Research Grants

Grants and contracts awarded 8 March 2006 - 02 May 2006.

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

Applied Computing

Dr GPH Gregor, Dr CJ MacAuley, Professor IW Ricketts & Dr JR Swedlow (School of Life Sciences): £276,018 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for the design of usable access to a large open microscopy environment.

Dr N Hine: £24,684 from The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for AT commands for assistive mobile device interfaces.

Dr GPH Gregor: £790.

Dr N Hine, Professor JL Arnott & Mr A Judson: £206,377.

Dr SM Parkes & Mr I Martin: £27,354.

Dr CA Reed: £67,704.

Architecture

Ms F Stevenson: £40,000.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr D Meek: £40,410 from Cancer Research UK for suppression of the p53 response through phosphorylation of Mdm2 by Pim kinases in B cells and lymphomas.

Dr M Paine: £7,110 from EU Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health Programme for environmental cancer risk, nutrition and individual susceptibility (ECNIS) "Mechanism and Action of beetroot in cancer chemoprevention" (FP6).

Professor E Rankin, Professor CR Wolf & Professor GR Ogden (Dental School): £75,000.

Professor E Rankin: £12,981.

Centre for Clinical Innovations

Dr C Longbottom & Professor NB Pitts (joint with University of Glasgow): £17,535.

Professor NB Pitts: £2,865.

Professor NB Pitts: £11,076.

Professor NB Pitts: £345,711.

Professor NB Pitts & Dr C Longbottom: £150,190.

Civil Engineering

Professor RK Dhir & Dr MR Jones: £46,000 from Scottish Enterprise Tayside for globalisation initiative for concrete research.

Professor RK Dhir & Dr MR Jones: £75,000 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, British Cement Association and Castle Cement for Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award Scheme for innovative composite cements for concrete construction.

Professor RK Dhir & Dr MD Newlands: £20,000 from Castle Cement for effect of new generations of concrete on plastic shrinkage.

Professor RK Dhir & Dr KA Paine: £130,000 from Waste and Resources Action Programme and Industry for development of a performance based approach to the use of recycled aggregates in concrete.

Dr P Dong, Dr A Cuthbertson & Professor PA Davies: £329,550 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for sand-mud morphodynamics under combined tidal and wave actions.

Dr AI Elsheikh: £24,524 from The Royal Academy of Engineering for corneal biomechanics and their effect on intra-ocular pressure management (Global Research Award).

Dr MR Jones: £3,273.55 from Scott Wilson Mining Consultants for investigating concrete works at Coombe Down Quarry/Mine in Bath.

Dr MR Jones: £39,000 from Nexia Solutions for development of foamed concrete grout for British Nuclear Fuel Limited.

Dr MR Jones & Professor RK Dhir: £118,400 from Waste and Resources Action Programme for increasing the use of foamed concrete incorporating recycled and secondary aggregates.

Dr AI Elsheikh: £29,442.

Community Health Sciences Division

Professor FM Sullivan: £17,579.60.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Dr J Clarkson: £17,400 from NHS Education for Scotland for research into dental primary care and collaboration with organisations to contribute towards delivering Scotland-wide research - carried out by Stephen Turner.

Dr J Clarkson: £28,951 from NHS Education for Scotland for Scottish Dental Practice based research network administration and coordination - to be undertaken by Diane Lynas.

Professor NB Pitts, Dr J Clarkson & Dr D Richards: £60,000.

Economic Studies

Dr P Allanson: £550 from the Carnegie Trust for the welfare effects of agricultural income support in Italy.

Dr C Morelli: £1,440 from the Carnegie Trust for the jute industry in the era of decline: government and industry policy since 1945.

Electronic Engineering and Physics

Professor AG Fitzgerald & Dr G Harris: £250.

Professor WA Gillespie: £46,115.

Dr L Hayes: £73,907.

Fine Art

Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £19,595.

Geography

Dr EC Hall: £800 from The British Academy towards healthier environments: regional responses to global change.

Dr N Wood: £500 from The British Academy for Emotional Geographies 2nd international and interdisciplinary conference.

