Research Grants
Accountancy
Dr B Burton, Dr CV Helliar & Prof DM Power: £6,600 from Certified Accountants Educational Trust for a behavioural finance perspective on IPOs and SEOs.
Anaesthesia
Dr CJ Weir, Prof JAW Wildsmith & Prof JJ Lambert (Pharmacology & Neuroscience): £70,000 from Scottish Hospital Endowments Research Trust for the characterisation of general anaesthetic binding site(s) on human GABAa receptors.
Applied Computing
Dr N Hine: £2,372 from CEC Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for IST Evaluation of proposals 6th Call 5FP.
Biomedical Research Centre
Dr LI McLellan: £1,160 from Wellcome Trust for regulation of glutathione synthetase activity in drosphila (Vacation Scholarship: Ms Moira McAlorum).
Prof JD Hayes, Dr C NA Palmer, Prof CR Wolf, Dr C Elcombe; Prof B Burchell & Dr MWH Coughtrie (Molecular and Cellular Pathology); Dr SH Ibbotson (Dermatology); Dr AD Morris (Medicine) & Prof IC Reid (Psychiatry): £162,416 from Medical Research Council for the Dundee Molecular Pharmacology Co-operative Group (extension).
Child Health
Dr S Greene & Dr V Franklin: £92,925 from Diabetes UK for constructing a social support network to improve concordance with intensive insulin therapy in the young with diabetes (Research Fellowship: Dr V Franklin).
Dr A Mehta: £130,234 from Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust for UK CF Database Project Grant 2001-2003.
Dr SK Inglis: £161,013 from Wellcome Trust for pH regulatory mechanisms in surface and glandular cells in airway epithelia.
Civil Engineering
Dr TA Newson & Dr AI Elsheikh: £9,612 from The Royal Society for modelling corneal biomechanics.
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof P Davey, Mrs G Libby, Prof TM MacDonald, Dr G Phillips (Molecular & Cellular Pathology); Dr PT Donnan & Prof FM Sullivan (General Practice): £32,981 from Chief Scientist Office for primary care prescribing and antibiotic resistance: what is the added value of person specific data about antibiotic prescribing compared with existing, practice level information? (joint with Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, Glasgow and Information and Statistics Division, Edinburgh).
Dental School
Dr AH Forgie, Dr SN Scrimgeour & Dr JA Chudek (School of Life Sciences): £12,641 from Chief Scientist Office for three-dimensional quantification of tooth substance loss associated with restoration removal using Magnetic Resonance Micro-imaging.
Dr PM McGoldrick & Dr J Bannister (Anaesthesia): £ 9,196 from Chief Scientist Office for a systematic (Cochrane) review of conscious sedation for dental anxiety.
Dr PM McGoldrick & Dr RC Durham (Psychiatry): £9,196 from Chief Scientist Office for a systematic (Cochrane) review of psychotherapy-based treatments for dental anxiety.
Prof S Schor: £582,725 from National Institute of Health (USA) for new therapies for diabetic foot disease (joint with Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research).
Prof NB Pitts & Prof P Davey (Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics): £56,420 from Medical Research Council for impact of remuneration on primary care clinician’s behaviour, with particular reference to dentistry (MRC HSRC PhD Studentship: George Bouliotis).
Dr C Pine: £89,093 from Lothian Health for evaluation of National Pre-School Pilot Project.
Dermatology
Prof J Ferguson & Dr H Moseley; Prof JJF Belch (Medicine): £6,225 from Tenovus Tayside for a single-blind within subject randomised control study to compare high output UVA1 (340-400nm) with visible irradiation (control) in the mangement of systemic sclerosis.
Design
Prof T Inns & Prof WA Nixon (Accountancy): £40,000 from Design Council for a tool for communicating the financial impact of design investment.
Economics
Dr MK Jones: £9,430 from Economic and Social Research Council for economic learning through hypothesis testing and analogy.
