Research Grants

Applied Computing
Prof IW Ricketts: £2,500 from Anonymous Trust to purchase a fujitsu pen tablet.
Dr S Parkes: £136,000 from NERC for Scientific services allocation 2001/2002 (Dundee Satellite Receiving Station)
Dr N Hine: £22,320 from The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for expert contributions to STF204 and STF201 - project team activities at ETSI headquarters, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Biomedical Research Centre
Dr G Smith & Dr SH Ibbotson (Dermatology): £4,000 from Anonymous Trust for a study entitled "Is there a genetic basis for individuality in response to drug treatment and phototherapy in the management of common skin disorders?"

Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe & Dr R Tavendale: £5,674 from Anonymous Trust for study entitled "Are circulating levels of soluble CD4OL altered in coronary heart disease?".

Child Health
Dr AM Davies: £4,250 from Anonymous Trust to study the gene profile of cardiomyocytes in hypoxia.
Dr RM Crawford: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for proteins associated with the cardiac ATP-sensitive K+ channels.
Dr S Jovanovic: £4,950 from Anonymous Trust for KATP channels and protection of cardiomyocytes against hypoxireoxygenation.
Dr A Jovanovic: £4,950 from Anonymous Trust for regulation of SUR2A levels in the heart.
Dr A Mehta: £4,900 from Anonymous Trust towards a rational strategy for propter-hoc and post-hoc drugs to improve mucus clearance from the lung.
Prof R Hume & Dr L Jackson: £4,650 from Anonymous Trust for the molecular basis of intra-uterine growth retardation and hypoglycaemia in infants.
Dr C Ghioni: £4,922 from Anonymous Trust for the role of fatty acids in the expression of the cystic fibrosis phenotype at the cellular level.
Dr K Richard: £4,349 from Anonymous Trust for the effect of oxygen on the expression of epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) genes.
Dr SM Wilson & Dr SJ Ramminger: £4,850 from Anonymous Trust for hormonally-regulated Na+ transport and infant respiratory distress syndrome.

Civil Engineering
Dr P Dong: £9,640 from the Royal Society for wave reflection.
Dr MJ McCarthy: £56,705 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Industrial Partner for the use of by-products from co-combustion technology in power generation for concrete construction (CASE studentship: Mr JH Brindle)

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Prof TM MacDonald & Dr L Wei: £20,056 from Chief Scientist Office for a study entitled "Is there an association between use of glucocorticoids and cardiovascular disease?" (joint with University of Edinburgh).
Prof TM MacDonald & Prof AD Struthers: £182,974 from Chief Scientist Office for a study entitled "Does the aldosterone:renin ratio predict the efficacy of spironolactone over bendrofluazide in hypertension?" (joint with University of Glasgow).
Prof AD Struthers & Mr SJ McSwiggan (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics), Prof JJF Belch, Dr RS MacWalter, Dr S Pringle & Dr K Wong (Medicine): £59,885 from Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland towards reducing cardiac mortality in stroke survivors with high urate: the next steps.
Dr D Patterson: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust What are the mechanisms whereby oral salt loading adversely affects the tissue cardiovascular parameters in healthy volunteers?
Dr GP Currie: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for a study entitled "Is there leukotriene medicated component of asthmatic airway inflammation which is not controlled by combined inhaled corticosteroid/long acting B2 agonist therapy?"
Dr DKC Lee: £4,250 from Anonymous Trust for the effects of single or combined allergic mediator antagonism on nasal mannitol challenge in allergic rhinitis.
Prof BJ Lipworth: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for dose-response for leukotriene receptor blockade on nasal lysine-aspirin challenge in patients with aspirin intolerant asthma and nasal polyposis.

Dental Health Services Research Unit
Prof NB Pitts: £548,377 from Chief Scientist Office for Dental Health Services Research Unit 2002/2003.

Dental School
Dr IR Ellis & Dr AM Schor: £4,950 from Anonymous Trust for endothelial cell response to angiogenic factors under hydrodynamic flow.
Prof S Schor & Dr AM Schor: £8,250 from Anonymous Trust for Olympus digital camera, image analysis software and Olympus fluorescence microscopy unit.
Dr AM Schor & Dr K Motegi: £4,860 from Anonymous Trust for the promotion of wound healing by MSF and IGD-based peptides.
Dr PM McGoldrick: £45,435 from Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education for clinical management of dental anxiety.

