Research Grants

Total research income this month: £6,003,189.60

Accountancy

Dr CV Helliar, Prof DM Power & Ms RLC Michaelson: £62,000 from The Stewart Ivory Foundation for FINESSE (joint with University of St Andrews).

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr G Smith, Dr SH Ibbotson (Medicine & Therapeutics) & Dr R Dawe (Medicine & Therapeutics): £9,250 from British Skin Foundation for the influence of glutathione s-transferase (GST) genotype on response to narrow band UVB (TL-01) phototherapy.

Prof CR Wolf & Prof C Tickle (School of Life Sciences): £316,776 from Wellcome Trust for the role of the cytochrome p450 system in embryonic development.

Prof E Rankin: £36,008 from Cancer Medicine Research Endowment Fund for effect of chemotherapy on events in the p53 pathway in normal and malignant tissues.

Civil Engineering

Prof PA Davies: £41,042 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for blocked flows over estuarine barriers: consequences for estuarine morphology.

Prof RK Dhir & Dr TD Dyer: £248,075 from RMC Environment Fund and Industrial Partners for a guide to determining best practicable environmental options for recycling demolition waste.

Prof RK Dhir & Dr JE Halliday: £218,813 from DTI and Industrial Partners for resolving feasibility of recovery and benefication of stockpiled and landfilled PFA for use in construction.

Dr MR Jones & Prof RK Dhir: £74,038 from Quarry Products Association and British Cement Association for carbonation resistance classes and bench marking of UK concrete.

Dr MR Jones: £17,625 from Building Research Establishment for pilot study for the development of concrete materials with no or minimal primary aggregate content.

Dental School

Dr J Foley & Dr A Logie: £5,900 from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for - do bacteriophage act as a natural defence mechanism against dental caries in children? (joint with University of Edinburgh).

Dr K Davey: £3,731.20 from The British Society of Periodontology for quantification of MSF in oral fluids and serum - do periodontal disease and smoking affect this angiogenic factor?

Economic Studies

Dr MK Jones: £4,200 from The British Academy for - do cultures clash? - Cross-cultural pairings in experimental game play (joint with University of Nottingham Business School, Malaysia).

English

Dr V Skretkowicz: £1,604.31 from The Russell Trust for dictionary of Scots language.

Geography

Dr AD Reeves, Dr JS Rowan, Dr RW Duck: £2,400 from British Council for collaboration with Chiang Mai University on Sustainability of Rural Livelihood Systems.

History

Dr JM Cornwall: £156,924 from the Arts and Humanities Research Board for Memorialisation and regeneration: the male wartime generation in the successor states 1918-1930.

Maternal & Child Health Sciences

Prof RE Olver: £12,500 from Cystic Fibrosis Trust for clinical support and improvement grant.

Medical Education

Ms L Malek: £11,450 from the Association for the Study of Medical Education for - what are the potential benefits of a structured, checklist-based approach in the teaching and assessment of practical skills in medicine, dentistry and nursing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels (ASME Research Fellowship 2003).

Medicine & Therapeutics

Prof AD Struthers, Prof JJF Belch, Dr JI Davies, Prof PA Stonebridge & Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe (Primary Care Health Sciences): £70,860 from Chief Scientist Office for left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with peripheral arterial disease: the first steps in addressing a new treatable culprit.

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Prof AD Struthers, Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre) & Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe (Primary Care Health Sciences): £50,000 from The Mathew Trust for contribution towards employment costs of The Institute of Cardiovascular Research.

Pathology & Neuroscience

Dr TR Hupp: £120,473 from the Association for International Cancer Research for function of a novel anti-apoptotic stress protein expressed in Barretts oesophagus.

Dr JA Peters & Prof JJ Lambert: £307,359 from Wellcome Trust for cytoplasmic determinants of single channel conductance in the Cys-loop family of receptors.

Prof S Fleming & Prof DA Levison: £45,000 from Dr Janet Eleanor Leng Charitable Trust for collaborative lymphoma research programme.

Dr TR Hupp: £13,578 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2003/2004.

Prof JH Cummings: £128,524 from Chief Scientist Office for the characteristics of bacterial biofilm communities of the large bowel of ulcerative colitis and their modification by diet (supplement).

Dr D Zador, Dr A Baldacchino, Dr B Kidd and Prof T Fahey (Primary Care Health Sciences): £193,517 from Scottish Executive for national investigation into drug related deaths in Scotland 2003 (joint with University of Paisley; Imperial College, London and Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, Glasgow).

Dr A Baldacchino & Ms CL Hodges: £84,323 from Scottish Executive for services for people with co-morbid mental health and substance use problems.

Psychology

Dr MH Fischer: £5,400 from The Nuffield Foundation for interpersonal space and motor control.

Dr RPG Van Gompel: £4,876 from The British Academy for the effect of readers' task and goal on syntactic ambiguity resolution.

Dr LG Duncan: £1,743 from British Council for morphological processing and written word recognition during early reading acquisition: a cross-linguistic investigation of English and French (alliance: Franco-British partnership programme 2004).

School of Life Sciences

Dr ND Perkins: £55,823 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of NF-kB transcriptional activity by the ARF tumour suppressor.

