Grants and Awards

Research grants

1. Next Generation Optical Microscopy Initiative

Funding Body: MRC/BBSRC/EPSRC

Amount Awarded: £1.5M

Principal Investigators: University of Sheffield

Contribution: Presented the idea of using PALM/STORM with solid immersion

lenses to capture 3D super-resolution information of membrane organization

in plants, which was adopted as one part of case for support.

Duration: 10/2013-10/2018

2. Time-resolved high-resolution solid immersion fluorescence microscopy

Funding Body: Faculty Equipment Bid, The University of Sheffield

Amount Awarded: £15,000

Principal Investigators: Dr. Lin Wang, Dr. Ashley Cadby, Prof. Neil Hunter

Contribution: Proposed the research and made the application.

Duration: 04/2011-04/2012

3. MRC Course in Advanced Optical Microscopy Scholarship. 2007

Funding Body: Medical Research Council

Amount Awarded: £1,000

Travel grants

1. Learned society funds

Funding Body: University of Sheffield

Amount Awarded: £105.60

Purpose: Attending Oxford Imaging Symposium 2014

Date: 03/2014

2. Learned society funds

Funding Body: University of Sheffield

Amount Awarded: £ 205.90

Purpose: Attending the Microscience Microscopy Congress 2014

Date: 06/2014

Scholarships and awards

1. MRC Course in Advanced Optical Microscopy Scholarship

Funding Body: Medical Research Council

Amount Awarded: £1,000

Date: 03/2007

2. ORSAS Award

Funding Body: Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme, UK

Amount Awarded: Home /EU student tuition fees

Duration: 09/2006-08/2009

3. University PhD Scholarship

Funding Body: University of Nottingham, UK

Amount Awarded: International student tuition fees & £27,000 living allowance

Duration: 09/2006-08/2009