Research Grants

Total research income this month: £4,497,549.40

Details provided below may vary as a number of awards are subject to confidentiality restrictions imposed by the awarding body.

Accountancy

Mrs AM Fox & Ms L Stevenson: £1,750 from Learning and Teaching Support Network for peer mentoring students "at risk of failure": the influence of personality and approaches to learning on academic performance and progression (joint with University of Paisley).

Applied Computing

Dr A Dickinson: £121,244 from Royal Society of Edinburgh for the development of an appropriate and usable computer-based communication device for elderly people (RSE/Lloyds TSB Foundation Personal Research Fellowship).

Dr GPH Gregor: £1,410 from Social Care Institute for Excellence for evaluation of the research mindedness resource for usability and accessibility.

Dr N Hine: £29,000 from The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for access to ICT by young people.

Dr GPH Gregor: £1,527 from Joint Information Systems Committee for TECHDIS Workshops.

Dr P Sergeant, Dr SJ McKenna & Dr CA Reed: £18,215

Dr SM Parkes: £17,580

Dr SM Parkes: £45,913

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr CNA Palmer & Prof S Fleming (Pathology & Neuroscience): £114,983 from Association for International Cancer Research for PPARo as a drug target in prostate cancer.

Dr PR Clarke: £46,164 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of apoptosis by intracellular signals (Senior Cancer Research Fellowship).

Mr M Wilkie & Dr G Smith: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for does the inheritance of novel alleles of CREB1 influence susceptibility to or treatment response in major depression?

D M Nashed, Dr R Casasola (Surgery & Oncology) & Prof Sir DP Lane (Surgery & Oncology): £4,850 from Tayside Oncology Research Fund for discovery of new markers of response to treatment in patients with head and neck cancer.

Civil Engineering

Prof A Vardy: £11,000

Dr MF Bransby & Dr TA Newson: £5,264

Community Health Sciences

Dr B Guthrie & Prof FM Sullivan: £246,158 from Chief Scientist Office for developing and testing the next generation of measures of the quality of care for people with Type 2 Diabetes (Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship).

Prof IK Crombie, Dr L Irvine & Dr L Elliott (Nursing & Midwifery): £19,276 from Chief Scientist Office for health promotion in the workplace: identifying the scientific evidence for effective interventions.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Dr CJ Tilley: £2,290 from University of Aberdeen for Scottish Telemedicine Initiative - Orthodontic Telemedicine Service - provision of Health Economist evaluation.

Dental School

Dr J Foley: £9,600 from Tenovus Tayside for do bacteriophage act as a natural defence mechanism against dental caries in children? (joint with University of Edinburgh).

Dr AM Schor, Prof S Schor & Dr R Keatch (Mechanical Engineering): £380,212 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for the control and integration of angiogenesis at the tissue level: a multi-disciplinary study.

Dr M Macluskey: £4,075 from Anonymous Trust for the regulation of vasculogenesis in oral cancer.

Dr R Kay & Dr IR Ellis: £4,500 from Anonymous Trust for how the analysing of genes related to MSF secretion will help us modify wound healing and cancer progression.

Prof S Schor & Dr K Kankova: £5,125 from Anonymous Trust for the development of a serological test for MSF.

Dr AM Schor & Dr SJ Jones: £4,951 from Anonymous Trust for the identification of an endogenous angiogenic factor produced by sprouting endothelial cells.

Dr AM Schor & Mr P Davidson: 5,040 from Anonymous Trust for the influence of oxygen tension on stromal cell migration and proliferation.

Electronic Engineering & Physics

Dr DJ Keeble, Prof DMJ Lilley (School of Life Sciences) & Dr DG Norman (School of Life Sciences): £227,347 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for bringing the NMR paradigm to ESR (Basic Technology Research Programme) (joint with University of St Andrews).

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £50,000

Forensic Medicine

Prof DJ Pounder: £118,700 from The Nuffield Foundation for medico-legal training and education gender project CMW51/G (Extension).

Geography

Prof RW Duck: £1,600 from Carnegie Trust for impact of fronts on morphodynamics of the Richmond River Estuary.

Dr BW Brock: £1,200 from Carnegie Trust for late Pleistocene glaciation of the Tararua Range, North Island, New Zealand.

Dr FM Smith: £1,100 from Carnegie Trust for displays of home and nation: exhibiting the domestic spaces of the GDR in German museums.

