Research Grants

Total research income this month: £6,366,801.40

Applied Computing

Dr A Waller: £5,430 from Anonymous Trust for providing physically disabled children with access to manipulate synthetic phonetics.

Dr N Alm & Mr GM Gowans (Design): £4,480 from Anonymous Trust to purchase a large format LCD touch screen with a mobile table and adjustable monitor arm and a camcorder.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr T Friedberg & Mr A Thompson (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £83,050 from The Breast Cancer Campaign for cancer risk and therapy outcome: A mechanistic link to CYP1B1 polymorphisms?

Dr PR Clarke: £46,064 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of apoptosis by intracellular signals.

Dr LI McLellan: £5,871 from Anonymous Trust for antioxidant proteins that modulate cell proliferation and cell death: a search for novel binding partners of the peroxiredoxins.

Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit

Dr R Chen: £2,000 from Universities’ China Committee in London for blood pressure control in older people in China. The rule of halves re-visited and effect of socio-economic deprivation on its control.

Child Health

Dr A Jovanovic: £170,368 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for phenotypic characterisation of the heart overexpressing sulfonylurea receptor 2A.

Dr R Muimo: £1,220 from The Royal Society for conference travel grant.

Dr SC Land: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for role of thymic hormones in determining fetal lung development in health and inflammatory disease states.

Dr RM Crawford: £4,942 from Anonymous Trust for proteins associated with ATP-sensitiveK+ channels in skeletal muscle.

Dr A Jovanovic: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for overexpressions of SUR2A levels: a strategy to protect the heart against myocardial infarction.

Dr S Jovanovic: £4,950 from Anonymous Trust for the role of M=LDH bound to sarcolemmal KATP channels in preconditioning.

Dr AM Davies: £4,850 from Anonymous Trust for estrogens and cardioprotection.

Dr A Mehta: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for the function of protein kinase.

Dr R Muimo: £4,990 from Anonymous Trust for the study of mechanism linking CFTR and NDP kinase B.

Civil Engineering

Prof RMW Horner: £207,024 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for metrics, models and toolkits for whole life sustainable urban development - a scoping study (joint with Glasgow Caledonian University and University of Loughborough.

Dr CQ Li: £18,329 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for a time-dependent model for structural resistance in risk assessment for infrastructure.

Dr MF Bransby, Prof MCR Davies & Dr C Halpin (School of Life Sciences): £47,269 from Medical Research Council for applying geotechnical engineering to plant root biomechanical behaviour (joint with SCRI).

Prof MCR Davies & Dr MF Bransby: £152,035 from CEC Environment and Climate Programme for QUAKER.

Prof RK Dhir, Dr MR Jones, Dr TD Dyer & Dr JE Halliday: £193,900 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for UK survey of dioxins and furans in construction products.

Prof RK Dhir, Dr KA Paine & Dr MJ McCarthy: £151,863 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for repackaging of previous research on use of waste materials and concrete to facilitate sustainable urban development.

Prof RK Dhir & Dr TD Dyer: £290,400 from The Waste and Resources Action Programme and Industrial Sponsors for promoting best practicable options for the commercially sustainable use of glass cullet in construction.

Dr TD Dyer, Dr LH Cheyetni & Prof RK Dhir: £197,013 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for oil drill cuttings for construction related value added uses.

Dr TD Dyer: £54,050 from EPSRC and Industrial Sponsor for application of life-cycle analysis to determine routes of minimal environment impact for using waste materials in construction (CASE Studentship: Mrs MJ Duff).

Dr MR Jones, Dr TD Dyer & Prof RK Dhir: 160,363 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for a feasibility study: opportunities for creating medium-value construction products via demolition waste reconstruction.

Dr MR Jones: £1,175 from Industrial Sponsor for review of construction materials for low-level waste containment.

Dr MR Jones & Dr TD Dyer: £57,000 from Foundation for the Built Environment for influence of brownfield soil contaminants on the performance of fresh and early age concrete (Studentship: Mr J McKeever).

