Dr Marina Kuimova awarded fellowship

Dr Marina Kuimova of the Department of Chemistry has recently been awarded a Career Acceleration Fellowship by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Dr Marina Kuimova of the Department of Chemistry has recently been awarded a Career Acceleration Fellowship by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). These highly sought after Fellowships are designed to give support to outstanding researchers at an early stage of their careers.

Dr Kuimova will design new ways of measuring the viscosity of cells during her Fellowship. In cells, viscosity can affect signalling, transport and drug delivery, and abnormal viscosity has been linked to disease and malfunction. Measuring the viscosity of a single cell is a challenge for scientists, and Dr Kuimova aims to develop new tools for doing this, using fluorescence that becomes brighter as cells become more viscous and, consequently, diffusion in cells slows down. She hopes that the new methodology will improve our understanding of how cells function, and perhaps even enable scientists to design better drugs for certain diseases.

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