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Ms Tania Webb

Job: Pharmacy Programme Leader & Principal Lecturer in Pharmacology

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: Leicester School of Pharmacy

Address: Â鶹ƵµÀ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH.

T: +44 (0)116 257 7136

E: tewebb@dmu.ac.uk

W: /pharmacy

 

Personal profile

Dr Webb is Principal Lecturer in Pharmacology at the Leicester School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences. She is also the Programme Leader for the MPharm within the School of Pharmacy.

Tania graduated from the University of Wales with a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and then obtained a PhD in Molecular Neurobiology from Cambridge University.

During her doctoral studies she cloned and functionally characterised two novel G protein coupled receptors, identifying them as P2Y receptors. She then went on to an Astra Zeneca funded post- doctoral position at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London; where she developed an interest in the molecular pharmacology of G protein coupled receptors.

She has subsequently received funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to study the functional properties of this receptor class, most recently their dimerization. She specialises in teaching pharmacogenomics and is experienced in the expression of therapeutic targets in mammalian cells.

Publications and outputs


  • dc.title: Cloning and Characterization of a P2X Receptor Expressed in the Central Nervous System of Lymnaea stagnalis dc.contributor.author: Bavan, S.; Straub, V. A.; Webb, T. E.; Ennion, S. J.

  • dc.title: A retrospective of recombinant P2Y receptor subtypes and their pharmacology. dc.contributor.author: Sak, K.; Webb, T. E.

  • dc.title: Regulation of vascular endothelial cells and vascular smooth muscle cells by multiple P2Y receptor subtypes. dc.contributor.author: Boarder, M. R.; White, Pamela J.; Roberts, J. R.; Webb, T. E.

  • dc.title: Glutamate receptor-mediated inhibition of L-glutamate efflux from cerebral cortex in vitro. dc.contributor.author: Hainsworth, A. H.; Nelson, R. M.; Lambert, D. G.; Green, A. R.; Webb, T. E.

  • dc.title: P2Y Receptors: Structure and Function dc.contributor.author: Boarder, M. R.; Webb, T. E.

  • dc.title: Pharmacological Characterisation of Pyrimidinoceptor responses in NG108-15 cells dc.contributor.author: Sak, K.; Samuel, K.; Kelve, M.; Webb, T. E.

  • dc.title: Detection of toxigenic bacteria in polyurethane foam from cot mattresses by polymerase chain reaction dc.contributor.author: Sherburn, R. E.; Webb, T. E.; Jenkins, R. O.

  • dc.title: Mechanisms of P2 receptor-evoked DNA synthesis in thyroid FRTL-5 cells. dc.contributor.author: Webb, T. E.; Ekokoski, E.; Simon, J.; Tornquist, K.

  • dc.title: P2Y receptor regulation of cultured rat cerebral cortical cells: calcium responses and mRNA expression in neurons and glia. dc.contributor.author: Webb, T. E.; Bennett, G. C.; Smith, J. A. M.; Ford, A. P. W. D.; Emmett, Caroline J.; Boarder, M. R.

  • dc.title: Functional characterisation of a P2X receptor from Schistosoma mansoni. dc.contributor.author: Webb, T. E.; Agboh, K. C.; Ennion, S. J.; Evans, R. J.

Areas of teaching

  • Physiology
  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmagenomics
  • Bioinformatics

Courses taught

  • MPharm Hons Degree in Pharmacy
  • MSc Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  • Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science

Current research students

  • Norbert Nwankwo 2nd Supervisor