Dr MJ McCarthy & Prof RK Dhir: £44,000 from Department of Trade and Industry for design formwork pressures for the range of new cement, superplasticized and self-compacting concretes.

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Dr D Hogg & Dr JI Davies: £3,015 from Anonymous Trust for why does vascular angiotension II conversion reactive in patients with chronic heart failure on chronic ace inhibitor therapy.

Dr GP Currie: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for evaluation of tiotropium bromide in chronic severe persistent asthma.

Prof BJ Lipworth: £4,750 from Anonymous Trust for effects of butterbur or allergic mediator blockade on nasal adenosine monophosphate challenge with perennial allergic rhinitis.

Prof BJ Lipworth: £4,250 from Anonymous Trust for comparative in vivo bioactivity of modern H1 - antihistamines in perennial allergic rhinitis.

Dr RD Gray: £4,200 from Anonymous Trust for pharmacological characteristics of adenosine monophosphate (AMP) mediated allergic inflammation in the nose and skin in atopic individuals.

Dr RD Gray: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for the use of corticotrophin releasing factor as a novel bronchial challenge.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Dr J Clarkson: £12,600 from NHS Education for Scotland for the competencies for dental vocational training & general professional training in Scotland (Mrs Linda Young).

Dr C Longbottom, Dr K Ekstrand, Prof NB Pitts & Dr HM MacRitchie: £5,200 from Tayside Primary Care NHS Trust for further development of caries risk model in a 9 year old cohort previously examined at 1 to 4 weeks.

Dental School

Dr CME Tait: £6,000 from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for general research (pump priming) grant.

Prof GR Ogden: £47,877 from Wellcome Trust for what is the natural history of impacted third molars?

Dr AM Schor & Dr SJ Jones: £4,907 from Anonymous Trust for the isolation of an inhibitor of angiogenesis produced by endothelial cells.

Design

Mr R Morris: £5,000 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for out of the showcase - the meaning of jewellery in the digital age.

Epidemiology

Mr S MacGillivray & Dr DA Bruce (General Practice): £4,310 from Tayside Primary Care Research & Development Network (TAYREN) for a cochrane collaboration systematic review and meta-analysis: the efficacy of antidepressants for the treatment of depression in elderly primary care patients.

Dr FLR Williams & Prof R Hume (Child Health): £4,833 from Anonymous Trust for iodine deficiency and estimation in Scotland.

History

Dr W Kenefick: £1,971.41 from Canadian High Commission for Canadian studies faculty research program.

Mathematics

Prof MAJ Chaplain: £4,336 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for international meeting on mathematical biology, 6-9 August 2003.

Medicine

Dr F Khan, Prof JJF Belch & Prof AD Struthers (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics): £17,691 from National Heart Research Fund for the association between high urate levels, endothelial function and arterial stiffness in stroke survivors: effects of treatment with allopurinol.

Dr F Khan & Dr M McLaren: £20,128 from MERGE (ME Research Group for Education and Support) for further investigation of the vascular biology of chronic fatigue syndrome (extension).

Dr G Kennedy: £510 from The Royal Society for conference grant.

Prof MET McMurdo: £14,738 from Chief Scientist Office for double blind placebo controlled trial of the effectiveness of cranberry juice ingestion in the prevention of urinary infection in elderly hospital patients (supplement).

Dr MD Witham & Dr ND Gillespie: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for 3 year follow up of elderly patients with heart failure: which factors predict outcome?

Prof AD Morris, Dr A Doney (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics) & Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre): £4,750 from Anonymous Trust for derivation of genetic substructure of the DARTS population for genetic studies.

Dr A Waring: £4,044 from Anonymous Trust for predicting clinical outcomes in systemic sclerosis.

Dr F Khan, Prof JJF Belch & Dr T Pullar: £4,692 from Anonymous Trust for effects of statin treatment on Vascular Function in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Dr G Kennedy, Prof JJF Belch & Dr M McLaren: £2,400 from Anonymous Trust for do patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have increased platelet activation?