Dr AR Black: £4,966.

Dr O Bragg: £2,250.

Law

Professor A Belcher: £32,176 from Arts and Humanities Research Council for behavioural aspects of the development of corporate norms, laws and governance codes, their content and compliance procedures (Research Leave application).

Dr T Obokata: £1,200 from Japan Foundation Endowment Committee for national response to trafficking of human beings in Japan.

Ms EA Kirk (joint with the MacAuley Institute): £13,827.40.

Maternal and Child Health Sciences

Professor R Hume, Dr DKM Koh & Dr FLR Williams (Community Health Sciences Division): £7,000 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for metabolic and hormonal responses to hypoglycaemia in infants born by elective caesarean section.

Professor R Hume & Dr FLR Williams (Community Health Sciences Division): £7,000 from NHS Tayside for levels of neonatal thyroid hormones in preterm infants and neurodevelopment outcome at 5.5 years.

Dr A Mehta, Dr SC Land & Dr KJ Treharne: £9,420 from Tenovus Tayside for a direct molecular link between the delta-F508 mutation in CFTR and inflammation.

Dr R Uma: £9,926 from Tenovus Tayside for studies of the relationship between Angiotensin converting enzyme activity and its genotype in high risk pregnancies.

Dr B Galarraga, Professor JJF Belch, Dr G Kennedy, Dr F Khan & Dr T Pullar: £65,000.

Medicine and Therapeutics

Professor AS Anderson, Professor JJF Belch, Professor AD Struthers, Dr JG Houston (Surgery and Oncology), Dr A Kirk (Institute of Sport and Exercise) & Dr B Williams (Community Health Sciences Division): £172,809 from Medical Research Council for Healthforce - Development and feasibility of a peer-led, bodyweight and lifestyle management programme (joint with University of Aberdeen).

Professor JJF Belch, Professor AS Anderson, Professor AD Struthers, Professor H Tunstall-Pedoe & Dr CAN Plmer (Biomedical Research Centre): £75,000 from Tayside Institute of Cardiovascular Research for TICR Infrastructure Grant.

Mrs G Libby & Professor DJ Murphy (Maternal and Child Health Sciences): £3,544 from Tenovus Tayside for the descriptive epidemiology of drug prescribing to pregnant women in Tayside.

Dr E Pearson, Professor A Burchell (Maternal and Child Health Sciences) & Dr CD Sutherland (Pathology and Neuroscience): £83,926 from Tenovus Tayside for new insights into insulin resistance: the role of the HNF transcription factors.

Dr M Barnes & Professor BJ Lipworth: £130,000.

Dr GP Leese & Professor AD Morris: £582.

Dr GP Leese & Professor AD Morris: £4,207.50.

Professor TM MacDonald: £105, 624.

Professor AD Morris: £3,700.

Professor AD Morris: £77,902.

Nursing and Midwifery

Dr MC Jones (joint with University of Aberdeen, Aston University and Bromorgannwg NHS Trust): £303,939.

Professor W Lauder, Mr J Foulis & Professor KJ Topping (Education): £190,047 from NHS Education for Scotland for an evaluation of pre-registration fitness for practice programmes and the development of a data platform for future evaluation (joint with Universities of Salford and Sheffield, NHS Trust Fife & Tayside).

Mrs M Roxburgh, Professor W Lauder, Ms M Rush & Professor J Harris (Social Work): £10,600 from East of Scotland Primary Care Research Network (EASTREN) for the meaning of self neglect: understanding the perspective of people who self-neglect.

Dr M Themessl-Huber: £18,500.

Pathology and Neuroscience

Dr FV Fuller-Pace: £167,454 from the Association for International Cancer Research for functional/mechanistic analysis and role in tumour development of the DEAD box protein p68, a novel transcriptional co-activator of the p53 tumour suppressor.

Dr SG Hormuzdi: £15,000 from The Royal Society for studies on KCC2 function and regulation.

Dr SG Hormuzdi: £47,625 from Tenovus Tayside for the establishment of a model in order to study mechanisms by which gap junction proteins cause epilepsy.

