Research Grants

Total research income this month: £5,620,567.40

Applied Computing

Dr N Alm: £46,196 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

Architecture

Ms F Stevenson: £10,325 from The Lighthouse Trust Ltd for ecological design gateway: resource information for ecological design in Scotland.

Ms F Stevenson: £2,000 from Scottish Ecological Design Association for ecological design gateway: resource information for ecological design in Scotland.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr PR Clarke: £450 from Cancer Research UK for Cancer Research UK Travel Award - senior cancer research fellowship.

Dr PR Clarke: £25,851 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of the apoptosis-promoting factor, Apaf-1 (studentship - Ms M Lickrish).

Dr PR Clarke: £26,601 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of apoptosis: the control of caspase-9 by reversible phosphorylation (studentship - Ms S Brady).

Dr PR Clarke: £450 from Cancer Research UK for Cancer Research UK travel award - PhD studentship, Beaston Cell Signalling and Cancer Conference, Glasgow.

Dr PR Clarke: £450 from Cancer Research UK for Cancer Research UK travel award - PhD studentship, Beaston Cell Signalling and Cancer Conference, Glasgow.

Civil Engineering

Prof PA Davies: £55,693 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Prof AD Struthers, Dr JI Davies and Prof JJF Belch (Medicine): £173,194 from British Heart Foundation for mechanistic insights and therapeutic opportunities arising from Allopurinol improving endothlial dysfunction.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Dr J Clarkson: £6,367 from NHS Education for Scotland for the competencies of dental vocational training and general professional training in Scotland (Ms Linda Young - extension).

Dental School

Prof S Schor, Dr AM Schor, Dr CA Purdie (Molecular & Cellular Pathology) and Prof AM Thompson (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £41,260 from The Breast Cancer Campaign for initial assessment of MSF expression in breast cancer: association with angiogenesis markers.

Dr CH Lloyd: £16,203 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

Dermatology

Dr PE Beattie, Dr RS Dawe, Prof J Ferguson and Dr SH Ibbotson: £50,000 from British Skin Foundation for an investigation of the clinical and photobiological effects of UVA in humans using a high output source (fellowship).

Electronic Engineering and Physics

Dr DM Goldie: £7,089 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

Fine Art

Ms T Mackenna: £15,000 from Wellcome Trust for sciart research & development award "Euthanasia".

General Practice

Mr C McCowan, Prof T Fahey, Dr P Donnan and Prof AM Thompson (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £195,331 from Medical Research Council for clinical prediction rule for symptomatic breast clinic referrals of women presenting with problems in general practice (Special Research Training Fellowship).

Dr ME Inkster, Prof T Fahey, Dr PT Donnan and Prof D Murphy (Maternal and Child Health Sciences): £85,304 from Chief Scientist Office for the outcome of pregnancy in diabetic women: systematic review and cohort study of individual patients data in a geographically-defined population over a 10 year period (Research Training Fellowship).

Geography

Dr JS Rowan: £3,661 from The Royal Society for outgoing study visit to University of Newcastle, New Zealand.

History

Prof C McKean: £200 from The British Academy for overseas conference grant (La Maison des Champs de la Renaissance 2003).

Dr JM Cornwall: £360 from The British Academy for overseas conference grant - American association for the advancement of slavic studies 35th national convention.

Mathematics

Dr FA Davidson and Prof GM Gadd (School of Life Sciences): £40,860 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for fungal growth and biochemical activity in the soil environment (research committee studentship: Mr AD Bowen).

Prof MAJ Chaplain: £44,700 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

Mechanical Engineering

Dr EW Abel: £35,256 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

Medicine

Prof AD Morris, Dr SR McEwan, Prof CD Forbes, Dr JS Forsyth (Maternal and Child Health Sciences), Dr S Greene (Maternal and Child Health Sciences), Mrs G Libby (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics) and Prof DJ Murphy (Maternal and Child Health Sciences): £30,145 from Scottish Heart and Arterial disease Risk Prevention for predictors of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in Scotland: an intergenerational study.

Prof AS Anderson and Prof RJC Steele (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £21,047 from Cancer Research UK for the development and evaluation of a family based intervention aimed at changing diet and physical activity in people at moderate to high risk of colo-rectal cancer (studentship - Mr S Caswell).

Molecular & Cellular Pathology

Dr WHI McLean: £409,814 from Wellcome Trust for transgenic and human genetics studies in keratinizing disorders (senior fellowship).

Prof WHI McLean: £58,500 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Assessment for kindler syndrome: an inducible mouse model for gene therapy development (joint with St Thomas' Hospital, London).

Prof B Burchell: £62,500 from Wellcome Trust for value in people award scheme.

Nursing & Midwifery

Ms J Harris and Dr J Taylor: £9,876 from Scottish Executive for research literature review on prescribing.

Pharmacology & Neuroscience

Dr BG Frenguelli: £4,200 from Tenovus Tayside for helping the brain help itself: improving the availability of a naturally-occurring protective chemical after stroke.

Prof MLJ Ashford: £98,400 from Wellcome Trust for examination of the contribution of AMPK to glucose sensing in hypothalamic neurones (prize studentship: Mr Craig Beall).

