Research Grants

Grants and contracts awarded 10 November 2005 - 09 January 2006.

Details provided below may vary as a number of awards are subject to confidentiality restrictions imposed by the awarding body.

Accountancy

Dr T Dunne, Dr SGM Fifield, Mrs AM Fox, Dr G Hannah, Prof CV Helliar & Prof DM Power: £16,750 from Scottish Accountancy Trust for Education and Research for introduction of international financial reporting standards.

Applied Computing

Prof JL Arnott & Dr N Hine: £1,274,324 from Scottish Funding Council for mobilising advanced technologies for care at home (MATCH) (joint with Universities of Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh) (Strategic research development grant - SRDG).

Dr SM Parkes: £302,860 from Natural Environment Research Council for NERC Satellite Receiving Station (2005/2006).

Dr GPH Gregor & Mr D Sloan: £8,750.

Dr SM Parkes: £16,337.

Dr SM Parkes: £200,000.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr LA Allan: £1,060 from The Royal Society for Mitotic phosphorylation of caspase-9 by CDK1-Cyclin B inhibits apoptosis induced by nocodazole (Conference grant).

Prof JD Hayes: £156,066 from Association for International Cancer Research for study of control of antioxidant genes by the NRF-1 transcription factor and regulation of its activity by cancer chemopreventive agents.

Dr D Meek: £42,196 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of p53 induction through multisite phosphorylation of the acidic domain of Mdm2.

Dr G Smith & Prof CR Wolf: £29,628.

Centre for Enterprise Management

Prof J Bower: £28,260.

Civil Engineering

Prof MCR Davies: £20,000.

Community Health Sciences Division

Prof T Fahey, Prof TM MacDonald (Medicine and Therapeutics) & Dr L Wei (Medicine and Therapeutics): £10,276 from Medical Research Council for epidemiology of drug compliance, safety monitoring and outcome of cardiovascular drugs prescribed in primary care (Special Training Fellowship in HSR) (supplement).

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Dr J Clarkson, Prof NB Pitts, Prof DI Rowley (Surgery & Oncology) & Prof FM Sullivan (Community Health Sciences Division): £1,199,579 from Scottish Funding Council for Scottish Collaboration of Trialists (SCoT) (joint with Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh) (Strategic research development grant - SRDG).

Education

Prof EL Leo: £25,000.

Electronic Engineering and Physics

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £2,000.

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £95.

Prof WA Gillespie: £95,358.

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences: £2,698 from Medical Research Council for doctoral training grant 2005.

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing

Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing: £159,197 from Medical Research Council for doctoral training grant 2005.

Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing: £7,500 from Wellcome Trust for open access publishing costs under value in People Award Scheme.

Fine Art

Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £5,000.

Ms E Shemilt: £5,000.

Geography

Dr AR Black, Dr DS Houston & Prof A Werritty: £68,205 from Scottish Executive for exploring the social impacts of flood risk and flooding in Scotland.

Dr MEJ Cutler: £10,773 from Natural Environment Research Council for remote sensing, image processing and applications (MSc Studentship: Ms EVS Blackburn Shaw).

Dr MEJ Cutler: £10,773 from Natural Environment Research Council for remote sensing, image processing and applications (MSc Studentship: Miss LA Foster).

Dr MEJ Cutler: £10,773 from Natural Environment Research Council for remote sensing, image processing and applications (MSc Studentship: Mr JM White).

Dr MEJ Cutler: £10,773 from Natural Environment Research Council for remote sensing, image processing and applications (MSc Studentship: Mr CR Wilson).

History

Dr CD Storrs: £1,680 from Carnegie Trust for the revival of Spain as a Mediterranean (and especially Italian) power, 1707-48.

International Water Law Research Institute

Mr A Allan: £11,000.

Law

Dr T Obokata: £700 from The British Academy for the impact of global issues on women and children.

Maternal and Child Health Sciences

Prof A Burchell & Prof R Hume: £97,834 from Scottish Cot Death Trust for study of causes of disordered hepatic glucose metabolism in cases of sudden infant death syndrome.

