Research Grants

Total research income this month: £3,096,466

Applied Computing

Prof AF Newell & Dr GPH Gregor: £616,754 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for Inclusive Design 2: providing tools to improve quality of life for the wider population (joint with Universities of Cambridge and York and Royal College of Art).

Dr GPH Gregor: £2,643.75

Biomedical Research Centre

Prof CR Wolf: £20,000 from National Translational Cancer Research Network for molecular analysis of K-ras related signalling pathways in colorectal cancer.

Dr PR Clarke: £25,537 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of capase-2 during DNA damage induced apoptosis (studentship: A Seifert).

Prof JD Hayes: £63,950 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council & Industrial Partner for co-ordinated COX, GST and MAPEG function dictates prostaglandin biosynthesis (CASE Studentship: Mr AK MacLeod).

Dr PR Clarke: £27,381 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of the apoptosis-promoting factor, Apaf-1 (studentship: Ms M Lickrish).

Community Health Sciences

Prof IK Crombie, Dr J Coyle, Dr L Irvine & Dr WL Wrieden (Medicine & Therapeutics): £137,071 from Chief Scientist Office for how can we improve the diet of young children living in areas of high deprivation? (joint with University of Stirling).

Dr BM Goudie, Dr PT Donnan, Prof FM Sullivan, Dr S Pringle (Medicine & Therapeutics) & Prof AD Struthers (Medicine & Therapeutics): £19,755 from Chief Scientist Office for general practitioner interpretation of pre-echocardiography ECGs in patients with symptoms suggestive of heart failure.

Dr JMM Evans & Prof MET McMurdo (Medicine & Therapeutics): £49,141 from Chief Scientist Office for type 2 diabetes in older people: how does age at diagnosis affect microvascular and macrovascular risk? (postgraduate studentship).

Dental School

Dr K Davey: £1,500 from Oral & Dental Research Trust for quantification of migration stimulation factor (MSF) in oral fluids and serum - do periodontal disease and smoking affect this angiogenic factor?

Prof S Schor & Dr AM Schor: £30,000.

Design

Prof T Inns: £385,248 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for designing the 21st century initiative: initiative director.

Geography

Prof A Werritty: £7,050.

Mechanical Engineering

Prof EW Abel: £21,565.

Medicine & Therapeutics

Dr G Kennedy, Prof JJF Belch, Dr A Hill, Dr F Khan, Dr VA Spence & Dr S Greene (Maternal & Child Health Sciences): £32,220 from MERGE (ME Research Group for Education and Support) for an investigation into biochemical and blood flow aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in children.

Prof AD Morris & Prof FM Sullivan (Community Health Sciences): £321,600 from Information and Statistics Division Scotland for SCI CHD Bronze - the development of an IT System for Acute Coronary Syndrome in Scotland (Joint with NHS Tayside).

Dr JF Dillon & Ms S McLeod (Pathology & Neuroscience): £2,291.25

Dr F Khan: £4,099.

Dr JF Dillon, Dr PT Donnan (Community Health Sciences), Mr D McLernon (Community Health Sciences) & Prof FM Sullivan (Community Health Sciences): £10,000.

Pathology & Neuroscience

Dr R Fearns: £459,305 from Medical Research Council for study of the respiratory syncytial virus polymerase (Career Establishment Grant).

Dr GA McLeod: £8,623 from Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association for an isobolographic analysis of diamorphine and levobupivacaine in early labour.

Mr R Cumo, Prof JH Cummings & Dr EAM Magee: £2,913 from The Rank Prize Funds for the development of a biomarker of inorganic sulphur intake: determination of the half-life of inorganic sulphur.

Prof MWH Coughtrie & Prof B Burchell: £67,917 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council & Industrial Partner for quantification of drug transporter expression in human, tissues (industrial CASE studentship: Mr G Lennie).

Prof K Matthews: £21,880.

Prof MLJ Ashford: £10,000.

Registry

Dr N Laker: £9,065 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for Doctoral Training Grant.

Research & Innovation Services

Mr J Houston: £11,750.

School of Life Sciences

Dr JK Dale: £249,532 from The Royal Society for primitive streak stem cell analysis and the role of Notch in their derivatives (University Research Fellowship).

Prof JJ Blow & Dr T Tanaka: £51,056 from Cancer Research UK for the role and organisation of replication foci in chromosome duplication.

Dr R Marquez: £85,092 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council & Industrial Partner for synthesis of novel isoprenoid biosynthesis inhibitors (CASE studentship: MVJ Villa).

Prof DG Hardie: £38,500 from Wellcome Trust for investigation of the physiological role of the B-glycogen binding domain of AMPK (Studentship: Mr A McBride).

Prof DA Cantrell: £38,500 from Wellcome Trust for function of protein kinase D3 (PKD3) in lymphocytes (Studentship: Miss R Chamberlayne).

Prof MJR Stark & Dr T Tanaka: £38,500 from Wellcome Trust for kinetochore phosphorylation and chromosome bi-orientation in the yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae (studentship: Mr P Keating).

Prof JJ Blow: £38,500 from Wellcome Trust for checkpoint activation as a consequence of chromosome re-replication (studentship: Mr I Davidson).

Dr ND Perkins: £38,500 from Wellcome Trust for regulation of NF-Kb function by atypical inducers (Studentship: Miss A Msaki).

School of Life Sciences: £500 from Wellcome Trust for Molecular & Cellular Biology PhD programme (supplement).

Prof DG Hardie: £59,370 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council & Industrial Partner for cloning DNA to study ligand binding properties (Indsutrial Case Studentship – Ms Fiona Ross).

Prof HG Jones: £30,000

Surgery & Oncology

Prof DI Rowley, Mr D Nicoll & Dr CA Wigderowitz: £13,828 from Chief Scientist Office for the effect of component position on pain and function after total knee replacement.

Prof Sir DP Lane & Dr S Lain: £24,918 from Kitty Cameron Endowment Fund for comparison of the pathways involved in the degradation of the p53 tumour suppressor in normal & transformed cells (studentship – year 2).

Mr SM Shimi: £20,411.