Funding Overview
Who funds our research?
The UK CF Gene Therapy Consortium receives funds from a number of bodies. Our current funders include:
- Cystic Fibrosis Trust
- Flutterby Fundraisers
- Just Gene Therapy
- Private donations
We are grateful to all our funders whether large or small. Our work would not be possible without your assistance.
What does the funding go towards?
The core cost of running the GTC cannot be covered by individual project grants; however we are fortunate to be the recipients of donations that enable us to cover these much needed items
Below are some of the items that these donations go towards, as well as items that we are currently fund raising for.
Salary for staff members
The GTC could not run without its dedicated laboratory managers and administrators. These key people ensure our laboratories maintain health and safety standards, are finances appropriately and stocked with essential items. A laboratory manager typically costs £50,000/year.
Laboratory running costs
Each of our three laboratories cost ~£15,000/year to run. This cost includes basic items such as stationary and laboratory plasticware (tubes and bottles), as well as maintaining vital pieces of equipment such as a dedicated autoclave for virus production work.
Conference attendance for key researchers
It costs ~£2,000 to send a member of staff to conferences related to the work we do. Conferences provide us with a platform to both disseminate our own research, whilst learning about advances in the field that we can apply ourselves. Conferences also provide a good opportunity for networking and instigating new collaborations that will benefit our work.
Friday, October 14th 2016
Cutting Fragments out of an Agarose Gel Under UV (2015): When making novel plasmid DNA constructs, we have to cut DNA fragments out of agarose gels. DNA fragments separate by size on the gel and so can be identified easily when exposed to UV. More...