Prof H Molana: £4,195 from The British Academy for empirical relationship between international openness and provision of social protection: Time series evidence from OECD countries.
Electronic Eng and Physics
Prof AG Fitzgerald & Dr S Parkes (Applied Computing): £233,850 from NERC for NERC Satellite Receiving Station (2001/2002).
Fine Art
Prof CM Colvin: £14,015 from The Leverhulme Trust for fragments of ancient poetry (Research Fellowship).
Mr GR Fagen: £5,000 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for plants as cultural formers.
Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £5,000 from Artlink for commission – The Chaplaincy/Sanctuary.
General Practice
Mrs G Hoskins, Mr C McCowan & Dr I McDougall: £11,245 from Westgate Health Centre for International Asthma Quality of Care initiative (IAQOC).
Dr HC Pagliari & Prof FM Sullivan: £42,964 from Chief Scientist Office for evaluation of cardiovascular risk prediction tools in primary care (Postgraduate Studentship in Health Services Research).
Mr C McCowan & Mrs G Hoskins: £31,438 from Clinical Resource and Audit Group for Scottish Asthma Management Initiative (SAMI)(extension).
Geography
Prof A Findlay: £825,000 from Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for the Scottish Centre for Longitudinal Population Studies (joint with University of St Andrews) (Research Development Grant).
Prof A Findlay: £9,152 from International Labour Office for review of emigration impacts on developing countries.
Dr O Bragg: £950 from English Nature for Hydrological Integrity, Bolton Fell Moss.
History
Dr JM Cornwall: £1,000 from Carnegie Trust for youth and nationalism in the Czech lands: the case of Heinrich Rutha.
Dr EA Foyster: £2,170 from Learning and Teaching Support Network for evaluating the learning and teaching of history study skills among 1st Year Undergraduate Students.
History and Fine Art
Prof M Macdonald: £11,519 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for Interdisciplinary Internationalism: traditional revival and generalism in the circle of Patrick Geddes.
Law
Dr KV Last: £8,284 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for The Preservation of Heritage.
Mathematics
Dr DF Griffiths: £50,147 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for analysis of numerical methods for incompressible fluid dynamics (joint with UMIST).
Dr FA Davidson: £60,709 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for Michaelis-Mentin type kinetics for non-isolated enzyme-catalysed reactions.
Mechanical Engineering
Dr Q Zhao: £63,302 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for novel non-leaching antimicrobial silver PTFE surfactant coatings for preventing catheter-related infections.
Mr AP Slade: £3,290 from Norman Fraser Design Trust for Boccia Game, Wheelchair Assistive Device.
Medicine
Prof MET McMurdo & Prof AD Struthers (Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics) £186,479 from PPP Healthcare Medical Trust for a pragmatic randomised trial of exercise training in older people with heart failure (joint with University of St Andrews).
Dr JB Baharani, Dr M Andrews & Prof JJF Belch: £3,900 from The Renal Care and Research Association for relationship of oxidative stress and vascular compliance with peritoneal transport status. An early indicator of vascular disease.
Dr GP Leese & Dr PS Baines (Ophthalmology): £15,289 from W.H.Ross Foundation (Scotland) by project validation of retinal photography in diabetic eye disease.
Dr F Khan: £4,110 from Pain Research Trust for complex regional pain syndrome type I: a pilot study of endothelial behaviour and related pain producing mechanisms.
Prof JJF Belch & Dr M McLaren: £10,000 from Sir John Fisher Foundation for fellowship for lecturer’s post.
Dr SR McEwan & Prof JJF Blech: £20,567 from Scottish Heart and Arterial disease Risk Prevention for ten-year follow-up study for the SHARP cardiovascular population study relating to morbidity and mortality data.
Prof JJF Belch: £632,759 from The Raynaud’s and Scleroderma Ass. For cardiovascular events and mortality in systemic sclerosis: A study of the effect of Iloprost on these and disease progression (joint with Royal Infirmaries, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen and Leeds General).
Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Prof JH Cummings, Prof G Macfarlane & Dr EAM Magee: £69,971 from National Association for Colitis & Crohn’s Disease for the toxicity of reduced sulphur compounds in the human large intestine: A novel approach to management of ulcerative colitis by dietary intervention.
Dr DH Edwards: £201,535 from Wellcome Trust for the identification and characterisation of DivIVA interacting proteins from Bacillus subtilis Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Dr D Bowen: £28,280 from Tayside Leukaemia and Haematology Endowment Fund for Clinical Research Data Manager.
Prof S Flemming: £53,490 from National Kidney Research Fund for disease modifying loci and malignant hypertension (joint with University of Edinburgh).
Dr D Bowen: £2,450 from Tayside Leukaemia and Haematology Endowment Fund for Ras mutational screening for DNA samples from patients entered into the MRC AML 10/12 study.
Prof G Macfarlane: £40,000 from Medical Research Council for microbiology of the gastrointestinal tract (supplement).
Dr MWH Coughtrie & Mrs S Sharp; Mr AM Thompson (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £3,990 from Tayside Oncology Research Fund for molecular analysis of x-chromosome inactivation and steroid sulfatase expression in breast cancer.
Dr WHI McLean & Prof B Burchell: £92,729 from Wellcome Trust for tissue specific interactions of hair follicle-specific keratins (Prize Studentship: Mr K J Hamill).
Nursing & Midwifery
Dr MC Jones: £15,000 from Chief Scientist Office for a pilot study to evaluate the impact of a needs-led exercise programme for two groups of clients with learning disabilities (joint with Fife Primary Care NHS Trust).
Ophthalmology
Dr CJ MacEwen & Miss KH Weed: £72,092 from Speed Pollock Memorial Research Trust for the impact of contact lens wear on corneal endothelial cell density and morphology.
Otolaryngology
Miss M-L Montague, Mr RL Blair & Dr EW Abel (Mechanical Engineering): £6,400 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for a study of the effectiveness of external splints following nasal surgery.
Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Dr CN Connolly: £9,600 from Tenovus Tayside for the role of glutamate excitotoxicity in Motor Neurone Disease.
Dr CN Connolly: £6,834 from Wellcome Trust for analysis of recombinant GABAa receptor targeting to pre- and post-synaptic sites in hippocampal neurons: mechanisms responsible for the generation of synaptic specificity (supplement).
Philosophy
Dr TDJ Chappell: £11,946 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for the Theaetetus and the Theory of Thought (Research Leave Scheme).
Politics
Prof A Black: £2,145 from The Nuffield Foundation for The Comparative History of Political Thought.
Psychiatry
Prof DJK Balfour & Prof IC Reid: £176,787 from Wellcome Trust for mechanisms underlying sensitisation of the 5-HT projections to dorsal hippocampus: a pivotal process involved in adaptation to chronic stress and the psychopathology of depression.
Dr KC Breen: £49,651 from PPP Healthcare Medical Trust for a study of the key factors that influence the transmission and progression of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and other spongiform encephalopathies.
Prof IC Reid, Dr KC Breen & Dr CA Stewart: £1,160 from Wellcome Trust for antidepressant treatments and neuronal markers of synaptic plasticity (Vacation Scholarship: Ms Helen-Louise Murphy).
Dr KC Breen: £5,008 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for evaluation of Research projects (x 3).
Psychology
Prof JB Todman & Dr N Alm (Applied Computing): £134,673 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC and Industrial Partners for a whole utterance-based communication aid for people without speech: An office workplace implementation (joint with University of Abertay).
Prof RA Kennedy: £41,705 from Economic and Social Research Council for development and testing of a corpus of eye movement data in English and French.
Dr DD Potter: £440 from The Royal Society for conference grant.
Dr DD Potter: £21,000 from The Robertson Trust for diagnostic markers for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome (Studentship: Mr Simon Webster) (joint with University of Glasgow & industrial partner).