Prof MET McMurdo & Ms S Fettes (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics): £11,790 from The PPP Foundation for nutritional status of elderly patients after discharge from hospital and the effect of oral supplementation (supplement).

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre), Prof AD Struthers (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics) & Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe (Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit): £300,000 from The Gannochy Trust for funds to refurbish laboratory within TICR.

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre), Dr AM Schor (Dental School), Prof S Schor (Dental School), Prof AD Struthers (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics) & Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe (Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit): £400,000 from The Wolfson Foundation for development of a clinical research facility within the institute of cardiovascular research (TICR).

Molecular & Cellular Pathology

Dr FV Fuller-Pace: £72,150 from Association for International Cancer Research for SUMO-2 modification of the "DEAD box" protein p68: functional analysis and role in tumour development.

Dr DU Baty, Dr WHI McLean & Prof EB Lane (School of Life Sciences): £63,367 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association for DNA handling and mutation detection in skin fragility disorders.

Dr D Bowen: £30,000 from Leukaemia Research Fund for denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography detection of potential transforming mutations in acute myeloid leukaemia.

Prof S Flemming: £8,500 from Tenovus Tayside for investigation of a prorenin receptor in renal cell carcinoma.

Dr PE Ross & Dr TR Hupp: £8,000 from Tenovus Tayside for regulation of a novel stress protein system in oesophageal disease.

Prof B Burchell: £4,400 from Anonymous Trust for analysis of neonatal jaundice caused by genetic polymorphism in the human oatp2 gene.

Dr M Csala: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for identification of the glucuronide transporters in the liver endoplasmic reticulum.

Dr MWH Coughtrie: £3,060 from Anonymous Trust for factors influencing individual response to drug therapy.

Dr MJ Hopkins: £4,706 from Anonymous Trust for role of enterococcal virulence factors in ulcerative colitis.

Dr PJ Coates: £2,511 from Anonymous Trust for phosphorylation of p53 following ionizing radiation.

Ms S Lorimore: £4,900 from Anonymous Trust for myelodysplastic syndromes.

Mrs S Sharp: £1,081 from Anonymous Trust for steroid sulfatase in breast cancer - a novel risk factor?

Prof G Macfarlane: £4,820 from Anonymous Trust for development of probiotics and prebiotics as prophylactic and therapeutic agents in bacterial infections of the gastrointestinal tract.

Dr S Macfarlane: £4,935 from Anonymous Trust for analysis of mucosal bacteria populations in patients with ulcerative colitis using real-time PCR.

Dr D Bowen: £4,500 from Anonymous Trust for defining the molecular progression of biological subgroups of acute myeloid leukaemia.

Dr NM Kernohan: £4,500 from Anonymous Trust for identification of down-stream pathways implicated in the modulation of oesophageal epithelial cell apoptosis v bile acids.

Prof JH Cummings: £6,250 from Anonymous Trust for compliance of ulcerative colitis patients with a low sulphur diet.

Dr L Christie: £4,000 from Anonymous Trust for expression studies of distal tubule in rad isoform 4A null kidney.

Dr PE Ross: £4,650 from Anonymous Trust for defence mechanisms of the oesphagael epithelium.

Dr R Fearns: £4,891 from Anonymous Trust for investigation of mechanisms by which respiratory syncytial virus diabetes host innate defences.

Dr E Furrie: £4,626 from Anonymous Trust for assessment of the cytokines and defensins induced by potential probiotic bifidobacteria for the treatment of ulcerative colitis.

Ms SE Perry: £3,068 from Anonymous Trust for isolation and analysis of the cell division complex from a pathogenic bacterium.

Dr SC Kong: £6,600 from Anonymous Trust for studying the interaction between colonic mucosal cells and bacteria in the large intestines of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC).

Nursing & Midwifery

Mrs S Gall, Dr L Elliot & Dr RA Brown (Mathematics): £165,607 from National Schizophrenia Fellowship Scotland for meeting the support needs of carers of people diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Dr AG Symon, Prof T Inns (Design) & Prof J Paul (Architecture): £214,035 from NHS Estates Research & Development Fund for the effects of interior environmental design on patients & staff in maternity facilities.

