Research Grants

Applied Computing
Dr CA Reed: £64,192 from The Leverhulme Trust for argumentation schemes in natural and artificial communication.

Biomedical Research Centre
Prof JD Hayes: £119,162 from Association for International Cancer Research for contribution of Nrf2 and AhR to the actions of cancer chemoprotective blocking agents in human colon cells.
Dr LI McLellan: £180,736 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for antioxidant response and resistance to oxidative stress in Drosophila with respect to ageing.
Dr DW Brighty: £5,625 from Tenovus Tayside for indentification and functional analysis of novel peptide inhibitors of human T-cell leukaemia virus (HTLV-1) infection.
Dr PR Clarke: £ 23,237 from Cancer Research Campaign for postgraduate studentship (Ms Suzanne Brady).
Dr PR Clarke: £24,221 from Cancer Research Campaign for postgraduate studentship (Ms Catriona Clarke).

Centre for Dental Innovations
Dr C Longbottom and Prof NB Pitts: £143,468 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for Dental Terahertz Imaging (DENTIM) (joint with University of Cambridge : LINK project with industry).

Child Health
Dr L Finlay: £127,102 from Medical Research Council for the regulation of bicarbonate secretion in normal and cystic fibrosis airway epithelia (Clinical Research Training Fellowship).

Civil Engineering
Dr MR Jones: £174,150 from Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions and Industrial Sponsors for Development of Foamed Concrete Insulating Foundations for Building and Demonstration Project.
Dr MR Jones and Dr PAJ Tittle: £110,500 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for Alkali Pre-activation of PFA to Maximise its Use in Concrete Construction.
Dr MJ McCarthy: £66,075 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for Demonstration Project Using Conditioned PFA as a Cement Component in Concrete.
Dr MJ McCarthy: £56,705 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Industrial Sponsor for Use of By-products from Co-combustion Technology in Power Generation for Concrete Construction (CASE Studentship : Mr JH Brindle).
Dr MJ McCarthy and Prof RK Dhir: £194,438 from Scottish Enterprise Tayside and Industrial Sponsors for Design Formwork Pressures for the Range of New Cement Superplasticized and Self Compacting Concrete.
Prof RK Dhir, Dr MR Jones and Dr KA Paine: £143,575 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for Design Data for Use Where EN197 Low Heat Cements Are Used.
Prof RK Dhir and Dr MJ McCarthy: £149,975 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for Co-combustion in Electricity Generation on the Properties for Use in Concrete Construction.
Professor RK Dhir and Dr TD Dyer: £357,450 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Sponsors for Realising a High Value Sustainable Recycling Solution to the Imminent Glass Cullet Surplus.
Professor RK Dhir and Dr MC Limbachiya: £150,300 from Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions and Industrial Sponsors for Feasibility of Recycling Rubber Tyres for Use in Concrete.
Professor RK Dhir and Dr MC Limbachiya: £103,588 from Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions and Industrial Sponsors for Demonstration Project Utilising Coarse Recycled Aggregates.
Prof RK Dhir, Dr MD Newlands and Dr KA Paine: £3,800 from Norman Fraser Design Trust for Development of Cost Effective Self-compacting Concrete.
Dr P Dong & Dr RI Mackie: £123,401 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for development and applications of the Lattice Boltzmann method for simulating complex environmental flows.

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof CR Pennington & Prof G Macfarlane (Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £181,430 from PPP Healthcare Medical Trust for enteral tube feeding and bacterial overgrowth in the stomach and small intestine: The influence of synbiotics in the suppression of pathogens.
Mr BD Ofori & Prof P Davey: £94,524 from Chief Scientist Office for inception cohort study of the risk and cost of warfarin related hospitalisation in Tayside (Research Training Fellowship: Mr B Ofori).
Prof AD Struthers & Dr AD Morris (Medicine): £182,816 from British Heart Foundation for screening for treatable left ventricular abnormalities in Diabetes Mellitus.
Dr D Patterson & Prof TM MacDonald: £6,000 from Tenovus Tayside for What are the mechanisms whereby oral salt loading adversely affects tissue cardiovascular parameters in healthy volunteers?
Prof AD Struthers: £105,255 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for hypotensive peptides from milk proteins.

Dental Health Services Research Unit
Dr JE Clarkson, Prof NB Pitts, Dr D Evans (Dental School) and Prof F Sullivan (General Practice): £364,473 from Chief Scientist Office and Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for The Effect of Remuneration and Education on the Implementation of Evidence to Reduce Inequalities in Oral Health (joint with Universities of Aberdeen, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Scottish Consortium for development and education in Dental Primary Care, Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education and Scottish Children's Oral Health Focus Audit Group).
Dr JE Clarkson, Prof NB Pitts, Dr D Evans (Dental School) and Prof F Sullivan (General Practice): 39,330 from Chief Scientist Office and Scottish Consortium for development and education in Dental Primary Care for The Effect of Remuneration and Education on the Implementation of Evidence to Reduce Inequalities in Oral Health.

Economics
Dr P Allanson: £350 from The Royal Economic Society for the evolution of the racial wage hierachy in post-apartheid South Africa.

