Professor Mimoun Azzouz
MRC bodies you are a member of:
- Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS)
Main form of employment:
- The University of Sheffield, Department of Neuroscience, Sheffield
Research group/department web page/s:
Personal remuneration:
- University Pension
- Consultancy: BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc 201
- Honoraria: Panel member of the Research Council of Norway
Shareholdings and financial interests in companies
- In the process of founding a start up company
Research income during current session [over £50k per grant]
- EPSRC 2010-2013 (£960K) Polymer nanomedicine: enhancing the translation from the lab to the clinic. Jointly with Dr Giuseppe Battaglia, Prof Stephen Armes and Prof Nicola Brown.
- EPSRC 2009-2012 (£2.1M) Engineering Virus-like Nanoparticles for Targeting the Central Nervous System. Jointly with Giuseppe Battaglia (Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Sheffield), Pamela Shaw (Neurology Unit), Stephen Armes (Chemistry – polymer synthesis, Sheffield University), Anthony Ryan (Chemistry - polymer characterisation, Sheffield University), Ramin Golestanian (Physics - Soft condensed matter theory), Richard Jones (Physics–Polymer interfaces). Azzouz is Neuroscience Lead.
- MRC DPFS 2011-2013 (£740,000). SMN Replacement Gene Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Clinical Development. PI (Azzouz)
- ERC ADVANCED 2012-2017 (€2.5M). Gene therapy and nanotechnology based CNS targeted vectors. PI (Azzouz)
Major academic collaborators [national and international]
- Professor Michael Sendtner, Germany
- Professor Nicola Woodroofe, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Dr. Jean-Marc Gallo, King’s College London, UK
- Professor Susan Wente, Vanderbilt University, USA
- Dr Giuseppe Battaglia, Sheffield University, UK
- Professor Stephen Armes, Sheffield University, UK
- Professor Ramin Golestanian, Sheffield University, UK
- Professor N. J. Abbott, King’s College London
- Professor Phil Ingham, BMS, Sheffield University
- UK Dr. Ahmed Sohail, Biopolis, Singapore
- Professor Thomas Gillingwater, Edinburgh University
Un-remunerated involvement with and membership of medical, bio-medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare provision or science or health policy/communication and similar activities/organisations
- Association Francaise contre les myopathies (AFM)
Political/pressure group associations:
- None
Family:
- None