Dr JS Rowan, Dr MEJ Cutler, Prof RW Duck & Dr AR Black: £49,306 from Scotland & Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER) for development of a technique for Lake Habitat survey (LHS) phase 1.

Dr O Bragg: £11,632.50

History

Dr M Frame: £1,450 from Carnegie Trust for research in Moscow on the Pioneers of Commercial Theatre in Late Imperial Russia.

Prof C McKean: £2,000 from The Clan Innes Trust for publication of research paper - architectural evolution of Innes house.

Maternal & Child Health Sciences

Dr A Mehta: £4,900 from Anonymous Trust for when the developing embryo needs to move. Fluid hair like structure etc.

Dr KJ Treharne: £3,745 from Anonymous Trust for outstanding fibrosis in the disease cystic fibrosis.

Dr SC Land: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for the molecular basis of inflammation-induced maturation of the fetal lung.

Dr SK Inglis: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for control of luminal pH in airways.

Dr A Jovanovic: £4,950 from Anonymous Trust for manipulation with Ap4A hydrolase levels and cardiac resistance to ischaemia.

Dr S Jovanovic: £4,950 from Anonymous Trust for ischemic preconditioning of the heart and species of creatine kinase physically associated with sarcolemmal Katp channels.

Dr MT Clunes & Dr SM Wilson: £4,614 from Anonymous Trust for circulating hormones and lung development.

Prof A Burchell: £4,380 from Anonymous Trust for disorders of liver glucose production.

Prof DJ Murphy: £3,715 from Anonymous Trust for the use of episiotomy in instrumental delivery.

Dr M Almaghrabi, Dr JS Forsyth & Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £5,480 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for does long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LCPUFA) supplementation of infant formula milk influence lung function and blood vessel function in children aged 8-10 years.

Dr SM Williamson & Dr S Greene: £11,100 from Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health for thyrotoxicosis in childhood – British paediatric surveillance unit bursary.

Dr G Mires & Prof JJF Belch (Medicine & Therapeutics): £30,000

Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £15,000

Mathematics

Prof T Goodman: £2,388 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for construction of smooth orthogonal refinable spline functions on general meshes (Visiting Fellowship: Professor D Hardin).

Mechanical Engineering

Prof EW Abel & Dr Q Zhao: £448,577 from Department of Health for surgical instrument coatings to minimise surface contamination (joint with Barts and the London School of Medicine and Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton).

Medicine & Therapeutics

Prof JJF Belch & Dr SR McEwan: £429,828 from Medical Research Council for the prevention of progression of asymptomatic diabetic arterial disease (POPADAD) study (extension) (joint with University of Edinburgh).

Dr DJR Cuthbertson: £33,660 from Tenovus Tayside for characterisation of the relationship between AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activity, glucose uptake and protein synthesis in human skeletal muscle: implications for identification of a new therapeutic target for Type 2 Diabetes.

Dr F Khan, Prof JJF Belch, Dr JI Davies & Prof AD Struthers: £9,775 from Tenovus Tayside for the role of endothelium-derived hyperpolarising factor (EDHF) in the control of vascular function.

Dr JR Petrie: £3,389.56 from Tenovus Tayside for do thiazolidinediones enhance vascular as well as metabolic insulin sensitivity?

Dr VA Spence: £1,864.95 from MERGE (ME Research Group for Education and Support) for ME/CFS Research Presentation - Equipment Award.

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Prof AD Struthers, Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe & Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre): £100,000 from Dr Janet Eleanor Leng Charitable Trust for TICR Clinical research room.

Dr T Fardon: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for titrating inhaled steroid dose against mannitol hyperresponsiveness of BTS outcomes: comparative effects on asthma exacerbations over 1 year.

Dr T Fardon: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for does fluticasone/salmeterol combination exhibit a putative in vivo steroid sparing anti-inflammatory action during step-down?

Prof AD Struthers: £1,880 from Anonymous Trust for does allopurinol reduce erythropoietin levels in cardiac failure?

Dr RD Gray: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for a proof of concept study to investigate the clinical, histological & molecular predictors of response to oral and intranasal corticosteroid in nasal polyposis.

Dr F Khan, Prof JJF Belch, Dr A Hill & Dr S Greene (Maternal & Child Health Sciences): £4,933 from Anonymous Trust for effects of therapy on asymmetric-dimethylarginine levels and endothelial function.