Dermatology
Dr SH Ibbotson, Prof J Ferguson, & Prof CR Wolf (Biomedical Research Centre): £13,668 from Chief Scientist Office to study the expression and regulation of cytoprotective genes in human skin (extension).
Dr SM Morley & Dr AP Carena (Medical Physics): £3,500 from Anonymous Trust for compression bandage training aid and under bandage pressure monitoring unit.
Dr SH Ibbotson & Dr L Finlan (Molecular and Cellular Pathology): £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for the effect of ultraviolet radiation and photochemotherapy on p53 activation pathways in human skin cells.

Electronic Engineering and Physics
Dr RA Vaughan: £274,350 from CEC Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Programme for operational radar and optical mapping in monitoring hydrodynamic, morphodynamic and environmental parameter for coastal management (OROMA)

Epidemiology
Dr B Williams, Dr JS Dowell (General Practice), Dr S Mukhopadhyay (Child Health) & Ms A Smith (Physiotherapy): £72,322 from Chief Scientist Office for a qualitative investigation of adherence to physiotherapy among children with cystic fibrosis (joint with University of Abertay and Lothian University NHS Trust).
Dr JPL Davis, Prof IK Crombie & Dr B Williams (Epidemiology), Dr JS Dowell (General Practice) & Dr RC Roberts (Medicine): £36,012 from Chief Scientist Office for a case-study of primary care practitioners' attitudes to an epilepsy guideline, its use and implementation.
Prof IK Crombie, Mr S MacGillivray & Mr SA Ogston (Epidemiology), Prof IC Reid (Psychiatry) & Prof F M Sullivan (General Practice): £19,567 from Chief Scientist Office for a Cochrane collaboration systematic review and meta-analysis of the pharmacological treatment of depressive disorder in primary care.

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing Curriculum Office
Mrs JR Crosby, Prof MJ Pippard (Molecular & Cellular Pathology) & Dr SC Rennie (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £20,710 from Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education for the development and evaluation of structured clinical operative tests.

Fine Art
Mr G Renwick: £54,000 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for 'Home': placemaking within a self-governed native Canadian homeland (fellowship).
Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £6,000 from Pier Arts Centre for Orkney Bell - erection of structure at Yesnabey, Orkney.
Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £10,000 from the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television for Bradford Fellowship.

General Practice
Dr JS Dowell & Dr J Fagerson: £3,000 from Chief Scientist Office to study the sickness certification system: how GPs operate it, their views and scope for change. (Primary Care research fund: joint with other General Practitioners).
Prof FM Sullivan, Dr PT Donnan, Dr HC Pagliari, Mrs MC Pitkethly & Dr D Snadden (General Practice), Dr L Elliott, Prof SC Hunt & Ms J Taylor (Nursing & Midwifery): £145,354 from Scottish School of Primary Care for research-based development in Scottish primary care.

Geography
Prof HR Jones: £41,272 from Economic and Social Research Council for study of rapid demographic change and livelihood sustainability in rural Thailand.
Prof HR Jones: £800 from British Council for sustainability of rural livelihood systems.
Prof A Werritty (joint with Universities of Newcastle, Aberdeen, Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Ulster, CEH Wallingford and Windermere): £2,045,529 from NERC for national infrastructure for catchment hydrology experiments (NICHE)/catchment hydrology and sustainable management. (CHASM) (Joint Infrastructure Fund)

Gynaecology and Obstetrics
Prof A Burchell & Dr K Isaac: £4,915 from Anonymous Trust for improved diagnosis of liver glycogen storage disease in infants.

Life Sciences
Prof JA Raven: £9,582 from the Royal Society for bryophyte metabolism in a moss.
Prof C Watts & Dr AR Prescott : £1,333,121 from Medical Research Council for antigen capture and presentation of MHC molecules by dendritic cells.
Prof MJ Rennie & Dr DJR Cuthbertson (Life Sciences), Mr BG Ewing (Sport & Exercise), Dr EAM Magee (Molecular & Cellular Pathology) & Dr CR Paterson (Medicine): £29,795 from Tenovus Tayside for investigations of bone and muscle mass by dual x-ray absorptiometry in studies of bone and muscle turnover with ageing.
Dr JA Anderson: £900 from Central Laboratory of the Research Councils for XAFS study of Pd-base three-way catalysts containing Zr and Ce under reaction conditions and component distribution in sulphated Zr-Si solid acid mixed oxides.
Dr SJ Powis: £16,464 from University of Porto for characterisation of MHC class l/chaperone complexes in human T cells and cell lines (studentship: Susana Santos)

Mathematics
Prof R Fletcher: £43,903 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for gradient methods for large scale optimization (visiting fellowship: Dr Y-H Dai).
Dr ARA Anderson: £8,000 from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a study entitled "From mutations to metastases: the mathematical modelling of cancer growth and development (personal research fellowship - supplement).
Dr SM Booker: £3,000 from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for the development of novel and non-linear methods in transient electromagnetics (personal research fellowship: supplement).

