London Met Graduate wins grant from LDA for research

London Metropolitan University PhD graduate, Dr Subrata Bose has been awarded £8000 by the London Development Agency (LDA) to fund the prototyping of a bioinformatics platform. He shares this funding with fellow alumni Professor Hassan Kazemian and Dr Kenneth White as well as Dr Antony Browne from the University of Surrey.

Bioinformatics or ‘computational biology’ describes the use of mathematics, computer science, chemistry and statistics to solve biological problems such as evolution or gene expression.

Dr Bose recently graduated from the PhD Research Studentship in Bioinformatics after first completing the MSc in Computing. His research evaluated the informatics possibilities of membrane protein prediction, the processes a cell goes through in order to place proteins in their appropriate positions. Errors in these sequences can cause disease. He is now turning his ideas into a commercial proposition to support the increased introduction of bioinformatics internationally.

‘Winning this award has given me a real boost! After three years of research, its good to see my ideas have the potential to turn into a commercial reality,’ said Doctor Bose. ‘I am originally from Bangladesh and when I first came to London Met as a graduate student I could never have envisaged that it would have led me so far along this route.’

30 May 2008