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The Wellcome Trust announced that Prof Chris Newbold has been given a Senior Investigator Award. These highly competitive awards provide funding for scientists who have an excellent track record and are in an established academic post. They offer the flexibility and time to enable them to tackle the most important questions in their field. Prof Newbold's research focuses on malaria virulence.

Credit: Angela Lee

From the RDM Image Competition 2015. 

This image shows a population of cultured macrophages (Raw 264.7) stained for phospholipids (red) and neutral lipid droplets (green), which are markers of macrophage foam cell formation in atherosclerosis. To recapitulate the in vivo course of macrophages in atherosclerotic plague formation, the cells were treated with oxidized LDL for 24 hours prior to imaging. The accumulation of macrophage foam cells in atherosclerotic lesions is associated with both initiation and progression of this disease. By quantifying the phospholipids and neutral lipid droplets using high-throughput imaging system, potential drug target or gene pathway may be identified.
Macrophage foam cell formation
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