As part of a larger successful EU grant awarded to Valerie Curran, Professor of Psychopharmacology at UCL, the commercial team led by Professor Malcolm Clench and Dr Tom Bassindale have been successful in being awarded £69,508 for a contract research project working for Professor Curran.

The funding will be used for some of Tom Bassindale's time, mass spectrometry instrument usage and consumables and to pay for a University placement student to carry out the work.

The project will last for one year starting in September 2016 and will be for the analysis of 1900 hair samples to quantify levels of alcohol, MDMA, cocaine, mephedrone, amphetamine and ketamine, THC and cannabidiol. The project is at 131% of FEC.