Mechanical Engineering
Mr AP Slade, Prof JR Hewit & Dr MS Pridham: £4,720 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for 'Technology meets Surgery International 2002'.

Medical Physics
Mrs R Ross, Dr G Griffiths (Surgery & Molecular Oncology) & Mrs R Levison (Medicine): £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for ultrasound surveillance.

Medicine
Dr G Kennedy, Prof JJF Belch, Dr A Hill, Dr F Khan & Dr V A Spence: £28,647 from MERGE ME Research Group for Education and Support for chronic inflammation and apoptosis in chronic fatigue syndrome (supplementary award).
Prof JJF Belch, Prof RT Jung, Dr SR McEwan & Prof RW Newton: £329,282 from Medical Research Council for the prevention of progression of asymptomatic diabetic arterial disease (POPADAD) (multi-centre study in collaboration with other institutions) (supplement).
Prof JJF Belch, Prof RT Jung, Dr SR McEwan & Prof RW Newton: £268,389 from Medical Research Council for the prevention of progression of asymptomatic diabetic arterial disease (POPADAD study) (multi-centre study in collaboration with other institutions) (extension).
Dr F Khan & Prof JJF Belch (Medicine), Dr JS Forsyth & Dr S Mukhopadhyay (Child Health): £4,900 from Anonymous Trust for the effects of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation of infant formula milk on endothelial function and arterial stiffness in 7 year olds.
Mr DJ Newton, Prof JJF Belch, Mr SP Bennett, Dr F Khan, Dr GP Leese and Dr G Griffiths (Surgery and Molecular Oncology): £3,475 from Anonymous Trust for local pressure effects on microvascular function in the diabetic foot.
Dr CR Paterson: £2,286 from Anonymous Trust to study the clinical aspects of brittle bone disease.
Dr G Kennedy: £4,822 from Anonymous Trust to study circulating endothelial cells in peripheral arterial disease.

Molecular and Cellular Pathology
Prof G Macfarlane: £4,560 from Anonymous Trust for the environmental regulation of virulence expression in campylobacter jejuni.
Dr S Macfarlane: £4,920 from Anonymous Trust for synbiotic treatment of ulcerative colitis.
Dr G O'May: £4,850 from Anonymous Trust for enteral tube feeding and bacterial colonisation of the stomach and small intestine.
Dr E Furrie: £4,780 from Anonymous Trust for the innate response against bacteria isolated from rectal biopsies.
Dr E Stanley: £4,890 from Anonymous Trust for the molecular basis of interindividual variation in human sulfation.
Dr WHI McLean: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for gene cream development for genetic skin diseases.
Ms S Lorimore: £4,700 from Anonymous Trust for digital image capture and analysis equipment.
Dr PJ Coates: £4,117 from Anonymous Trust for the purchase of a sprectrophotometer to aid a study of macrophage activity.
Prof JH Cummings: £3,356 from Anonymous Trust for a study of the effects of phyto-oestrogen supplementation on cyclical breast pain.
Dr EAM Magee: £6,136 from Anonymous Trust to study the toxicity of reduced sulphur compounds in the human large intestine: a novel approach to management of ulcerative colitis by dietary intervention.
Dr PE Ross: £4,350 from Anonymous Trust to study membrane ganglioside profiles in oesophageal disease and their effect on epidermal growth factor.
Prof S Fleming & Dr L Christie: £3,800 from Anonymous Trust for a molecular analysis of diabetic and hypertensive glomerular disease.
Dr AD Irvine: £4,900 from Anonymous Trust for the molecular basis of hidradenitis suppurativa.
Dr DH Edwards: £4,715 from Anonymous Trust for the localisation of essential bacterial cell division proteins.
Dr FV Fuller-Pace & Dr NM Kernohan: £4,600 from Anonymous Trust for the establishment of a screening method to examine p68 expression in neoplastic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.
Dr D Bowen & Dr M Alexander: £6,605 from Anonymous Trust for DNA base oxidation and repair in haematopoietic progenitors and their progeny; implications for the pathogenesis of myelodysplastic syndromes.
Dr MWH Coughtrie, Mrs S Sharp & Mr AM Thompson: £4,350 from Anonymous Trust for steroid sulfatase in breast cancer - a novel risk factor?

