Research Grants

Total research income this month: £26,126,503.00

Applied Computing

Dr N Hine: £34,862 from CEC Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for world wide augmentative and alternative communication (WWAAC).

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr DW Brighty, Dr PG McIntyre and Dr AJ France (Medicine): £164,810 from Chief Scientist Office for characterising antibody responses to fusion-active envelope proteins of human immunodeficiency virus and exploring the sensitivity of clinical HIV isolates to antagonists of envelope function.

Dr D Meek: £36,576 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of p53 induction through multisite phosphorylation of the acidic domain of Mdm2.

Dr D Couch: £7,449 from Tenovus Tayside for ERM proteins: their role in cell growth, transformation and apoptosis.

Prof E Rankin: £49,950 from Cancer Medicine Research Travel Fund for changes in cognitive function in patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Prof CR Wolf: £186,566 from Cancer Research UK for Biomedical Research Centre.

Prof CR Wolf: £370,975 from Cancer Research UK for Biomedical Research Centre.

Prof CR Wolf: £55,000 from Cancer Research UK for Estates Award.

Civil Engineering

Prof PA Davies: £135,502 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for boundary effects on internal solitary waves.

Dr P Dong: £9,409 from The Royal Academy of Engineering for a study of the long-term morphological processes of the Yellow River estuary and adjacent coastline.

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Dr JI Davies, Prof AD Struthers & Dr M McLaren (Medicine): £3,198 from National Heart Research Fund for does the adolescence blockade with spironolactone worsen biological markers of endothelial function and oxidative stress in a population of type II diabetic patients.

Dental School

Prof S Schor: £30,075 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for a multi-disciplinary study of new blood vessel formation: An emergent tissue-level phenomenon (joint with University of Nottingham).

Dermatology

Dr PE Beattie, Dr RS Dawe, Prof J Ferguson & Dr SH Ibbotson: £3,750 from British Association of Dermatologists for erthemal charateristics of VA-1 using a high output source (study fellowship).

Prof J Ferguson & Prof M Padgett (Glasgow University): £20,000 from Barbara Stewart Cancer Trust with the aim of developing an optical biopsy system for widespread clinical use in a diverse range of applications.

Prof J Ferguson & Drug Development (Scotland): £168,000 for a study into the investigation of the effects of orally administered prednisolone on efficacy using ultraviolet erythema technique

Education

Prof KJ Topping: £73,754.92 from Economic and Social Research Council for supporting group work in Scottish schools: age and the urban/rural divide (joint with University of Strathclyde).

English

Prof PJ Kilson: £560 from The British Academy for placing romanticism: sites, borders forms (overseas conference grant).

Dr GCL Low: £732 from The British Academy for society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) annual conference (overseas conference grant).

Prof PJ Kilson: £2,000 from The British Academy for representations of China in the Romantic Period.

Epidemiology

Dr JMM Evans, Mr SA Ogston, Prof AD Morris (Medicine) & Dr AE Emslie-Smith (Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics): £8,552 from Diabetes UK for risks of mortality and adverse cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes: a comparison of patients treated with sulphonylureas and metformin.

Dr JMM Evans & Prof AD Morris (Medicine): £9,872 from Diabetes UK for living by numbers: self-monitoring patterns among people with type 2 diabetes (joint with University of Edinburgh).

General Practice

Prof T Fahey, Mr C McCowan & Dr PT Donnan: £12,477 from Breast Cancer Research Scotland Centre Dundee for improving breast cancer diagnosis and management in primary care.

Geography

Dr H Parr: £150,103.87 from Economic and Social Research Council for embodied geographies of inclusion: placing difference (Research Fellowship).

Dr NR Fyfe: £49,245 from Economic and Social Research Council and Industrial Partner for space, place and volunteers; the nature, meaning and impact of volunteering in Scotland (CASE Studentship: Helen Timbrell).

History

Dr CD Storrs: £13,153 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for the resilience of Spain as a European and global power 1665-1700 (research leave scheme).

