Research Grants

Total research income this month: £1,230,680.70

Biomedical Research Centre

Prof JD Hayes: £125,992 from the Association for International Cancer Research for mechanism by which cancer chemoprevention blocking agents stabilize the Nrf2 transcription factor and inhibit its Keap1-mediated degradation (joint with University of Tsukuba, Japan).

Dr SM Keyse, Prof E Rankin and Prof CR Wolf: £80,000 from Cancer Research UK for equipment award.

Education

Prof KJ Topping: £9,995 from Careers Scotland for 15-24 key worker research proposal.

Electronic Engineering & Physics

Dr DJ Keeble: £6,200 from CEC Competitive and Sustainable Growth Programme for POLECER (FP5).

Geography

Dr JS Rowan: £1,900 from Carnegie Trust for integrating hydrological and geomorphological approaches to the assessment of multi-decadal flood risk estimation.

History

Prof C McKean: £5,000 from PF Charitable Trust for research on early Dundee project leading to publication.

Maternal and Child Health Sciences

Dr SK Inglis and Dr MT Clunes: £5,582 from Tenovus Tayside for regulation of pH in distal airways.

Mrs M Macleod, Prof DJ Murphy and Dr R Youssef: £7,000 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for randomised controlled trial of restrictive versus routine use of episiotomy for instrumental vaginal delivery - a pilot study.

Molecular & Cellular Pathology

Dr PJ Coates: £130,343 from the Association for International Cancer Research for the role of p53-family members, p63 and p73, in survival and differentiation of haemopoietic cells.

Dr D Bowen: £4,320 from Tayside Leukaemia and Haematology Endowment Fund for maintenance of the MDS database.

Dr TR Hupp: £24,811 from Cancer Research UK for the role of p300 substrate docking in site-specific acetylation of p53.

Psychology

Dr MS Zeedyk: £46,584 from Economic and Social Research Council for parental involvement in the development of self-awareness in early infancy (joint with University of Portsmouth).

School of Life Sciences

Prof JJ Blow: £177,000 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for use of oocyte and egg extracts to reprogramme nuclear function in mammalian cells.

Dr C Halpin: £201,010 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for illuminating the cell biology of lignification using live imaging microscopy.

Prof JJ Blow and Dr JR Swedlow: £100,052 from Cancer Research UK for proteomic identification of novel cell cycle regulated chromatin and chromosome-associated proteins.

Surgery & Molecular Oncology

Dr BA Spruce: £39,483 from Cancer Research UK for the sigma receptor: a new target for the treatment of cancer.

Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust

Ms AE Wright: £2,460 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for Do Mothers Recall Information About Newborn Screening Programmes?: An investigation of short-term recall.

Industrial Awards

Applied Computing
Prof IW Ricketts: £18,000
Dr GPH Gregor: £1,000
Dr GPH Gregor: £470

Anaesthesia
Prof JAW Wildsmith: £56,462

Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe: £43,083

Design
Mr D Townson: £8,225

Geography
Dr O Bragg: £1,297
Mr DS Houston: £19,950

Medicine
Prof JJF Belch, Dr F Khan, Prof PA Stonebridge, Mrs R Levison (Medical Physics) and Prof AD Struthers (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics): £62,980
Prof JJF Belch, Mr SJ McSwiggan, Dr A Strang and Dr E Dow (Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £28,200

Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Dr D Bowen: £300

Psychiatry
Prof K Matthews: £7,000
Dr DR Coghill: £6,580

School of Life Sciences
Prof Sir P Cohen: £9,400


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