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Research we've funded

PSC Support provides financial grants to high quality, peer-reviewed PSC research

Recent research studies funded by PSC Support:

July 2018: Psychological Intervention for PSC (£40,000)

January 2018: Quality of Life in people with PSC (£50,000)

January 2018: Single cell transcript analysis of liver infiltrating lymphocytes in primary sclerosing cholangitis by fine needle aspiration of the liver (£20,000)

December 2017: Validating the Prognostic Utility of Vascular Adhesion Protein 1 in Primary ScleRosing Cholangitis: The VAPoR Study (£15,000)

August 2017: Deriving T cell gene-expression signatures of primary sclerosing cholangitis (£24,480)

June 2016: Investigation of the effect of male cholestasis on the epigenome of sperm and the impact on the health of children of men with cholestasis (£25,000)

June 2016: An unbiased screen for novel clinical and molecular biomarkers of the progression of primary sclerosing cholangitis to biliary tract cancer (£7,000)

October 2015: West Midlands Virtual PSC Programme (£10,000)

May 2015: The role of non-canonical Wnt signalling in the establishment of fibrosis during PSC (£18,106.13)

October 2014: UK-PSC Project Manager (£15,125)

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