceptive Bioscience Holdings Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The University has signed an Investment Partnership Agreement with Perceptive that will allow the DDU to further translate programmes developed with MRC CiC funding up to preclinical candidates. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Perceptive will underwrite the CURE Fund for up to 10 years. |
| Impact | The investment sum will be disclosed later in the year. |
| Start Year | 2016 |