Prof DMJ Lilley: £263,620 from Cancer Research UK for structure of nucleic acids and recognition by proteins.

Prof EB Lane: £308,803 from Cancer Research UK for expression and function of intermediate filaments in epithelial differentiation.

Dr T Tanaka: £49,353 from Cancer Research UK for screening and characterisation of regulators to ensure biopolarity of kinetochore-microtubule attachment.

Dr JR Swedlow: £52,635 from Cancer Research UK for the regulations of aurora kinases and mitotic chromosome condensation.

Prof JJ Blow: £11,330 from Cancer Research UK for Dundee Cancer Research UK co-operative centre.

Prof GM Gadd: £1,890 from The Royal Society for a conference grant.

Prof EB Lane: £23,950 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2003/2004.

Prof DMJ Lilley: £20,716 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2003/2004.

Prof JJ Blow: £28,889 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2003/2004.

Dr HS Hundal: £1,200 from Royal Society of Edinburgh for visit of Professor Gorski.

Dr T Owen-Hughes: £24,000 from Wellcome Trust for the role of non-canonical nucleosome structures in chromatin remodelling (studentship: Mr M Engeholm).

Dr ND Perkins: £36,000 from Wellcome Trust for functional analysis of the p52 NF-kB subunit (studentship: Miss K Schumm).

Prof GJ Barton: £30,390 from Wellcome Trust for computer analysis and prediction of targets and sites of protein phosphorylation (studentship: Mr D Miranda-Saavedra).

Prof MAJ Ferguson: £42,297 from Wellcome Trust for novel glycoconjugates and sugar nucleotide metabolism in trypanosomes (studentship: Mr D Turnock).

Dr IM Eggleston: £24,000 from Wellcome Trust for synthesis of natural product analogues as potential chemotherapeutic agents (studentship: Mr M Allwood).

Prof CP Downes: £ 66,860 from Biotechnology and Biological Research Council and Industrial Partner for feedback regulation of insulin stimulated PI 3-kinase dependent (CASE Studentship: Mr J Lackey).

Prof DMJ Lilley: £24,811 from Cancer Research UK for RNA structure and protein interaction in the ribosome (studentship: B Turner).

Social Work

Dr BA Gillies, Dr MK Simpson & Ms L Walker: £87,000 from Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education for learning for effective and ethical practice: opportunities for inter-professional learning.

Dr BA Gillies, Prof J Hogg & Ms M Gee: £65,000 from Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education for involvement of users and carers.

Surgery & Molecular Oncology

Prof DI Rowley: £8,914 from MRC Health Services Research Collaboration for 600 cohort - outcome measures of joint replacement.

Prof Sir DP Lane: £41,067 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2003/2004.

Dr KL Ball: £7,944 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2003/2004.

Dr A Iqbal, Prof Sir A Cuschieri & Dr T Frank: £5,299 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for sonoelastography (ultrasound imaging to detect tissue elasticity) of breast tumours.

Town & Regional Planning

Mr J McCarthy: £300 from Carnegie Trust for cultural quarters for urban regenerations: a comparison of practice in the UK.

Industrial Awards

Applied Computing
Dr GPH Gregor: £23,534
Dr GPH Gregor & Dr N Alm: £23,895
Prof AF Newell: £7,780
Dr GPH Gregor: £4,112
Dr GPH Gregor: £2,938
Dr GPH Gregor: £16,039

Civil Engineering
Prof RMW Horner: £29,375
Dr TA Newson & Dr F Gunzel: £1,938
Dr MR Jones: £214
Dr MR Jones: £94
Dr MR Jones: £3,172

Dental School
Prof S Schor & Dr AM Schor: £29,847
Prof S Schor: £4,000

Geography
Prof A Findlay & Mr DS Houston: £9,750

Maternal & Child Health Sciences
Dr A Mehta: £32,378

Medicine & Therapeutics
Prof AD Struthers, Dr S Pringle, Prof FM Sullivan (Primary Care Health Sciences), Dr PT Donnan (Primary Care Health Sciences) &
Dr BM Goudie (Primary Care Health Sciences): £124,670
Prof AD Morris & Dr GP Leese: £223,975
Prof JJF Belch, Mr SJ McSwiggan & Prof PA Stonebridge: £7,786
Prof AD Morris & Dr GP Leese: £7,936

Pathology & Neuroscience
Prof S Fleming & Prof DA Levison: £15,000
Prof JJ Lambert: £31,317

Primary Care Health Sciences
Prof FM Sullivan, Dr PT Donnan & Dr J Clarkson (Dental Health Services Research Unit): £457,959
Mrs G Hoskins: £39,061

Research & Innovation Services
Mr J Houston: £35,000
Mr J Houston: £80,000

School of Life Sciences
Prof HG Jones: £1,117,553
Dr A Jones: £4,700
Mr DJ Lamont: £28,200
Dr PR Crocker: £36,310

Social Work
Prof N Baldwin & Ms D Part: £12,159
Prof N Baldwin: £11,200
Prof N Baldwin: £21,253

Surgery & Molecular Oncology
Dr BA Spruce & Prof JJ Lambert (Pathology & Neuroscience): £29,963