Dr Jo Mountford
- Senior Lecturer (Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences)
- Adviser Of Studies (School of Life Sciences Administration)
telephone: 01413307212
email: Jo.Mountford@glasgow.ac.uk
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Proof of principle: Human embryonic stem cell derived red cell concentrates for clinical transfusion
Wellcome Trust
2013 - 2013
- TRANSLATING HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL-DERIVED ENDOTHELIAL CELL THERAPY TO THE CLINIC
Medical Research Council
2012 - 2015
- Characterisation of T16, a novel stem cell survival compound (ISSF Catalyst Fund)
Wellcome Trust
2011 - 2014
- Red blood cell programme
Scottish Funding Council
2011 - 2011
- Red blood cell programme
Scottish Funding Council
2011 - 2011
- In vitro and in vivo analysis of stem cell commitment to vascular endothelial cells
British Heart Foundation
2011 - 2013
- miRNA study with Sistemic
Scottish Enterprise Glasgow
2010 - 2011
- Clinical translation of endothelial cells derived from human embryonic stem cells
Technology Strategy Board
2010 - 2011
- Proof of principle: Human embryonic stem cell derived red cell concentrates for clinical transfusion
Wellcome Trust
2009 - 2013
- Production of cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells
Stem Cells for Safer Medicines
2009 - 2010
- Effect of major efflux transporters on the intracellular concentration of dasatinib in CML CD34+ patient cells and cell lines
Tenovus-Scotland
2009 - 2009
- Measurement and modulation of tyrosine kinase inhibitor drug levels in chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Scottish Executive Health Department
2007 - 2008
- Generation of Cardiomyocytes from Mesenchymal Stem Cells derived from Adult Human Bone Marrow
British Heart Foundation
2005 - 2007
- Do transporter proteins contribute to clinical resistance to imatinib in chronic myeloid leukaemia? A combined study in Liverpool and Glasgow, correlating transporter expression and function with Imatinib uptake and efflux.
Leukaemia Research Fund
2004 - 2007
- Novel drug combinations for eradication of Ph+/Bcr-Abl+ haemopoietic stem cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)
MRC
2003 - 2006
- Novel drug combinations for eradication of Ph+/Bcr-Abl+ haemopoietic stem cells in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)
Leukaemia Research Trust for Scotland
2003 - 2006
- Collection of normal cord blood cells as control samples. (b) Characterisation and expansion of haemopoietic stem cells from umbilical cor.
Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
2003 - 2006
- Collection of normal cord blood cells as control samples. (a) Development of new treatment regimes for leukaemia: specificity of drug ef
MRC
2003 - 2006
Grant Advisory Board
- 2006 - ongoing: Scottish Stem Cell Network - Advisory Board Member
Invited International Presentations
- 2008: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Invited Speaker: British Association for Gene Therapy, Public Open Day, Journeys in the Genetic Jungle.
- 2008: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Invited Speaker: UK Nation Stem Cell Network Annual Meeting
- 2007: Imperial College, London, UK - Invited Speaker: Drug Resistance Annual Workshop
- 2007: Dundee, Scotland, UK - Chair: BBSRC Public Debate. Stem Cell Science - 'Hope not Hype.'
- 2007: Giens, France - Plenary Speaker: Club Hématopoïèse et Oncogenèse (CHO) Stem Cells and Cancer Meeting
- 2007: Singapore - Plenary Speaker: AACR Centennial Conference. Translational Cancer Medicine: Technologies to Therapy
- 2006: Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands - Invited Speaker: Basic and Translational Oncology 2006
- 2006: Imperial College, London, UK - Invited Speaker: Dept of Haematology
- 2005: Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Session Chair: Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biology. ISEH
- 2005: Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Invited Speaker: StemCell2005 Conference Schools Event
- 2005: Birkbeck College, London, UK - Invited Speaker: EuroSciCon, Growth, Expansion and Differentiation of Stem Cells
- 2005: Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Invited Speaker: Novartis Satellite Symposium, Leading the way in CML. ISEH,
- 2004: Canada - Invited Participant: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Special Workshop on Cancer Stem Cells (Closed meeting).
- 2004: ASH San Diego, USA - Oral Presentation: Simultaneous Session, Abstr 716, Functional ABCG2 Is Expressed on CML Stem Cells and Its Inhibition Selectively Depletes CML CD34+ Cells.
- 2004: Cyprus - Session Chair: BACR Workshop on Cancer Stem Cells and Telomerase.
Professional Learned Society
- 2006 - ongoing: International Society for Stem Cell Research - Member
- 2005 - ongoing: American Society of Hematology - Full International Member
- 2005 - ongoing: European Hematology Association - Member
- 2005 - ongoing: British Society for Hematology - Member
Research Fellowship
- 2001 - 2002: Lemuel W Diggs Fellow in Experimental Hematology
- 1997 - 2001: Barling-Radcliffe Prize Research Fellow
