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Prof Adrian Bone

Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology

contact:
Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642120

Email: A.J.Bone@brighton.ac.uk

Research Interests

  • Studies into the basic disease mechanisms involved in the development and progression of diabetes mellitus.
  • Development of novel methods for the prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications.
  • The application of gene therapy to the treatment of diabetes.
  • Identification and characterisation of genes associated with autoimmune disease.
  • The role of cellular defence and repair mechanisms in autoimmune disease.
  • Target specific therapy of autoimmune disease.
  • Cellular and molecular aspects of the aetiology and pathogenesis of diabetes.
  • The characterisation of the inflammatory processes involved in target specific islet cell destruction .
  • Islet cell growth and differentiation.

Membership of Scientific Associations

  • Diabetes UK
  • European Association for the Study of Diabetes
  • Society of Endocrinology
  • British Society for Immunology
  • American Diabetes Association
  • Biochemical Society

Scholarly Activities

  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Panel of Experts in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. Elected 1997 - ongoing.
  • Member of the British Endocrine Societies Liaison Committee and Programme Organising
  • Committee for BES meetings (Diabetes UK Representative). Elected 1997 - ongoing.
  • Member of the Medical and Medical & Social Research Advisory Panels for the National Lottery Charities Board (Community Fund). Appointed 2003 – ongoing.
  • Expert Panel Member EU 6th & 7th  Research Framework Programme. Appointed 2002 – ongoing
  • Expert/Rapporteur for the Marie Curie Individual Fellowships of the Human Resources and Mobility (HRM) Programme. Appointed 2005 – ongoing.
  • Expert Reviewer for PRTLI-funded Centre Impact Assessment. Higher Education Authority of Ireland. Appointed 2004.
  • Chairman of Programme/Local Organising Committee for the joint British Endocrine Societies/European Federation of Endocrine Societies Conference - Brighton 2004
  • Review Committee/Site Visit Chair for Joint Centre/Programme Grant funded between Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMW), Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation (Diabetes Fonds) and JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International). Leiden April 2007.
  • Chairman – RD Lawrence Fellowship Committee, Diabetes UK. Appointed 2007.
  • Honorary Secretary of the Medical and Scientific Section of BDA (Diabetes UK). 1997 – 4yr term.
  • Chair of the Science & Research Section of Diabetes UK. Elected 2004 – ongoing
  • Programme and Organising Committee for the Annual Professional Sections Conference of Diabetes UK – Glasgow 1999, Brighton 2000 (Committee Chairman), & Birmingham 2002.
  • Member of the UK Advisory Council and Professional Advisory Council Executive of Diabetes UK. Elected 2005 - ongoing
  • Workpackage Leader – Coordination Action on the aetiology, pathology and prediction of type 1 diabetes in Europe (Project acronym: TONECA). EU Sixth Framework Programme Priority 1.1.1: Life Sciences, Genomics & Biotechnology for Health. (28 Partners: May 2004 – May 2008)

Research Publications

Number of items: 11.

Richardson, S.J., Leete, P., BONE, ADRIAN, Foulis, A.K. and Morgan, N.G. (2012) Expression of the enteroviral capsid protein VP1 in the islet cells of patients with type 1 diabetes is associated with induction of protein kinase R and downregulation of Mcl-1 Diabetologia . ISSN 0012-186X

Willcox, A., Richardson, S.J., BONE, ADRIAN, Foulis, A.K. and Morgan, N.G. (2011) Immunohistochemical analysis of the relationship between islet cell proliferation and the production of the enteroviral capsid protein, VP1, in the islets of patients with recent-onset type 1 diabetes Diabetologia, 54 (9). ISSN 0012-186X

BONE, ADRIAN, Richardson, S.J., Willcox, A., Morgan, N.G. and Foulis, A.K. (2011) Immunopathology of the human pancreas in type-I diabetes Seminars In Immunopathology, 33 (1). ISSN 1863-2297

Persaud, S.J., Arden, C., Bergsten, P., Bone, A.J., Brown, J., Dunmore, S., Harrison, M., Hauge-Evans, A., Kelly, C., King, A., Maffucci, T., Marriott, C.E., McClenaghan, N., Morgan, N.G., Reers, C., Russell, M.A., Turner, M.D., Willoughby, E., Younis, M.Y.G., Zhi, Z.L. and Jones, P.M. (2010) Pseudoislets as primary islet replacements for research: report on a symposium at King's College London Islets, 2 (4). pp. 236-239. ISSN 1938-2014

Richardson, S.J, Wilcox, A, Bone, A.J, Foulis, A.K and Morgan, N.G (2009) The prevalence of enteroviral capsid protein vp1 immunostaining in pancreatic islets in human type 1 diabetes Diabetologia, 52 (6). pp. 1143-1151. ISSN 0012-186X

Wilcox, A., Richardson, S.J., Bone, A., Foulis, A.K. and Morgan, N.G. (2009) Analysis of islet inflammation in human type 1 diabetes Clinical And Experimental Immunology, 155 (2). pp. 173-181. ISSN 0009-9104

Harrison, M., Siddiq, A., Guildford, A., Bone, A. and Santin, M. (2007) Stent material surface and glucose activate mononuclear cells of contril, type 1 and type 2 diabetes subjects Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 83A . pp. 52-57. ISSN 1549-3296

Luther, M.J., Davies, E., Muller, D., Harrison, M., Bone, A, Persaud, S.J. and Jones, P.M. (2005) Cell-to-cell contact influences proliferative marker expression and apoptosis in MIN6 cells grown in islet-like structures American journal of physiology-endocrinology and metabolism, 288 (3). pp. 502-509. ISSN 1522-1555

Rosales, A.L., Cunningham, J.M., Bone, A, Green, I.C. and Green, M.H.L. (2004) Repair of Cytokine-induced DNA damage in cultured rat islets of Langerhans Free radical research, 38 (7). pp. 665-674. ISSN 1029-2470

Sigfrid, L.A., Cunningham, J.M., Beeharry, N., Borg, L.A.H., Hernandez, A.L.R., Carlsson, C., Bone, A and Green, I.C. (2004) Antioxidant enzyme activity and mRNA expression in the islets of Langerhans from the BB/S rat model of type 1 diabetes and an insulin-producing cell line Journal of molecular medicine, 82 . pp. 325-335. ISSN 1432-1440

Lally, F.J., Ratcliff, H. and Bone, A (2001) Apoptosis and disease progression in the spontaneously diabetic BB/S rat Diabetologia, 44 . pp. 320-324. ISSN 1432-0428

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