English
Dr AM Roberts, Dr J Stabler & Dr MH Fischer (Psychology): £50,715 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for the effects of form and technique on cognition, aesthetic response and evaluation in reading poetry.

General Practice
Prof FM Sullivan, Dr PT Donnan & Dr HC Pagliari; Dr P Gregor & Prof IW Ricketts (Applied Computing); Dr AD Morris (Medicine); Mr AM Thompson (Surgery & Molecular Oncology): £118,000 from Scottish Executive for proposal to evaluate ECCI (Electronic Clinical Communications Implementation programme)(joint with University of Glasgow).

Geography
Dr AD Reeves & Ms EA Kirk (Law): £39,556 from Economic and Social Research Council for disciplinary interactions: ontological commitments and regulation.

History
Dr JM Cornwall:£5,000 from The British Academy for the forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians: The impact of nationalism and fascism in the era of two world wars.

Mathematics
Prof MAJ Chaplain: £6,215 from The Royal Society for Ex-Agreement Visit from the former Soviet Union (Dr Samoletov).

Mechanical Engineering
Dr EW Abel: £3,000 from The Henry Lester Trust Limited for Dr Li Zhenbo.

Medical Physics
Dr RA Lerski: £2,157 from CEC Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for evaluation of research proposals.

Medicine
Prof AS Anderson: £38,816 from World Cancer Research Fund for Lessons for the listeners – consumers’ views on WCRF/AICR guidelines on prevention of cancer in Northern Europe and MesoAmerica (joint with Universities of St Andrews and Glasgow and institutions in The Netherlands, Guatemala and Mexico).
Prof JJF Belch, Dr G Kennedy & Dr M McLaren: £1,000 from The Scleroderma Society VWF as a marker of SSc disease activity.

Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Prof G Macfarlane: £157,180 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for molecular analysis of lumenal and mucosal microbial biofilm communities in the human large intestine.
Dr D Bowen: £72,513 from Leukaemia Research Fund for RAS oncogene mutation in adult acute myeloid leukaemia; analysis of the MRC AML 10/12 DNA cohort for mutation frequency, codon and cytogenetic specificity and clinical outcome.
Dr R Fearns: £161,504 from Wellcome Trust for roles of cis-acting sequences in the initial events of respiratory syncytial virus transcription and genome replication.
Dr R Fearns: £9,985 from Tenovus Tayside for regulation of respiratory syncytial virus nucleocapsid activity and transport in infected cells.

Nursing & Midwifery
Ms J Taylor & Mr S Cable: £9,957 from Aberlour Child Trust for evaluation study on the Camelon and Larbert Support to Parents Initiative (CLASP).
Dr L Elliott: £20,395 from Scottish Executive Central Research Unit for treatment and care services for young people with drug misuse problems.

Petroleum and Mineral Oil
Dr CP Andrews-Speed: £5,000 from International Institute for Strategic Studies for the strategic implications of China’s energy needs.
Ms JX Liao: £3,000 from Japan Foundation Endowment Committee for the energy factor in Sino-Japanese relations: Beyond economic cooperation.

Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Prof MLJ Ashford: £222,398 from Wellcome Trust for determination of the role of insulin receptor substrate proteins in leptin and insulin-sensitive hypothalamic neurones and their relation to feeding and obesity (joint with Imperial College School of Science, Technology and Medicine).
Dr AJ Irving & Dr BG Frenguelli: £261,492 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for metabrotropic glutamate receptors, supralinear Ca2+ signalling and associative synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus.

Psychiatry
Dr KC Breen; Prof JD Hayes & Dr LI McLellan (Biomedical Research Centre): £113,909 from Alzheimer’s Society for the role of oxidative stress in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease pathology.

Psychology
Dr F Sani & Dr M Bennett: £42,661 from Economic and Social Research Council for developmental aspects of social identity.

Radiotherapy
Dr PM Windsor & Ms K Nicol (Physiotherapy): £6,200 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for a study: Does four weeks of aerobic exercise reduce the incidence of treatment-related fatigue in adult men receiving radical external beam radiotheraphy for localised carcinoma of the prostrate?

School of Fine Art
£30,000 from The Henry Moore Foundation for Henry Moore Fellowship (Sculpture) 2001-2003 (N. Coley). £30,000 from The Henry Moore Foundation for Henry Moore Fellowship (Sculpture) 1999-2001 (S.J.Starling).