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Prof A Burchell: £4,825 from Anonymous Trust for the molecular basis and prevention of intrauterine growth retardation.

Orthopaedics

Mr F Harrold & Dr CA Wigderowitz: £4,915 from Anonymous Trust for surgical planning in shoulder arthoplasty using three-dimensional magnetic resonance (MR) and x-ray imaging to determine the geometry of the proximal humeus.

Otolaryngology

Mr OJ Hilmi & Dr EW Abel (Mechanical Engineering): £4,950 from Anonymous Trust for a study of drill generated noise induced hearing loss in ear surgery.

Pharmacology & Neuroscience

Dr JA Peters: £4,500 from Anonymous Trust for a unique determinant of single channel conductance in the Group 1 neurotransmitter receptor family.

Prof JJ Lambert: £3,015 from Anonymous Trust for the molecular mechanism of general anaesthetics: A 150 year mystery solved?

Prof MLJ Ashford: £4,500 from Anonymous Trust for oxidative stress and cell death.

Dr CD Sutherland: £4,700 from Anonymous Trust for characterisation of early indicator for obesity-induced type II diabetes mellitus.

Dr J Harvey: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for leptin: a novel anti-epileptic agent?

Dr BG Frenguelli: £5,105 from Anonymous Trust for electrophysiological equipment for long-lasting recordings during in vitro models of learning and memory.

Dr GA Lyles: £4,900 from Anonymous Trust for inhibition of nitric oxide synthase induction in vascular smooth muscle cells by aldosterone and spironolactone: an indicator of their anti-inflammatory potential?

Dr CN Connolly: £5,200 from Anonymous Trust for the role of extrasynaptic glutamate receptors in excitotoxicty.

Politics

Prof A Black: £888 from The Nuffield Foundation for ancient political thought in a global context.

Dr R Dunphy: £5,000 from The British Academy for there is no alternative? Prospect and precedents for socialist and left party survival in the twenty first century.

Psychiatry

Dr KC Breen: £4,500 from Anonymous Trust for the identification of potential therapeutic targets in Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr GW Boyd: £4,850 from Anonymous Trust for control of the cell surface expression of ligand-gated ion channels.

Dr A Baldacchino: £19,601 from CEC Public Health for psychonaut 2002 internet and drug addiction.

Psychology

Dr TA Harley: £59,596 from Parkinson’s Disease Society for conversation and dialogue in people with Parkinson’s disease.

Dr F Sani: £4,890 from The British Academy for extending the social psychological model of schisms in social groups.

Dr E Nagy: £1,120 from The Royal Society for conference grant.

School of Life Sciences

Prof CG Proud: £178,240 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for functional characterisation of ABC50, a novel component of the translational machinery of mammalian cells.

Prof PT Cohen: £135,435 from Diabetes UK for investigation of the roles of the glycogen-targeting subunits of protein phosphatase 1 in action of insulin and the development of impaired glucose tolerance and obesity.

Dr N Mukae & Dr T Tanaka: £79,480 from Wellcome Trust for genetic and molecular dissection of the mechanism to ensure chromosome bi-orientation in yeast (Wellcome Travelling Fellowship).

Prof EB Lane: £141,528 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association for identification of mutations and mechanisms in EBS.

Dr ND Perkins: £34,130 from Association for International Cancer Research for the cellular function of SNIP1, a nuclear repressor of p53 and NF-kB transcriptional activity.

Dr HS Hundal & Dr CD Sutherland (Pharmacology & Neuroscience): £116,201 from Diabetes UK for glycogen synthase kinase-3: potential importance and significance in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance.

Dr HS Hundal & Dr PM Taylor: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for the role of system A and system L amino acid and transporters in tumour growth and proliferation.

Prof JJ Blow & Dr JR Swedlow: £98,594 from Cancer Research UK for proteomic identification of novel cell cycle regulated chromatin and chromosome-associated proteins.