Dr DD Potter: £12,000 from The Hugh Fraser Foundation for diagnostic markers for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome (Studentship: Mr Simon Webster) (joint with University of Glasgow & industrial partner).
School of Life Sciences
Dr JA Chudek: £94,264 from NERC for earthworm diverstiy and the integration of physical, biochemical and microbiological functions (Joint with Universities of Stirling and London).
Dr CX Moss: £85,176 from Wellcome Trust for dissection of proteolytic and unfolding events controlling class II MHC restricted antigen presentation (Travelling Research Fellowship).
Prof A Lamond: £528,170 from The Human Frontier Science Program for functional organisation of the cell nucleus investigated through proteomics and molecular dynamics (joint with University of Southern Denmark, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and University of Massachusetts).
Dr KG Storey: £890,746 from Medical Research Council for specification and regulation of vertebrate neural tube precursors (Senior Fellowship).
Dr CS Bond: £386,196 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for structural determinants in the control of DNA remodelling (David Phillips Fellowship).
Dr ST Safrany: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for a study of MutT proteins, guardians of cell integrity, using high performance liquid chromatography.
Dr JA Anderson: £59,276 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for supercritical CO2: Heterogeneous adsorption and reaction.
Dr WN Hunter: £1,261,575 from Wellcome Trust for structural biology of microbial enzymes (Senior Research Fellowship).
Dr T Owen-Hughes: £1,055,983 from Wellcome Trust for pathways for remodelling chromatin (Senior Research Fellowship).
Dr JCB Zomerdijk: £1,047,611 from Wellcome Trust for molecular mechanisms of regulated transcription by RNA polymerase I in mammalian cells (Senior Research Fellowship).
Dr WGF Whitfield: £10,750 from Wellcome Trust for an investigation of the nuclear and centrosomal functions of CP190 (joint with University of Cambridge).
Dr E Smythe: £182,424 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for regulation of clathrin coated vesicle formation by AP2 phosphorylation (joint with University of Cambridge).
Prof CJ Weijer & Dr BN Vasiev (Mathematics): £166,200 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for the role of paxillin in chemotactic cell movement, an analysis of its effect on traction and adhesion forces.
Dr MJR Stark: £182,584 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for characterising the role of novel components involved in sister chromatid cohesion.
Dr T Tanaka:£54,277 from Cancer Research Campaign for screening and characterisation of regulators to ensure bipolarity of kinetochore-microtubule attachment.
Prof EB Lane: £1,160 from Wellcome Trust for detailed histolgical analysis of Defolliculated, a new spontaneous hair-loss mutation (Vacation Scholarship: Jane Ross).
Prof C Tickle: £1,160 from Wellcome Trust for maintenance of the vertebrate limb polarizing region in cell culture (Vacation Scholarship: Ms Pamela Farquharson).
Dr D Van Aalten: £1,160 from Wellcome Trust for cloning, expression and crystallisation of mutated Fabl, an antibiotic resistant form of an essential gene in E.coli (Vacation Scholarship: Ms E Spathara).
Dr E Smythe: £1,160 from Wellcome Trust for regulation of clathrin coated vesicle formation by AP2 phosphorylation (Vacation Scholarship: Ms Gillian Shand).
Prof CJ Weijer: £1,160 from Wellcome Trust for investigation of the function of novel serpentine receptors in Dictyostelium development (Vacation Scholarship: Mr E Dioletis).
Dr AD Donaldson: £9,320 from The Royal Society for control of telomere replication.
Dr EV Karelskaya: £107,054 from Wellcome Trust for the preparation of hydrophobic phosphodisaccharides: substrate analogues/potential inhibitors of a drug target enzyme in the Leishmania (Travelling Research Fellowship).
Prof HG Jones: £4,609 from North Atlantic Treaty Organization for Ecosystem Management Database and Global Climate Change in Central Asia (EMDGCC).
Dr FB Eddy: £1,282 from The Royal Society for second international conference of comparative physiology and biochemistry in Africa. How animals work.
