Research Grants

Accountancy

Prof J Innes: £9,500 from Chartered Institute of Management Accountants General Charitable Trust Fund for social performance measures and social information requirements of Managers (joint with Deakin University Australia).

Applied Computing

Dr N Alm & Mr GM Gowans (Design): £289,317 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for a multimedia reminiscence experience and conversation support for elderly people with memory loss.

Dr SJ McKenna, Dr P Gregor & Prof AF Newell: £134,320 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for advanced sensors for supportive environments for the elderly.

Dr N Alm: £9,923 from University of Edinburgh for Penfriend.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr LI McLellan: £177,176 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for molecular genetic analysis of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase activity in Drosophila melanogaster with respect to ageing.

Dr PR Clarke: £42,260 from Cancer Research Campaign for regulation of apoptosis by intracellular signals (Senior Cancer Research Fellowship).

Dr PR Clarke: £43,030 from Cancer Research Campaign for fluorescence microsope (equipment).

Centre for Applied Language Studies

Dr A McNeill and Ms MMG Sporing: £25,000 from Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research for Modern Languages Benchmarking in the Post-Secondary Sector.

Child Health

Dr A Jovanovic: £112,012 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for regulation of cardiac Katp channel subunits by estrogens.

Civil Engineering

Dr CQ Li, Dr P Dong, Dr MR Jones, Dr RI Mackie & Dr MJ McCarthy: £212,617 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for developing a quantitative risk based maintenance strategy for coastal concrete structures.

Dermatology

Dr I Man, Prof J Ferguson & Dr SH Ibbotson: £5,022 from British Skin Foundation for a randomised double-blind comparative study of treatment regimens for 8 methoxypsoralen bath PUVA.

Prof J Ferguson: £1,200,000 for drug light interaction studies.

Economics

Dr Y-F Chen: £3,820 from The British Academy for the theory of lobbying of the International Trade: A real option approach.

Geography

Prof HR Jones: £800 from British Council for applied population analysis (joint with Mahidol University) (Thailand academic links programme).

Prof HR Jones: £800 from British Council for applied population analysis (joint with Mahidol University) (Thailand academic links programme).

Dr AR Black, Dr O Bragg, Dr RW Duck & Dr JS Rowan: £77,354 from Scotland & Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER) for heavily modified water bodies in Scotland.

History

Dr M Frame: £17,106 from The Leverhulme Trust for theatre and civil society in Russia 1882-1905.

Mechanical Engineering

Dr EW Abel: £117,183 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for a new approach to diagnostic signal processing in Clinical EMG (joint with Walton Centre for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Liverpool)

Medicine

Dr M McLaren, Prof JJF Belch & Dr KD Morley: £17,603 from Chief Scientist Office for investigation of platelet glycoprotein Illa polymorphism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Dr AD Morris: £71,353 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for Tayside Regional Diabetes Network.

Orthopaedics

Dr R Abboud: £5,000 from Joint Action for 3-D CAD/CAM for digital insole manufacturing.

School of Life Sciences

Prof MAJ Ferguson: £176,756 from Wellcome Trust for isolation and characterisation of the flagellar pocket matrix from Trypanosoma brucei.

Dr T Tanaka: £506,804 from Wellcome Trust for role of cohesion between sister centromeres for proper segregation of chromatids (Research Career Development Fellowship).

Dr T Owen-Hughes: £528,170 from The Human Frontier Science Program for functional and structural studies of SWI/SNF – related complexes (joint with Institut Pasteur, University of Utah and CEA/Saclay).

Dr JA Anderson: £300 from British Council for S0x traps for use with N0x storage and reduction catalysts.

Dr ST Safrany: £10,000 from The Royal Society for inositide and nucleotide detection.

Dr PW Watt & Dr JE Cecil (Psychology): £4,507 from Tenovus Tayside for body composition analysis in a genetically identified cohort of pre-pubertal children having a potential predisposition towards obesity.

Dr JR Swedlow: £35,229 from Wellcome Trust for the mechanism of mitotic chromosome condensation (Research Career Development Fellowship – supplement).

Prof EB Lane: £54,307 from Cancer Research Campaign for microscope and workstation (equipment).

Prof DMJ Lilley: £19,750 from Cancer Research Campaign for equipment.

Dr WN Hunter: £134,577 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for the Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource (ELM): a new European bioinformatics facility for revealing functional sites in modular proteins.

Prof A Lamond, Dr PR Crocker, Prof CP Downes, Prof MAJ Ferguson, Prof GM Gadd, Prof EB Lane, Dr JM Lucocq, Dr E Smythe & Prof C Watts: £21,662 from Wellcome Trust for University of Dundee Centre for High Resolution Imaging in Cell and Molecular Imaging in Cell and Molecular Biology (Joint Infrastructure Fund – supplement).

Surgery & Molecular Oncology

Dr S Lain: £77,306 from Association for International Cancer Research for postranscriptional regulation of p14ARF. Development of a superactive p14ARF tumour suppressor protein.

Prof Sir DP Lane: £50,000 from Cancer Research Campaign for confocal microsope (Equipment).

Mr AM Thompson, Prof RJC Steele, Dr KL Ball, Dr Prof AJ Munro, Mr SM Shimi & Dr RA Brown (Mathematics); FA Carey, Dr JF Dillon, Dr TR Hupp,(Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £11,663 from Chief Scientist Office for novel diagnostic assays to define radiation sensitivity in the treatment of oesophageal cancer (extension).

Prof Sir DP Lane: £28,580 from Cancer Research Campaign for annual equipment allocation.

Surgical Neurology

Dr RJ Swingler: £35,000 from Tenovus Tayside for the epidemiology and genetics of Motor Neurone Disease.

INDUSTRIAL AWARDS

Applied Computing

Dr S Parkes: £177,829

Dr P Gregor: £34,123

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr C NA Palmer: £17,625

Dr C Elcombe: £1,800

Child Health

Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £2,303

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Prof BJ Lipworth: £166,467

Prof BJ Lipworth: £108,870

Dr AM Wilson: £3,000

Dental School

Prof NB Pitts: £2,937

Dermatology

Dr SH Ibbotson: £5,100

Epidemiology

Prof AS Anderson: £29,427

Fine Art

Prof A Robb, Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £40,000

Orthopaedics

Prof DI Rowley: £66,716

Prof DI Rowley: £21,281

Pharmacology & Neuroscience

Prof JJ Lambert, Dr D Belelli & Dr JA Peters: £20,874

School of Life Sciences

Prof AH Fairlamb: £62,594

Prof GM Gadd: £15,510

Prof Sir P Cohen & Prof A Lamond: £82,000

Prof MJ Rennie: £4,200

Social Work

Prof J Hogg: £25,000

Television & Imaging

Prof S Partridge: £49,210

Town & Regional Planning

Prof MG Lloyd & Mrs BM Illsley: £6,000


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