Dr MC Ward: £13,153 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for the ethnicity, social status and military conflict in the mid-eighteenth century: a case study of Quebec (research leave scheme).

Law

Mr RM White: £7,258 from The Leverhulme Trust for UK prosecution services and their accountability.

Prof C Reid: £40,170 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for the evolution of legal controls of hydro-electric dams in Scotland: the emergence of environmental concerns.

Dr PK Wouters: £23,064 from NATO Science Programme for advanced research workshop integrated water resources management on the transboundary basin-interstate and intersectoral approach.

Maternal & Child Health Sciences

Dr A Mehta: £75,146 from Wellcome Trust for how do airway cells cope with osmotic stress? - investigating links between protein kinases, hyperosmolar stress and ciliary activity (travelling fellowship: G Sijumbila).

Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £2,875 from Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland for longitudinal evaluation of lung function in rural India.

Dr KJ Robertson: £6,952 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for characterisation of chromosomal abnormalities in gastrointestinal malignancies using fluorescent in situ hybridisation techniques on tissue micro-arrays.

Mathematics

Prof T Goodman: £1,093 from The Royal Society for a conference grant.

Prof GA Watson: £500 from The Royal Society for a conference grant.

Mechanical Engineering

Dr ZY Huang: £5,000 from The Nuffield Foundation for a novel approach to ultrasonic tool optimisation by finite element simulation.

Dr EW Abel: £3,000 from The Henry Lester Trust Ltd for research expenses for Dr Cui Mao.

Medicine

Dr MD Witham & Prof MET McMurdo: £19,531 from Chief Scientist Office for validation of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire, the patients generated index and the SF-12 in older patients with heart failure and comorbid disease.

Prof AS Anderson: £2,700 from Awards for All Scotland for berries on the menu in Tayside Primary Schools (in conjunction with The Berry Scotland Programme).

Prof JJF Belch, Dr SR McEwan & Prof AD Morris: £5,000 from The Jeffrey Charitable Trust for the prevention of progression of arterial disease in diabetes (POPADAD) study Nurses account.

Dr DJ Newton: £500 from The Royal Society for a conference grant.

Molecular & Cellular Pathology

Dr WHI McLean: £113,637 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Assessment for ribozyme gene therapy for dowling-meara epidermolysis bullosa simplex.

Mr MJ Groves & Dr D Bowen: £9,942.80 from Tenovus Tayside for mutation screening of p53 gene in acute myeloid Leukaemia using wave DNA fragment analysis and the functional yeast assay.

Prof EG Wright: £44,800 from Medical Research Council for genetic and molecular determinants of haemopoietic system responses to ionising radiation (equipment supplement scheme).

Dr D Bowen: £2,500 from Tenovus Tayside for RAS mutation screening in patients with congenital neutropenia: a prospective cohort study.

Dr SJ White, Prof WHI McLean & Prof S Flemming: £130,846 from Medical Research Council for an inducible model kindler syndrome (clinical research training fellowship).

Dr KE Robertson, Dr CA Purdie, Dr N Pratt, Dr FA Carey & Ms A Leslie (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £60,000 from Breast Cancer Research Scotland Centre Dundee from CGH to FISH. The clinical application of cytogenetics to further our understanding of the molecular pathways involved in the pathogenesis and progression of breast and other epithelial cancers.

Dr R Fearns: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for analysis of a replication enhancing region in the respiratory syncytial virus antigenome (vacation scholarship - Ms H R Malcolm).

Dr J Berg: £9,000 from Tenovus Tayside for identifying why different mutations in ALK1 cause the different phenotypes hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia and primary pulmonary hypertension.

Dr TR Hupp: £176,558 from Cancer Research UK for signal transduction pathways regulating the tumour suppressor p53.

Pharmacology & Neuroscience

Prof MLJ Ashford: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for leptin regulation of cytoskeletal dynamics (vacation scholarship: Ms Erin B Anderson).

Dr AJ Irving: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for regulation the surface expression of cannabinoid CB1 receptors (vacation scholarship - Mr Neil D Anderson).