Dr SG Hormuzdi, Dr CN Connolly & Dr J Harvey: £307,108 from the Wellcome Trust for investigations into the specification of electrical synapses.

Dr KE Robertson, Dr JR Goodlad, Dr NM Kernohan, Professor DA Levison, Dr N Pratt, Professor PR Clarke (Biomedical Research Centre) & Dr M Sales (NHS Tayside): £93,191.26 from Tenovus Tayside for subtypes of follicular lymphoma and their relationship to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: an array comparative genomic hybridisation study.

Dr CD Sutherland & Dr DJR Cuthbertson (Medicine and Therapeutics): £9,200 from Tenovus Tayside for validation and characterisation of a novel cell model for the study of human obesity-induced disease.

Professor MJ Pippard: £15,238.

Petroleum and Mineral Law

Dr CP Andrews-Speed: £40,970 from Research Councils' Procurement Organisation for study on the security of international oil and gas.

Philosophy

Dr JR Williams: £1,104 from The British Academy for Gilles Deleuze and Charles Peguy on the philosophy of history and literature.

Psychology

Dr MH Fischer: £400 from The British Academy for Vision Sciences Society 6th annual meeting (conference grant).

Dr N Hopkins: £600 from The British Academy for Contact 50 - Contact and Inter-group relations (overseas conference grant).

Professor A Kennedy, Dr MH Fischer & Dr WS Murray: £372,013.10 from the Economic and Social Research Council for ESRP05: Sources of linguistic control over eye movements (joint with University of Edinburgh).

Professor A Kennedy & Dr B Tatler: £34,901 from The Leverhulme Trust for eye movement control and information extraction while watching moving images.

Research and Innovation Services

Mr J Houston: £2,000.

Mr J Houston: £2,000.

Mr J Houston: £2,000.

Mr J Houston: £2,000.

Mr J Houston: £2,000.

Mr J Houston: £20,000.

School of Life Sciences

Professor JJ Blow & Dr JR Swedlow: £156,013 from Cancer Research UK for functional proteomics of genomic integrity (programme grant).Professor IH Gilbert: £36,142 from EU Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health Programme for design and synthesis of potential anti-malarials (ANTIMAL).

Dr C Halpin: £135,545 from The Leverhulme Trust towards gene targeting in higher plants.

Professor R Hay: £297,840 from EU Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health Programme for the role of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers in cellular regulation (RUBICON) (joint with Karolinska Institute and others).

Professor A Lamond: £2,000 from the British Council in Austria for academic research collaboration programme December 2005 - visits by Johannes Grillari.

Professor JI Sprent: £1,200 from The Royal Society for the third international conference of legume genomica and genetics (conference grant).

Dr T Tanaka: £257,285 from Cancer Research UK for molecular mechanisms of kinetochore-microtubule interaction (senior fellowship).

Professor JGW Williams: £161,469 from the Wellcome Trust for functional analysis of a novel family of transcriptional activators specific to the amoebozoan organisms D. discoideum and E. histolytica.

Social Work

Dr BA Gillies, Professor J Harris & Dr D May: £24,200.

Surgery and Oncology

Dr J Bourdon: £20,000 from Cancer Research UK for the p53-inducible pro-apoptopic gene, Scotin is abnormally expressed in breast tumours (pilot project grant).

DR J Vaidya, Professor AJ Munro, Dr ARA Anderson (Mathematics) & Professor MAJ Chaplain (Mathematics): £20,000 from Cancer Research UK for a mathematical model for the effects of different radiotherapy strategies for breast cancer.

Mr MA Thaha: £65,910.

Professor AM Thompson, Dr MVC Appleyard & Dr F Paulin: £39,059.

Town and Regional Planning

Dr AA Jackson: £2,000 from the Carnegie Trust for international comparative lessons for Scotland in the use of strategic environmental assessment.

Ms DM Peel & Professor MG Lloyd: £2,300 from the Scottish Executive for scoping study of the potential for medication in land use planning.

Dr WM Edgar: £45,070.

Professor MG Lloyd: £180,000.