School of Life Sciences
Prof MJ Rennie, Prof DG Hardie & Dr GP Leese (Medicine): £78,550 from Diabetes UK for characterisation of the relationship between AMP-activated protein kinase activity and glucose uptake in human skeletal muscle.
Prof DG Hardie: £964,595 from Wellcome Trust for structure, localization and function of components of the AMP-activated protein kinase cascade.
Dr IS Nathke: £95,636 from Cancer Research Campaign for the role of APC protein in cell migration and colon cancer (Senior Fellowship).
Mr P Schofield: £189,727 from Wellcome Trust for empirical approaches to verifying novel individual-based mathematics models of the spatio-temporal dynamics of parasite-host-pathogen associations: Sex, flies and videotape (Research Training Fellowship).
Dr IS Nathke: £67,122 from Cancer Research Campaign for the adenomatous polyposis coli protein in cell cycle regulation.
Dr AD Donaldson: £48,788 from Cancer Research Campaign for programming of telomere replication time by the yeast Ku complex.
Dr JR Swedlow: £63,504 from Cancer Research Campaign for the regulations of aurora kinases and mitotic chromosome condensation.
Prof EB Lane: £280,962 from Cancer Research Campaign for expression and function of intermediate filaments in epithelial differentiation.
Dr HS Hundal: £116,742 from Diabetes UK for regulation of protein kinase B-mediated insulin signalling by atypical PKCs: implications for insulin resistance.
Dr ND Perkins: £37,742 from Cancer Research Campaign for investigation of a novel interaction between c-Myc and the Re1A (p65) NF-kappaB subunit.
Dr ND Perkins: £41,670 from Cancer Research Campaign for molecular and functional characterisation of the cell cycle regulated CRD1 transcriptional repression domain in the cellular coactivator p300.
Prof C Tickle: £1,974 form Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for chicken biology and genomics (ISIS Scheme: Y Matsuda).
Prof C Tickle: £1,974 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC for chicken biology and genomics (ISIS Scheme: S. Takeda).
Prof C Tickle: £31,476 from The Royal Society for pattern formation Invertebrate Embryos with Special Reference to Limbs (Foulerton Research Professorship: supplement for year 1).
Prof HG Jones: £4,325 from The Royal Society for Ex-Agreement visit from the former Soviet Union – Dr Vysotskaya.
Dr T Tanaka: £27,706 from European Molecular Biology Organisation for establishment of Sister Chromatid Cohesion (Young Investigator Program).
Dr T Owen-Hughes: £27,706 from European Molecular Biology Organisation for pathways for remodelling Chromatin (Young Investigator Program).
Dr AD Donaldson: £27,706 from European Molecular Biology Organisation for Control of Chromosome Replication in S. cerevisiae (Young Investigator Program).
Dr ND Perkins: £54,926 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC and Industrial Partner for investigation of the mechanisms controlling NF-KB dependant gene expression in Monocytic cells (CASE Studentship: Omar Sharif).
Dr PR Crocker: £74,937 from Wellcome Trust for Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD Programme (Ms A Moynihan).
Dr JJ Blow: £24,221 from Cancer Research Campaign for Postgraduate Studentship for Chromosome Replication Research Group (Ms M Oehlmann).
Prof Sir P Cohen: £244,723 from Wellcome Trust for Wellcome Trust Biocentre (supplement).
Prof Sir P Cohen: £7,312,000 from Medical Research Council for Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation Unit – baseline funding and new programmes.
Prof DMJ Lilley: £23,237 from Cancer Research Campaign for recognition of DNA structure by proteins (Studentship: Ms S Liu).

Surgery & Molecular Oncology
Dr BA Spruce: £49,032 from Cancer Research Campaign for the sigma receptor: a new target for the treatment of cancer.
Prof Sir DP Lane: £479,106 from Cancer Research Campaign for exploiting tumour suppressor gene pathways for therapy.
Mr AM Thompson, Prof RJC Steele, Mr SM Shimi, Prof AJ Munro & Dr KL Ball; Dr RA Brown (Mathematics); Dr FA Carey, Dr JF Dillon & Dr TR Hupp (Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £36,225 from Chief Scientist Office for novel diagnostic assays to define radiation sensitivity in the treatment of oesophageal cancer (extension).
Prof Sir DP Lane: £59,820 from Cancer Research Campaign for peptide synthesis system (EPA).

INDUSTRIAL AWARDS

Applied Computing
Dr S Parkes: £46,459
Dr S Parkes: £14,205
Dr P Gregor & Dr N Alm: £90,000

Biomedical Research Centre
Prof CR Wolf & Dr DW Brighty: £125,000 Prof JD Hayes & Dr LI McLellan: £99,000. Prof CR Wolf & Dr C Elcombe: £325,000. (Joint with Roslin Institute, Edinburgh). Dr C Elcombe: £17,742 Dr C Elcombe: £7,050 Prof CR Wolf & Dr H Vosper: £39,032

Civil Engineering
Dr TA Newson, Prof MCR Davies & Dr MF Bransby: £1,708

Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof BJ Lipworth: £84,600

Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe: £6,862

Child Health
Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £21,150

Civil Engineering
Prof A Vardy: £24,000

Epidemiology
Dr FLR Williams: £5,000

General Practice
Prof FM Sullivan & Dr HT Dougall: £391,598

Geography
Dr AR Black: £3,850

Mathematics
Prof PD Smith: £16,450

Medicine
Dr WL Wrieden: £45,676 (joint with Universities of Newcastle and London). Dr AD Morris: £3,325

Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Prof B Burchell: £27,824

Nursing & Midwifery
Mr S Cable & Ms J Taylor: £7,836

Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Prof JJ Lambert, Dr D Belelli & Dr JA Peters: £52,732

School of Life Sciences
Dr PR Crocker: £43,200 Prof DA Cantrell: £83,250

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