Dr AV Nikolaev: £6,115 from The Royal Society for ex-agreement visit from the former Soviet Union – Dr O Sizova.
Dr AD Donaldson & Dr JJ Blow: £37,943 from Cancer Research Campaign for control of chromosome replication by mim proteins in yeast and xenopus.
Dr PR Crocker: £1,500 from The Nuffield Foundation for a study Does sialic acid recognition by Siglecs regulate phagocytosis of opsonised erythocytes? (Undergraduate Research Bursary: Miss Danai Ben).
Dr WN Hunter: £1,500 from The Nuffield Foundation for initiating a crystallographic study of a biofunctional enzyme in the folate biosynthetic pathway (Undergraduate Research Bursary: Emma Byres).
Dr DR Alessi: £1,500 from The Nuffield Foundation for identification of substrates for the tumour suppressor protein kinase LKB1 (Undergraduate Research Bursary).
Dr CD Sutherland: £1,500 from The Nuffield Foundation for examination of a novel insulin-regulated phosphorylation (Undergraduate Research Bursary).
Dr FB Eddy:£700 from Carnegie Trust for metabolism of shellfish toxins in fish and shellfish and do alevins and juveniles of Atlantic salmon respond to water-borne signals from kin and non-kin?
Dr AH Fox: £40,158 from Wellcome Trust for purification and idenification of the protein components of nuclear coiled bodies (Travelling Research Fellowship – extension).
Dr J Thomson: £12,720 from The Royal Society for physico-chemical analysis of complexes formed by the HC-Pro-protein (Royal Society/NATO Fellowship: Dr AS Fadeev).
Prof GM Gadd: £1,850 from Carnegie Trust for modern perspectives in microbial metal transformation.
Dr SF Hubbard: £2,000 from Carnegie Trust for genetic methodologies for the detection of superparasitism outcomes in parasitic wasps.
Dr PR Crocker: £24,369 from Wellcome Trust for structure and function of sialoadhesion and CD33, cellular recognition molecules of the haemopoietic systems (Senior Research Fellowship) (supplement).
Prof C Tickle: £406,930 from The Royal Society for pattern formation Invertebrate Embryos with Special Reference to Limbs (Foulerton Research Professorship).
Dr JA Anderson: £70,849 from CEC Improving Human Potential Marie Curie Fellowship and synthesis and characterisation of heterogeneous catalysts for asymmetric hydroformylation reactions (Fellowship: Dr B Baeza).
Prof EB Lane: £90,259 from Wellcome Trust for cell culture models for the study of Keratin function in epithelia (Prize Studentship: Ms Heike Ross).
Prof CG Proud: £72,674 from Wellcome Trust for Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD programme (Geraldine Wei-Ling Toh).
Prof CG Proud: £72,674 from Wellcome Trust for Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD Programme (Andrew T Ferenbach).
Prof CG Proud: £72,674 from Wellcome Trust for Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD Programme (Sasala R Wickramasinghe).
Prof CG Proud: £72,674 from Wellcome Trust for Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD Programme (Arwen C Wilcock).
Prof CG Proud: £72,674 from Wellcome Trust for Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD Programme (Helder C Ferreira).
Prof MAJ Ferguson, Prof Sir P Cohen, Prof CP Downes, Prof AH Fairlamb, Dr WN Hunter, Prof A Lamond, Prof DMJ Lilley, Dr DG Norman, Prof C Watts & Prof JGW Williams: £17,944 from Wellcome Trust for the establishment of a Post-Genomics and Molecular Interactions Centre at the University of Dundee (Joint Infrastructure Fund – supplement).
Dr DR Alessi: £59,820 from Medical Research Council and Industrial Partner for physiological role of TAPP1 and TAPP2 in cells (CASE Studentship: Ms Wendy Kimber).
Prof MJ Rennie: £1,916 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for evaluation of proposals.