Dr CD Sutherland, Dr DJR Cuthbertson (Medicine), Prof AD Struthers (Medicine), Dr M Murphy (Molecular & Cellular Pathology) & Dr JR Petrie (Medicine): £168,449 from Chief Scientist Office for an analysis of the molecular and biochemical defects in insulin action associated with human obesity-induced insulin resistance.

Dr CD Sutherland: £8,000 from Tenovus Tayside for identification of a protein, important in insulin regulation of gene expression, that may be defective in diabetes.

Prof MLJ Ashford: £7,500 from Tenovus Tayside for Brain energy, obesity and diabetes.

Dr D Belelli: £6,000 from Tenovus Tayside for tonic inhibitory transmission and absence epilepsy (petit mal).

Dr CN Connolly: £7,600 from Tenovus Tayside to investigate a novel form of GABA(A) receptor regulation in the nervous system: generating receptor diversity by the spatial segregation of distinct 'receptor sub-type factories'.

Dr CD Sutherland: £1,600 from The Nuffield Foundation for hormonal regulation of the Alzheimers-linked Tau protein (undergraduate bursary: A Pomfret).

Philosophy

Dr JR Williams: £13,153 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for a critical analysis of Gilles Deleuze's difference and repetition (research leave scheme).

Psychiatry

Dr SR Rhodes & Dr DR Coghill: £4,400 from The British Academy for developmental changes in cognitive functioning in girls from middle childhood to adolescence.

Prof DJK Balfour: £1,460 from The Nuffield Foundation for the influence of bupropion on neurogenesis in the hippocampus (undergraduate research bursary: S Rushton).

Psychology

Prof RA Kennedy: £2,000 from The British Academy for 12th European conference on eye movements.

Dr E Nagy: £4,300 from The British Academy for the effect of parental alcohol consumption of infant-parent interaction.

Dr MH Fischer: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for investigating the link between perception and action (vacation scholarship: H D Liu).

Dr E Nagy: £14,265 from The Royal Society for psycho and neurophysiological study of brain language development in toddlers with and without autism.

Prof A Kennedy: £1,280 from The Royal Society for incoming study visit for Dr Fedor Jagla from Slovakia.

Dr MH Fischer: £760 from The Royal Society for a conference grant.

Dr C Scheepers: £660 from The Royal Society for a conference grant.

School of Life Sciences

Prof CJ Weijer: £583,245 from Wellcome Trust for the mechanism controlling chemotactic cell movement during dictyostelium development and migration of mesodern cells during gastrulation.

Prof JGW Williams: £1,122,112 from Wellcome Trust for an analysis of STAT signalling in dictyostelium and delineation of DIF signal transduction pathways.

Prof MAJ Ferguson & Prof GJ Barton: £1,664,187 from Wellcome Trust for trypanosome glycomics: definition of the glycoconjugate repertoire and associated biosynthetic machinery of the parasite and the design and synthesis of inhibitors (programme grant).

Dr T Tanaka: £1,600 from The Nuffield Foundation for the role of the lpll-Slil5 complex in chromosome bi-orientation (undergraduate research bursary: A Campbell).

Dr JCB Zomerdijk: £1,600 from delineating the interaction between a novel subunit of transcription factor SL1 and the activator UBF in RNA polymerase I transcription (undergraduate research bursary: M Chaudhry).

Mr J Dorling, Prof MJ Rennie & Prof DI Rowley (Orthopaedics): £33,515 from AO Research Fund for alterations in human bone collagen and asteoblast gene expression after femoral fractures: acute and longer term changes and the effect of growth hormone.

Dr JA Anderson: £21,010 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for clean synthesis of chiral epoxides by heterogeneous catalysts.

Dr IS Nathke: £124,314 from Cancer Research UK for the roe of the APC protein in cell migration and colon cancer (senior fellowship).

Prof DA Cantrell: £62,754 from Wellcome Trust for the function of the GTPase Rac-1 in pre-T cells (fellowship: Dr K Lightfoot).

Prof EB Lane: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for the effect of keratin suppression on epithelial stress resistance (vacation scholarship: Ms Rebecca Haines).