Dr HS Hundal: £29,681 from Diabetes Research Wellness Foundation for molecular mechanisms contributing to the pathogenesis of insulin resistance in skeletal muscle.

Dr IS Nathke: £71,723 from Cancer Research UK for the adenomatous polyposis coli protein in cell cycle regulation.

Dr DR Alessi & Prof Sir P Cohen: £134,932 from Diabetes UK for role of glycogen synthase kinase-3 in insulin signalling.

Dr AA Harper: £4,753 from Anonymous Trust for gap junctional communication between intracardiac neurons: change from birth to old age.

Prof C Tickle: £24,154.82 from The Royal Society for pattern formation invertebrate embryos with special reference to limbs (Foulerton Research Professorship: supplement for year 2).

Dr JR Bayascas Ramirez: £74,277 from CEC Improving Human Potential Marie Curie Fellowship for the role of PH-domain in regulating PDK1 Activity.

Dr KG Storey & Dr JD Swedlow: £24,155 from Wellcome Trust for characterisation and control of asymmetric cell division in the neural tube (studentship: Ms A Wilcock).

Prof AH Fairlamb: £42,468 from Wellcome Trust for fatty acid biosynthesis as a chemotherapeutic target in malaria parasite.

Surgery & Molecular Oncology

Prof Sir DP Lane: £40,000 from Cancer Research UK for ABI PRISM 7000 sequence detection system (equipment).

Prof Sir DR Lane & Dr S Lain: £300,000 from Tenovus Tayside for the Dundee cancer therapeutic discovery facility.

Mr MA Thaha: £38,910 from Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education for SCPMDE fellowship.

Mr AM Thompson & Prof CR Wolf (Biomedical Research Centre): £500,000 from Breast Cancer Research (Scotland) for establishment of a breast cancer (Scotland) centre at Ninewells Hospital.

Dr PA Campbell: £3,900 from Anonymous Trust to investigate the possibility of cellular transvection by the phenomenon of microstreaming.

Mr SM Shimi: £5,080 from Anonymous Trust for is prevention of post-operative adhesions deleterious to anastomotic wound healing.

Tayside University Hospitals NHST

Dr LA Jamieson: £3,900 from Anonymous Trust for prorenin receptor expresion in renal cell carcinoma.

Visual Research Centre

Mr P Rooney: £4,850 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for music and the everyday: an exhibition and related catalogue.

Industrial Awards

Applied Computing
Dr N Hine: £2,020
Dr SJ McKenna: £153,930
Mr D Sloan, Mr S Milne, Dr GPH Gregor & Miss L Gibson: £34,595
Dr GPH Gregor: £4,550
Dr GPH Gregor: £200
Dr GPH Gregor: £200

Biomedical Research Centre
Prof CR Wolf: £15,000

Child Health
Dr S Mukhopadhyay, Prof BJ Lipworth (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics) & Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre): £120,000

Civil Engineering
Dr TA Newson: £4,112.50
Dr MF Bransby, Prof MCR Davies & Dr TA Newson: £6,613
Prof RMW Horner: £11,750

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof TM MacDonald: £39,950

Dental Health Services Research Unit
Prof NB Pitts, Dr NM Nuttall & Dr ZJ Nugent: £72,719

Design
Mr R Ashcroft: £2,000

General Practice
Mr C McCowan: £14,874.76
Mrs G Hoskins & Mr C McCowan: £41,125

Geography
Dr RW Duck & Prof MCR Davies (Civil Engineering): £15,000
Dr O Bragg: £1,955

Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Dr MWH Coughtrie: £36,275

Orthopaedics
Prof DI Rowley: £15,000
Prof DI Rowley: £15,000
Prof DI Rowley: £15,000

Safety Office
Dr I Scragg: £1,500

School of Life Sciences
Dr A Jones: £9,400

Social Work
Mr MK Simpson & Dr D May: £10,000


Next Page
Return to May 2003 Contact