Dr DKM Koh & Dr FLR Williams: £14,865 from Chief Scientist Office for study of metabolic and hormonal responses to hypoglycaemia in infants born by elective Caesarean section.

Dr G Mires: £31, 610.

Dr S Mukhopadhyay & Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre): £900.

Mathematics

Prof MAJ Chaplain: £9,435 from National Institutes of Health (USA) for study of the development of virtual tumour (joint with Massachusetts General Hospital).

Medicine and Therapeutics

Mr DIR Boyle, Dr GP Leese & Prof AD Morris: £50,416 from EU Public Health Programme for Best Information Through Regional Outcomes (BIRO).

Dr SH Ibbotson & Dr G Smith (Biomedical Research Centre): £170,353 from Chief Scientist Officer for mechanisms regulating individuality in cytochrome P450 CYP2S1 expression in human skin.

Prof McMurdo & Dr MD Witham: £17,685 from Chief Scientist Office for validation of the patient generated index in older, frail patients attending a medicine for the elderly day hospital.

Prof AS Anderson, Prof JJF Belch, Prof A Ferguson, Dr A Hill, Dr SH Ibbotson, Dr G Kennedy, Dr F Khan & Dr D Patterson: £91,549.

Dr J Coleman & Dr JR Petrie: £5,200.

Prof CC Lang: £10,520.

Prof TM MacDonald: £12,145.68.

Pathology and Neuroscience

Dr D Belelli, Prof JJ Lambert & Dr CJ Weir: £100,000 from Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland for study of GABA receptors containing the Subunit: An important target for general anaesthetics.

Dr SG Hormuzdi: £10,000 from University of Dundee Clinical Pharmacology Fund for functional studies on neuronal chloride transporter.

Dr G Rena: £10,000 from University of Dundee Clinical Pharmacology Fund for study of mechanism of action of a specific inhibitor of Foxo Transcription Factor Nuclear Exlusion.

Philosophy

Dr B Lord & Dr JR Williams: £1,150 from The Royal Institute of Philosophy for a lecture and seminar research series on philosophy and nature.

School of Life Sciences

Prof SM Black: £49,589 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for statistically rigorous age progression for the identification of missing persons (joint with University of Kent).

Prof JJ Blow: £298,442 from Cancer Research UK for analysis of proteins required for the initiation of chromosome replication (Programme grant).

Prof JJ Blow & Dr T Tanaka: £23,217 from Cancer Research UK for study of the role and organisation of replication foci in chromosome duplication.

Dr A Gartner: £81,030 from Association for International Cancer Research for combined biochemical and genetic approach to elucidate Sir-2 histone deacetylase function in C. elegans DNA damage induced apoptosis.

Prof IH Gilbert: £80,100 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Industrial Partner for investigation of deoxyuridine triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase (CASE Studentship: Ms SE Hampton).

Dr IS Nathke: £103,774 from Cancer Research UK for investigation to find if decreased stability in cells with mutated APC correlate with increased sensitivity to microtubule poisons and if this can be exploited for cancer therapy (joint with The Beatson Institute of Cancer Research and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust).

Dr JW Rouse: £122,123 from Association for International Cancer Research for study of regulation of the DNA damage-induced interaction of 53BP1-hPTIP and consequences for responses to double strand breaks.

Prof P Schaap: £257,500.75 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for study of the evolution of morphological complexity in the Dictyostelids.

Dr T Tanaka: £166,725 from Association for International Cancer Research for study of the roles of microtubule plus-end tracking proteins in kinetochore-microtubule interactions.

Dr FM Boisvert: £74,417.

Dr M Scott: £74,417.

Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences: £107,930 from Medical Research Council for doctoral training grant 2005.

Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences: £22,500 from Wellcome Trust for open access publishing costs under value in People Award Scheme.

Surgery and Oncology

Dr A Iqbal: £4,626 from The Row Fogo Charitable Trust for comparative evaluation of vibrational power doppler and static elastography.