Prof MJR Stark: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for assessment of yeast mitotic kinesin-like protein as critical IpI1p substrates (vacation scholarship: Ms Fiona A Ross).

Prof CP Downes: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for expression and characterisation of a tumour suppressor protein (vacation scholarship: Ms Sarah H Ross).

Dr D Van Aalten: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for structural analysis of novel peptide-based chitinase inhibitors (vacation scholarship: Ms Anna-Helene-Katrin Riemen).

Prof AH Fairlamb: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for bioactivation of antimonial pro-drugs (vacation scholarship: N Greig).

Prof DMJ Lilley: £263,525 from Cancer Research UK for structure of nucleic acids and recognition by proteins.

Dr IS Nathke: £3,235 from Cancer Research UK for the adenomatous polyposis coli protein in cell cycle regulation (supplement).

Prof DMJ Lilley: £4,615 from Cancer Research UK for equipment Pool B, conversion of AB1394 DNA/RNA synthesiser to ACE chemistry.

Prof GM Gadd: £1,600 from Society for General Microbiology for effect of wolbachia on insect host-parasitoid interactions (vacation studentship - T Dingwall).

Dr K Skene: £1,000 from British Ecological Society for nutrient acquisition: a history of life on earth.

Prof GM Gadd: £1,750 from British Mycological Society for geomycology: carbonate dissolution and secondary mineral deposition on fungal hyphae (undergraduate student bursary - L McGregor).

Prof MJ Rennie: £1,800 from Nuffield Foundation for development of a new method to detect testosterone abuse by adults (undergraduate research bursary: A Davidson).

Dr N Morrice: £1,280 from The Royal Society for national science council visit to the UK (Professor S-H Chen).

Dr K Skene: £1,460 from The Nuffield Foundation for food web dynamics in a naturally contaminated ultramafic site: the impact of 10000 years of metal pollution at Meikle Kilmarnock (undergraduate research bursary: S Holroyd).

Prof HG Jones: £2,746 from The Royal Society for travel grant for Professor Bernardo Murillo-Amador's visit from Mexico.

Dr JA Anderson: £4,111 from The Royal Society for a study visit - Dr Mahlaba Debeila.

Dr AA Harper: £1,316 from The Nuffield Foundation for dynamics of intrinsic electrophysiological properties and integration of neuronal signalling in intracardiac ganglian neurones (undergraduate research bursary: L Wallace).

Dr ST Safrany: £156,512 from The Royal Society for roles of inositol diphosphates in signal transduction and disease states (research fellowship).

Prof Sir P Cohen: £128,190 from CEC Improving Human Research Potential and Socic-Economic Knowledge Base for modulation of signalling cascades for the treatment of cancer, diabetes and inflammation (FP5).

Prof MJ Rennie: £112,663 from World Anti-Doping Agency for proof of concept study of methods to detect endogenous and pharmaceutical androgen using two-dimensional isotope fingerprinting as an anti-doping test.

£390,155 from Wellcome Trust for Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD Programme (5 Studentships).

Prof C Watts: £CEC Improving Human Research Potential and Socio-Economic Knowledge Base for Descartes Prize 2002 (FP5).

Surgery & Molecular Oncology

Prof Sir DP Lane & Dr S Lain: £54,875 from Tenovus Tayside for screening for non-genotoxic activators of p53 tumour suppressor function.

Prof RJC Steel & Dr CG Fraser (Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £35,548 from Chief Scientist Office for the role of immunological faecal occult blood testing in the provision of an efficient and effective colorectal cancer population screening programme (joint with Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust, Fife NHS Trust and University of Edinburgh).

Dr BA Spruce: £59,548 from Breast Cancer Research Scotland Centre Dundee for towards an understanding of human breast cancer cell responsiveness to small molecule sigma antagonists through a molecular and cell biological analysis of the sigma-1 receptor.

Dr J Bourdon: £1,240 from Wellcome Trust for determination of scotin isoforms in response to cellular stresses in cancer cell lines (vacation scholarship: Richard J Wilson).

