PSC Support was set up over twenty years ago. Supporting and funding research has always been an important part of our work, thanks to your generous donations.
We are proud of our grant research programme, which has clearly defined and transparent mechanisms in place, and a robust peer-review process to ensure only the highest quality, most worthwhile PSC research is funded.
Recent research studies funded by PSC Support:
December 2019: The development of a diagnostic blood test for PSC (£10,000)
October 2019: PSC600: A UK-PSC Initiative (£20,000)
September 2019: Early detection of bile duct cancer (£45,000)
July 2018: The PSC Wellbeing Study Psychological Intervention for PSC (£40,000)
January 2018: Quality of Life in people with PSC (£50,000)
January 2018: Single cell transcript analysis of liver infiltrating lymphocytes in primary sclerosing cholangitis by fine needle aspiration of the liver (£20,000)
December 2017: Validating the Prognostic Utility of Vascular Adhesion Protein 1 in Primary ScleRosing Cholangitis: The VAPoR Study (£15,000)
August 2017: Deriving T cell gene-expression signatures of primary sclerosing cholangitis (£24,480)
June 2016: Investigation of the effect of male cholestasis on the epigenome of sperm and the impact on the health of children of men with cholestasis (£25,000)
June 2016: An unbiased screen for novel clinical and molecular biomarkers of the progression of primary sclerosing cholangitis to biliary tract cancer (£7,000)
October 2015: West Midlands Virtual PSC Programme (£10,000)
May 2015: The role of non-canonical Wnt signalling in the establishment of fibrosis during PSC (£18,106.13)
October 2014: UK-PSC Project Manager (£15,125)