Prof MLJ Ashford: £40,860 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for characterisation of signalling pathways responsible for oxidative stress-induced cation currents (Research Studentship - Miss LC Miller).

Psychology

Dr F Sani and Dr M Bennett: £36,926.65 from Economic and Social Research Council for the ingroup becomes part of the self: the genesis of children’s sense of "we".

DR M Bennett: £119,935 from Economic and Social Research Council for becoming aware that you are the authority on knowledge about yourself (joint with University of Nottingham).

Prof JB Todman: £11,949 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

Registry

Dr N Laker: £12,827 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

School of Life Sciences

Prof C Tickle: £176,294.56 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for identification of the talpid3 mutant gene and its target genes.

Prof C Tickle: £845,047 from Medical Research Council for signalling vertebrate limb development (programme grant).

Dr S Matthews: £180,825 from The Royal Society for the role if PKD family kinases in the biology of B lymphocytes (Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship).

Prof EB Lane and Dr DR Goudie (Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £43,557 from Cancer Research UK for identification and characterisation of the gene for multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma.

Prof EB Lane: £143,693 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Assessment for study of mechanisms behind the cell fragility of EBS.

Dr JM Lucocq: £49,869 from Lowe Syndrome Trust for Ocril and its lipid products - high resolution localisation and their role in membrane traffic and cell polarity.

Prof JJ Blow: £263,893 from Cancer Research UK for analysis of proteins required for the initiation of chromosome replication.

Prof EB Lane: £1,471 from Cancer Research UK for expression and function of intermediate filaments in Epithelial differentiation (supplement).

Dr ND Perkins: £54,164 from The Royal Society for cell cycle control of NF-KB function regulates inducible HIV-1 gene expression (Research Fellowship).

Prof DG Hardie: £91,248 from Wellcome Trust for functions and N-terminal domains in the AMP activated protein kinase gamma subunits (prize studentship - Mr Jan Keung David Liu.

Dr TK Smith: £98,425 from Wellcome Trust for lipid remodelling in protozoan parasites (Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship: GS Richmond).

Dr T Owen-Hughes: £91,248 from Wellcome Trust for an investigation into the pathway for chromatin remodelling at the yeast HO promoter (prize studentship: T Gikopoulos).

Prof CJ Weijer: £40,860 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for FGF signalling and maintenance of notochord forming stem cells in node (research committee studentship).

Dr T Tanaka: £40,860 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for DNA replication and the establishment of sister chromatid cohesion (research committee studentship).

Prof JJ Blow: £40,860 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for reprogramming replication timing in somatic nuclei (research committee studentship).

Prof MAJ Ferguson: £40,860 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for the development of high-sensitivity methods for the detection and classification of UDP-Gal transporters and Gal-transferases (research committee studentship).

Prof JJ Blow: £25,851 from Cancer Research UK for Mcm-associated proteins in normal and checkpointed cell division cycles (studentship - Mr G Stewart).

Prof DMJ Lilley: £188 from Cancer Research UK for Cancer Research UK travel award - PhD studentship, 5th Cambridge symposium - nucleic acids chemistry and biology.

Prof CP Downes: £187,500 from Wellcome Trust for value in people award scheme.

Surgery & Molecular Oncology

Dr KL Ball: £135,621 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of tumour modifiers in cell growth and gene expression (Senior Fellowship).

Prof RJC Steele: £11,733 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for doctoral training grant.

Dr KL Ball: £25,851 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of the IRF-1 tumour suppressor protein (studentship - Ms MJ Eckert).

Prof Sir DP Lane: £26,601 from Cancer Research UK for discovering novel non-genotoxic activators of the p53 response (studentship - Ms R Berkson).

Wider Access Study Centre

Dr JRD Blicharski: £15,000 from The Sutton Trust for emerging from exclusion through education to employment.

Industrial Awards

Applied Computing
Dr GPH Gregor: £2,500

Civil Engineering
Prof MCR Davies: £15,000
Dr MF Bransby: £5,728.13

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof BJ Lipworth: £120,000

Dental School
Prof GR Ogden (joint with University of Glasgow): £130,113

Electronic Engineering & Physics
Prof AG Fitzgerald: £411.25
Prof AG Fitzgerald: £188

Fine Art
Mr MN Dalziel and Ms L Scullion: £10,000

Geography
Dr O Bragg: £5,173

Medicine
Prof JJF Belch, Mr SJ McSwiggan and Prof PA Stonebridge: £191,319
Prof JJF Belch, Mr SJ McSwiggan and Prof PA Stonebridge: £191,319
Prof JJF Belch, Prof PA Stonebridge and Dr C Underwood: £24,381
Dr WL Wrieden (joint with Aberdeen and Glasgow Caledonian Universities): £11,350

Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Prof B Burchell and Dr MWH Coughtrie: £316,711

Psychiatry
Dr B Kidd: £5,000

School of Life Sciences
Prof MAJ Ferguson: £40,000
Prof JA Raven: £587.50

Town & Regional Planning
Dr WM Edgar: £119,486.48


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