Surgery & Molecular Oncology
Prof Sir A Cuschieri, Dr T Frank & Dr C Song: £28,014 from Wellcome Trust for the Instron SFL mini environmental chamber and video extensometer (equipment).
Mr AM Thompson, Prof RJC Steele; Dr TR Hupp & Dr NM Kernohan (Molecular & Cellular Pathology):£16,775 from Chief Scientist Office for an investigation of the role of HIC1 (hypermethylated in cancer gene) and p53 function in human breast cancer (supplement).
Dr KL Ball: £93,787 from Cancer Research Campaign for G1 checkpoint pathways, regulation of p21 during gamma-irradiation and the development of human cancer (Senior Fellowship).
Prof Sir DP Lane: £50,315 from Cancer Research Campaign for annual equipment allocation.
Television & Imaging
Mr N Johnson: £4,966 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for ‘Soundscape’:a real-time interactive installation, utilising QuickTime panoramas of urban landscapes.
Town & Regional Planning
Dr AA Jackson: £1,756 from Canadian High Commission for Regional Development and Land Use Planning in Rural British Columbia: Peace in the Woods?
INDUSTRIAL AWARDS
Anaesthesia
Dr GA McLeod; Prof JJF Belch & Dr F Khan (Medicine): £33,330
Biomedical Research Centre
Dr C Elcombe: £1,057
Dr C Elcombe: £6,345
Dr C Elcombe: £760
Dr C Elcombe: £1,057
Dr C Elcombe: £8,225
Dr C Elcombe: £8,225
Dr C Elcombe: £13,366
Child Health
Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £19,922
Dr A Jovanovic: £24,667
Civil Engineering
Prof A Vardy: £12,455
Dr TA Newson, Dr MF Bransby & Prof MCR Davies: £25,556
Prof MCR Davies: £5,750
Dr TA Newson, Dr MF Bransby & Prof MCR Davies: £1,768
Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics
Dr AM Wilson: £2,820
Prof BJ Lipworth: £115,000
Prof BJ Lipworth: £54,260
Dental School
Dr RG Chadwick: £1,100
Dr C Pine: £63,670
Electronic Eng and Physics
Dr MJ Rose: £200,000 (joint with Napier University).
Epidemiology
Dr WL Wrieden & Prof AS Anderson: £12,691
General Practice
Prof FM Sullivan, Dr PT Donnan; Prof P Davey & Mr J Parkinson (Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics): £65,330
Prof FM Sullivan, Dr PT Donnan; Prof P Davey & Dr J Parkinson (Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics): £30,080
Dr DA Bruce: £2,600
Geography
Dr AR Black: £4,993
Dr AR Black: £352
Dr O Bragg: £3,000
Law
Dr PK Wouters: £332,482
Medicine
Dr AD Morris: £72,000
Dr AD Morris; Mr DIR Boyle, Prof P Davey, & Prof TM MacDonald (Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics); Dr PT Donnan (General Practice); Dr JD Ellis (Ophthalmology): £114,915
Dr AD Morris: £3,000
Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Prof MA Kerr: £10,000
Prof B Burchell & Dr MWH Coughtrie: £60,000
Prof JH Cummings: £7,500
Prof EG Wright, Dr PJ Coates & Ms S Lorimore: £190,983
Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Prof JJ Lambert, Dr D Belelli & Dr JA Peters: £69,101
Psychiatry
Dr KC Breen: £47,000
Dr DJK Balfour: £22,800
Radiotherapy
Dr MS Highley: £51,841
Research & Innovation Services
Mr J Houston: £3,150
School of Life Sciences
Prof A Lamond, Prof Sir P Cohen & Mr IR Leith: £15,000
Prof EB Lane: £1,000
Social Work
Prof J Hogg: £6,000
Surgery & Molecular Oncology
Dr BA Spruce & Prof JJ Lambert (Pharmacology & Neuroscience): £199,593
Town & Regional Planning
Prof MG Lloyd & Prof PW Roberts: £8,000
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