Dr KL Ball: £34,309 from Cancer Research UK for G1 checkpoint pathways: regulation of p21 during gamma irradiation and the development of human cancer (senior cancer research fellowship (extension)).

Prof Sir DP Lane & Dr S Lain: £42,720 from Medical Research Council for studying the inter-relationship between the p53 and Myc pathways (research studentship: Ms F Murray-Zmijewski).

Prof Sir DP Lane & Dr S Lain: £25,225 from Kitty Cameron Endowment Fund for comparison of the pathways involved in the degradation of the p53 tumour suppressor in normal & transforyea cells (studentship).

Surgical Neurology

Mr MS Eljamel: £20,000 from Barbara Stewart Scottish Laser Centre Trust for Cancer for photodynamic therapy.

Town & Regional Planning

Dr AA Jackson: £1,900 from Carnegie Trust for pilot study to evaluate the impact of strategic environmental assessment procedures on resource management in Scotland and New Zealand.

Industrial Awards

Applied Computing
Dr S Parkes: £79,706
Dr SM Parkes: £38,314
Dr N Hine & Prof JL Arnott: £188,000
Dr S Parkes: £33,993
Dr S Parkes: £40,000
Dr GPH Gregor: £2,800
Dr GPH Gregor: £2,900
Dr SM Parkes: £23,611
Dr GPH Gregor: £4,112.50
Dr GPH Gregor: £1,645

Architecture
Ms F Stevenson: £32,925

Centre for Dental Innovations
Dr C Longbottom & Prof NB Pitts (joint with University of Glasgow): £194,734

Civil Engineering
Dr MF Bransby: £3,525

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof BJ Lipworth: £141,322.62
Prof BJ Lipworth: £154,292.06
Prof BJ Lipworth: £48,275
Prof BJ Lipworth: £250,000
Prof P Davey: £11,248

Dental Health Services Research Unit
Prof NB Pitts, Dr NM Nuttall & Dr ZJ Nugent: £2,108

Economics
Prof M Chatterji: £1,500

Fine Art
Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £58,750
Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £500

Geography
Dr AR Black, Dr O Bragg, Dr RW Duck, Dr JS Rowan & Prof A Werritty (joint with University of Dublin, Staffordshire University and Industry): £35,403
Dr O Bragg: £5,000
Prof A Findlay: £32,704
Dr JS Rowan & Dr O Bragg: £7,459
Mr DS Houston: £35,948.70
Prof A Werritty: £4,000

History
Dr MC Ward: £2,042

Maternal & Child Health Sciences
Dr S Mukhopadyay: £85,835
Dr S Mukhopadyay: £2,960

Mechanical Engineering
Dr Q Zhao & Dr EW Abel: £159,978

Medicine
Dr M McLaren: £4,615
Prof AD Morris: £3,926
Prof AD Morris: £11,542

Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Prof JJ Lambert, Dr D Belelli & Dr JA Peters: £48,638
Prof MLJ Ashford & Dr CD Sutherland: £5,816
Dr CN Connolly: £60,860
Prof JJ Lambert, Dr D Belelli & Dr JA Peters: £56,396

School of Life Sciences
Prof Sir P Cohen & Prof CP Downes: £2,702,500
Prof Sir P Cohen & Prof CP Downes: £2,702,500
Prof Sir P Cohen & Prof CP Downes: £2,300,000
Prof Sir P Cohen & Prof CP Downes: £2,702,500
Prof Sir P Cohen & Prof CP Downes: £3,000,000
Prof A Lamond: £199,974
Prof Sir P Cohen & Prof CP Downes: £3,000,000
Prof HG Jones: £22,242
Prof GM Gadd: £4,610
Dr JR Swedlow: £1,396.25
Prof GA Codd: £6,289

Surgery & Molecular Oncology
Prof AM Thomson: £25,592
Prof AM Thomson: £13,850
Mr SM Shimi: £34,511
Dr BA Spruce: £50,000

Town & Regional Planning
Dr WM Edgar: £37,964


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