Orthopaedics
Dr R Abboud: £8,500 from Wishbone Trust for a study entitled "Ankle proprioception is a risk factor in ankle injury".

Otolaryngology
Miss M-L Montague & Mr PS White, (Otolaryngology), Prof BJ Lipworth & Dr AM Wilson (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics): £2,246 from Anonymous Trust for use of modified AMP nasal challenge testing as a screening tool for allergic rhinitis.

Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Prof MLJ Ashford & Dr J Harvey: £57,031 from Tenovus Tayside for differential modulation of k channel function by leptin and insulin: an investigation into the cellular mechanisms.
Dr J Harvey: £4,250 from Anonymous Trust for leptin modulation of GABAa receptor function: role of cytoskeletal architecture.
Dr CN Connolly: £4,720 from Anonymous Trust to study glutamate excitotoxicity in the selective vulnerability of motor neurons.
Dr BG Frenguelli: £4,886 from Anonymous Trust for continuous data acquisition hardware and analysis software for studies on seizure activity and adenosine production during cerebral ischemia.
Dr D Belelli: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for the effects of endogenous and synthetic neuroactive steroids upon GABA A and glycine receptors-mediated synaptic transmission in the spinal cord: novel analgesic agents?
Prof JJ Lambert and Dr BA Spruce (Surgery and Molecular Oncology): £4,390 from Anonymous Trust for receptor antagonists: novel therapeutics in the treatment of cancer.
Dr GA Lyles: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for nitric oxide synthase induction in vascular smooth muscle cells by cinnamate compounds.
Prof MLJ Ashford: £5,500 from Anonymous Trust for metabolic stress and the brain - implications for disease.
Dr CD Sutherland: £4,765 from Anonymous Trust for identification of potential targets for therapeutic intervention in type II diabetes mellitus.
Dr JA Peters: £4,100 from Anonymous Trust for a determination of the channel-lining residues within human homo- and hetero-oligomeric 5-HT3 receptors.

Psychiatry
Dr KC Breen: £1,115 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for evaluation of proposals.

Surgery and Molecular Oncology
Ms A Leslie & Prof RJC Steele: £5,000 from Tayside Oncology Research Fund for the nature and significance of the generic mutational profile of screen-detected colorectal neoplasia (extension).
Mr AM Thompson & Prof CR Wolf (Biomedical Research Centre): £330,426 from Breast Cancer Research (Scotland) for affymetrix gene expression array laboratory and continued technical support of xenograft research (extension).
Ms A Leslie: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for the nature and significance of the genetic mutational profile of screen-detected colorectal neoplasia.
Dr E Warbrick & Dr JRG Pohler: £2,278 from Anonymous Trust to study PCNA and its interacting proteins: their role in co-ordinating DNA replication and repair.
Ms A Leslie: £10,000 from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for the nature and significance of the genetic mutational profile of screen-detected colorectal neoplasia (supplement).
Mr AM Thompson: £109,395 from International Breast cancer Study Group for BIG-98: Evaluation of letrozole as adjuvant endocrine therapy for postmenopausal women with receptor positive tumours.

Town and Regional Planning
Mrs BM Illsley: £3,000 from Royal Town Planning Institute for the planner's role in community planning.

INDUSTRIAL AWARDS

Applied Computing
Dr S Parkes: £23,500
Dr P Gregor: £2,468

Biomedical Research Centre
Prof E Rankin: £13,219
Prof CR Wolf: £110,000
Prof CR Wolf: £664,672

Child Health
Dr A Mehta: £31,283

Civil Engineering
Dr TA Newson & Dr FW Smith: £16,236

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Prof TM MacDonald: £130,000

Dermatology
Dr SH Ibbotson: £360,000

Epidemiology
Prof IK Crombie, Dr L Irvine & Dr L Elliott (Nursing & Midwifery): £127,886

Fine Art
Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £1,175

Life Sciences
Prof GJ Barton: £50,000
Prof C Watts: £202,800

Mechanical Engineering
Mr DES Middleton: £1,000

Medicine
Dr RC Roberts: £1,800
Dr AD Morris: £6,592

Molecular and Cellular Pathology
Dr MWH Coughtrie: £5,767

Orthopaedics
Prof DI Rowley & Dr R Abboud: £1,231,440

Social Work
Prof N Baldwin & Mrs BA Gillies: £35,816
Mrs BA Gillies: £4,500

Television and Imaging
Prof S Partridge: £50,000

Town and Regional Planning
Dr WM Edgar: £5,692

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