Research Grants

Anaesthesia
Prof JAW Wildsmith, Dr CJ Weir and Prof JJ Lambert (Pharm. & Neuroscience): £40,627 from Royal College of Anaesthetists for the characterisation of general anaesthetic binding site(s) on human GABA A receptors.

Applied Computing
Prof AF Newell: £46,086 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for doctoral training grant.

Biomedical Research Centre
Dr B McStay: £42,315 from Medical Research Council for determining the in vivo distribution of RNA polymerase I transcription factors on the human rDNA repeat (Studentship: Miss J E Wright).

Child Health
Dr A Jovanovic: £7,000 from Tenovus Tayside for ATP-senstive K+ channels in pulmonary vascular endothelium.
Dr SC Land: £15,464 from Medical Research Council for role of oxygen-linked stress in determining fate and function of fetal distal lung epithelium (Career Establishment Award - supplement).
Dr SM Wilson, Prof RE Olver & Dr SK Inglis: £83,983 from Wellcome Trust for pharmacological properties of P2Y receptors in airway epithelia (Studentship: Miss Lucy Chambers).
Prof RE Olver: £59,555 from The George John Livanos Charitable Trust for a new strategy for preventing lung disease in cystic fibrosis (George John Livanos Prize Studentship: Ms Marie O'Shea).

Civil Engineering
Dr MF Bransby: £63,231 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for composite foundation systems subject to horizontal loads.
Prof RMW Horner: £69,603 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for doctoral training grant.

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof AD Struthers; Dr BM Goudie & Prof FM Sullivan (General Practice); & Dr S Pringle (Medicine): £108,206 from British Heart Foundation for improving the diagnosis of heart failure in General Practice.

Electronic Engineering and Physics
Prof AG Fitzgerald: £43,903 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for doctoral training grant.

General Practice
Mr C McCowan, Mrs G Hoskins; Dr F Drimmie & Dr S Mukhopadhyay (Child Health): £195,354 from Clinical Resource and Audit Group for 'Asthma Attack' targeting emergency asthma contacts in children (joint with University of Glasgow).

Geography
Dr RJ Das: £41,259 from Economic and Social Research Council for social capital and working class poverty in Orissa, India.

Gynaecology & Obstetrics
Prof A Burchell: £8,000 from Tenovus Tayside for regulation of glucose supply during development.

Mathematics
Prof PD Smith: £350,610 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for development of Tools for the Design of Reliable Non-Linear Communication Circuitry (joint with University College London).

Mechanical Engineering
Dr EW Abel: £20,311 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for doctoral training grant.

Medicine
Dr AD Morris: £35,000 from Cardiology Research Endowment Fund for Cardiology Integrated Databases.

Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Dr WHI McLean: £56,260 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Res Ass for proof-of-principle experiments towards gene therapy for epidermolysis bullosa simplex.
Dr MWH Coughtrie, Mrs S Sharp and Mr AM Thompson (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £7,900 from Tenovus Tayside for molecular genetic analysis of the relationship between x-chromosome inactivation, steroid sulfatase expression and susceptibility to breast cancer.
Dr TR Hupp: £163,365 from Cancer Research Campaign for signal transduction pathways regulating the tumour suppressor p53.
Prof JH Cummings & Dr EAM Magee: £24,448 from Food Standards Agency for intakes of sulphur-containing additives and their stability in food during storage (extension).

Orthopaedics
Prof DI Rowley: £34,227 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for doctoral training grant.

Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Prof MLJ Ashford, Dr BG Frenguelli, Dr J Harvey, Dr AJ Irving & Prof JJ Lambert: £196,352 from Wellcome Trust for establishment of research laboratories for the study of endocrine hormone regulation of CNS function (refurbishment grant).
Dr AJ Irving & Dr BG Frenguelli: £99,418 from Scottish Hospital Endowments Research Trust for linking hypoxia/ischemia with altered glutamate receptor expression and dynamic changes in the neuronal cytosketon.
Dr J Harvey: £5,164 from Tenovus Tayside for leptin modulation of hippocampal epileptiform activity.
Dr D Belelli: £6,000 from Tenovus Tayside for the role of endogenous and synthetic neuroactive steroids in GABAa-mediated spinal analgesia.
Dr AJ Irving: £5,953 from Tenovus Tayside for altered glutamate receptor expression during hypoxia/ischaemia and dynamic changes in the neuronal cytoskeleton.
Dr AJ Irving: £8,744 from British Council for research into pharmacology (British Chevening Scholarship: Murat Durakoglugil).
Dr BG Frenguelli: £42,315 from Medical Research Council for mechanisms underlying the release and role of adenosine during seizure activity (Research Studentship: Miss Lori-An V Darling).
Dr D Belelli: £42,315 from Medical Research Council for neurosteroids and analgesia (Research Studentship: Miss Elizabeth A Mitchell).
Prof MLJ Ashford: £38,925 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for characterisation of signalling pathways responsible for oxidative stress-induced cation channel activation (Research Studentship: Miss Charlotte Milne).

Secretary's Office
Dr JRD Blicharski: £14,500 from the Sutton Trust for emerging from exclusion through Education to Employment.

School of Life Sciences
Dr JJ Blow: £104,002 from Cancer Research Campaign for proteomic identification of novel cell cycle regulated chromatin and chromosome-associated proteins.
Dr JJ Blow: £10,500 from Cancer Research Campaign for Dundee CRC Co-operative Centre.
Dr JJ Blow: £233,986 from Cancer Research Campaign for analysis of proteins required for the initiation of chromosome replication.
Dr CJ MacLeod: £15,200 from The Royal Society for relating bird declines to agricultural intensification comparing yellow hammer breeding ecology in Scotland and New Zealand.
Dr WN Hunter: £138,510 from Wellcome Trust for a study of macromolecule crystallography (Senior Research Fellowship - supplement).
Dr AJ Flavell: £168,312 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for analysis of Geneflow from crop to wild forms in lettuce and chicory and its population-ecological consequences in the context of GM-crop biosafety. (ANGEL).
Prof DG Hardie: £224,896 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for the cellular fuel gauge AMP-activated protein kinase: a key player in Type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome? (AMPDIAMET).
Dr E Smythe: £61,155 from British Heart Foundation for regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis by phosphorylation (Studentship: Mr B Shortt).
Dr S Mueller: £90,133 from Wellcome Trust for the thioredoxin system of Toxoplasma gondii - its role in antioxidative defence (Prize Studentship: S E Akerman).
Prof CP Downes: £6,436 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for doctoral training grant.
Prof DMJ Lilley: £38,925 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for the investigation of ribozyme structure and folding (Research Studentship: Miss CJ Sinnamon).

Surgery & Molecular Oncology
Ms A Leslie, Prof RJC Steele & Dr FA Carey (Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £6,950 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for nature and significance of the generic mutational profile of screen-detected colorectal neoplasia. Prof Sir DP Lane: £23,237 from Cancer Research Campaign for discovering novel non-genotoxic activators of the p53 response (Studentship: Ms Rachel Berkson).

INDUSTRIAL AWARDS
Child Health
Dr A Mehta: £30,372

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof BJ Lipworth: £127,316

General Practice
Mr C McCowan & Mrs G Hoskins: £117,206

Law
Dr PK Wouters: £67,955

Mathematics
Prof PD Smith: £5,000

Orthopaedics
Prof DI Rowley & Mr GR Hogg: £28,200

Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Prof MLJ Ashford, Dr BG Frenguelli, Dr J Harvey, Dr AJ Irving & Prof JJ Lambert: £75,000
Prof JJ Lambert, Dr D Belelli & Dr JA Peters: 58,888

Psychology
Dr MH Fischer: £9,541

School of Life Sciences
Prof GM Gadd: £9,400

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