Royal Society Funding for Winstanley

Royal Society Funding Award for STEM Partnership

The partnership between Winstanley College and the Centre for Proteome Research (CPR) received recognition with a Royal Society Partnership Award. The grant was awarded to Winstanley College’s STEM Coordinator Dr Jen Platt-Skerry (a former IIB student) and CPR’s Prof Rob Beynon for their project entitled ‘Proteome Research at Winstanley College’.  

The grant allows students access to advanced instrumentation in CPR for their own projects. This is in addition to a recent Royal Society of Chemistry grant for gel equipment at Winstanley College. The project highlights the advantage of linking Chemistry and Biology and also Physics and Mathematics. Students are encouraged to understand a little of the physics behind a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer and they will start to understand Maths and ICT behind the search engines that are used to identify previously unknown proteins.

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