Research Grants

Applied Computing

Dr N Alm & Dr P Gregor: £78,961 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for friendly rest room for people with disabilities.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr T Friedberg: £68,753 from Medical Research Council and Industrial Partner for recombinant models for drug development (CASE studentship: Miss J Ross).

Civil Engineering

Prof PA Davies: £182,127 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC and Industrial Partner for the dynamics of rotating stratified flows in a driven cavity (joint with University of Manchester).

Prof MCR Davies: £40,392 from European Regional Development Fund for Recycling Institute (joint with University of Abertay).

Design

Mr RG Chisholm: £3,950 from Norman Fraser Design Trust for marine related product design, development and scale model prototype production viability exercise.

Geography

Prof A Findlay: £623,335 from Chief Scientist Office for extending the Scottish longitudinal study (joint with Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Edinburgh).

Gynaecology & Obstetrics

Prof A Burchell: £144,988 from Wellcome Trust for placental glucose metabolism in normal pregnancy and in intrauterine growth restriction (joint with Imperial College, London)

Mechanical Engineering

Dr EW Abel & Prof JJF Belch (Medicine): £4,100 from Norman Fraser Design Trust for skin elasticity evaluation instrument.

Medical Physics

Dr RA Lerski: £1,793 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for evaluation of research proposals (3/12/01-7/12/01).

Medicine

Prof JJF Belch, Dr F Khan & Dr M McLaren, Dr S Greene (Child Health): £95,493 from Chief Scientist Office for a study called Does quality care in young people with Type I diabetes improve vascular risk?

Dr G Kennedy, Prof JJF Belch & Dr M McLaren: £2,071 from Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland for study called Could chocolate be the new aspirin?

Dr M McLaren: £3,500 from The Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies for non-invasive assessment of microvascular function in relation to laminitis.

Molecular & Cellular Pathology

Prof JH Cumming, Prof G Macfarlane & Dr EAM Magee: £97,433 from Chief Scientist Office for the characteristics of bacterial biofilm communities of the large bowel in ulcerative colitis and their modification by diet.

Dr AD Irvine: £9,750 from British Skin Foundation for molecular basis of hidradenitis suppurativa (joint with County Hospital, Lincoln).

Dr WHI McLean: £21,357 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Res Ass for ribozyme gene therapy for dominant forms of EB (extension).

Politics

Dr N MacQueen: £2,610 from The British Academy for Portugal’s African Wars, 1961-74: An assessment of their metropolitan and international impact.

Surgery & Molecular Oncology

Ms A Leslie, Prof RJC Steele & Dr FA Carey (Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £5,850 from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for the nature and significance of the genetic mutational profile of screen-detected colorectal neoplasia (supplement).

Prof Sir A Cuschieri, Mr SM Shimi, Prof RJC Steele & Mr AM Thompson: £346,778 from Medical Research Council for artificial neural networks in individual cancer management (joint with University of Manchester).

Dr KL Ball: £42,825 from Cancer Research Campaign for signalling pathways that target the C-terminal regulatory domain of p21 WAF1/CIP1.

Dr R Fahraeus: £96,875 from Cancer Research Campaign for studies on a novel cell cycle dependent pathway for regulation of alpha v beta integrin mediated cell spreading in vitro and in vivo (Senior Cancer Research Fellowship).

Dr R Fahraeus: £42,411 from Cancer Research Campaign for studies on a novel G1 cell cycle-dependent kinase (CDK) regulated pathway for avb3 integrin function.

Dr KL Ball: £24,929 from Cancer Research Campaign for regulation of the Oncogene IRF-2 by reversible phosphorylation (Studentship: Mr M Kelleher).

School of Life Sciences

Prof Sir P Cohen, Dr D Alessi, Dr S Arthur, Prof T Cohen, Dr A Cuenda and Dr C MacKintosh:

£7,312,000 from Medical Research Council to 6 Principal Investigators in the Medical Research Council Phosphorylation Unit.

Dr P Schaap & Dr DE Rozen: £171,304 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for the development evolution of fruiting body size and pattern in social amoebae.

Prof CG Proud: £181,314 from Wellcome Trust for control of mammalian translation initiation factors and their roles in disease and cell death.

Dr AJ Flavell: £152,700 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for novel approaches to the analysis of genetic diversity in germplasm collections (joint with Scottish Crop Research Institute).

Prof HG Jones: £11,600 from The Royal Society for light stress tolerance in plants acclimated to different low-temperature regimes: role of polyamines (Royal Society Joint Research Project with Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

Prof DG Hardie: £37,250 from Wellcome Trust for structure, localisation and function components of the AMP-activated protein kinase cascade (supplement).

Dr M Buxade: £70,849 from CEC Quality of Life Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for MNK control of cytokine expression in T-cell activation.

Prof G Barton: £174,096 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for European macromolecular structure database – TEMBLOR.

Prof C Watts: £54,956 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC and Industrial Partner for identification of novel proteases in human antigen presenting cells: A systematic analysis (CASE Studentship: Garth Hamilton).

Prof CP Downes: £64,121 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC and Industrial Partner for PTEN regulation by nuclear receptors (CASE Studentship: Miss J Barnett).

Dr D Van Aalten: £66,413 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC and Industrial Partner for expanding drug docking algorithms to include an accurate description of receptor flexibility, and application to development of inhibitors of enzymes with chemotherapeutic potential (CASE Studentship: Mr Douglas Houston).

Social Work

Prof N Baldwin & Prof J Hogg; Ms J Taylor (Nursing & Midwifery): £4,500 from Scottish Executive for advisory services for the Scottish Executive Children and Young People’s Group.

Town & Regional Planning

Dr WM Edgar: £55,031 from University of St Andrews for core services to the Housing corporation (extension).

INDUSTRIAL AWARDS

Biomedical Research Centre

Prof CR Wolf: £53,045

Child Health

Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £26,734

Dr S Mukhopadhyay & Dr S Greene: £20,000

Dr S Mukhopadhyay & Dr S Greene: £40,171

Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics

Prof AD Struthers: £25,000

Civil Engineering

Prof RMW Horner: £80,000

Dental School

Dr PA Mossey & Prof WP Saunders: £44,552

General Practice

Mrs G Hoskins & Mr C McCowan: £52,827

Geography

Prof A Werritty: £4,930

Molecular & Cellular Pathology

Prof G Macfarlane & Prof CR Pennington (Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics): £105,000

Radiotherapy

Prof E Rankin: £77,602

School of Life Sciences

Dr J Thomson: £13,430

Dr ND Perkins: £360,509

Dr W Nazarov: £17,723

Secretary’s Office

Dr JRD Blicharski: £46,000

Total research income:£11,263,938


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