Mr SJ McSwiggan: £4,000 from Anonymous Trust for the clinical utility of left ventricular hypertrophy assessment combined with high sensitivity CRP in the detection of patients with increased risk at the Ninewells cardiovascular risk clinics.

Dr M McLaren: £3,500 from Anonymous Trust for HPA-1 Polymorphism in peripheral arterial disease.

Dr DJ Newton: £4,920 from Anonymous Trust for the inhibitory effect of local anaesthetics on the flare response to bradykinin and substance P.

Dr JA Woods & Dr H Moseley: £4,700 from Anonymous Trust for susceptibility of photofrin-exposed cells to exogenous oxidative DNA damage.

Dr R Tavendale: £5,516 from Anonymous Trust for myeloperoxidase levels and coronary heart disease risk.

Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe: £3,812 from Anonymous Trust for Chlamydia pneumoniae immune complexes and acute coronary syndromes.

Dr DJR Cuthbertson: £4,765 from Anonymous Trust for characterisation of the relationship between AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activity and glucose uptake in human skeletal muscle.

Dr RC Roberts: £3,003 from Anonymous Trust for quantitative assessment of hippocampal and amygdala volumes in epilepsy.

Prof JJF Belch: £200,000

Dr WL Wrieden: £1,924

Prof AS Anderson: £32,000

Prof TM MacDonald: £57,000

Prof AD Morris: £72,791

Dr JF Dillon: £1,260.19

Prof AS Anderson & Dr WL Wrieden: £17,474

Dr WL Wrieden: £10,756

Dr WL Wrieden: £1,667

Pathology & Neuroscience

Dr D Belelli, Prof JJ Lambert & Dr RC Roberts (Medicine & Therapeutics): £49,285 from Tenovus Tayside for Identifying GABAA receptor subtypes in the thalamus: new targets for the treatment of absence epilepsy?

Prof DA Levison, Prof FA Carey, Prof Sir DP Lane (Surgery & Oncology), Prof RJC Steele (Surgery & Oncology) & Prof CR Wolf (Biomedical Research Centre): £610,991 from Chief Scientist Office for national translational cancer research network (NTRAC) (joint with Beatson Laboratories, Glasgow).

Dr JA Peters: £8,200 from Tenovus Tayside for novel structural determinants of ion selectivity in 5-HT3 receptors.

Dr CJ Weir: £9,692 from Tenovus Tayside for defining a general anaesthetic binding site on the human GABAa receptor.

Dr D Bowen & Ms MEC Frew: £54,889 from Tayside Leukaemia and Haematology Endowment Fund for identification of protein and RNA signatures characteristic of RAS gene mutation in patients with myelodyplasia and acute myeloid leukaemia.

Dr CN Connolly: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for a novel approach to target GABA A receptors.

Dr CD Sutherland: £3,900 from Anonymous Trust for generation of insulin-resistant cell lines for the study of obesity-induced diabetes mellitus.

Dr J Harvey: £4,500 from Anonymous Trust for investigation into the potential role of leptin in hippocampal development.

Dr BG Frenguelli: £4,300 from Anonymous Trust for continuing investigations into a memory molecule.

Dr AJ Irving: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for alterations in glutamate/GABA receptor surface expression during ischemia.

Prof DA Levison & Mr D Kellock: £3,500 from Anonymous Trust for quantification of immuno-histochemical staining response - using computer assisted image analysis.

Prof JJ Lambert: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for the brain’s natural valium - neurosteroids - the role of PKCe.

Dr JA Peters: £4,400 from Anonymous Trust for an unexpected determinant of single conductance in the cys-loop family of transmitter-gated ion channels.

Dr E Avignone: £5,415.95 from Anonymous Trust for microscope upgrade to facilitate a comparative study of responses to stress in two types of brain cells with different sensitivities to cerebral ischemia.

Dr D Belelli: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for neurosteroid metabolism in a model of postpartum dysphoria.

Dr GA Lyles: £4,800 from Anonymous Trust for regulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in vascular smooth muscle cells by tumour necrosis factor-a.

Dr CA Stewart: £4,750 from Anonymous Trust for the effect of chemotherapy on nerve cell production in the brain.

Dr EAM Magee: £4,364.25 from Anonymous Trust for development of a biomarker of inorganic sulphur intake.

Mrs A Milne: £4,700 from Anonymous Trust for Pharmacogenomics of drug glucuronidation reactions.

Mrs S Sharp & Dr A Staines: £5,760 from Anonymous Trust for adverse drug reactions and phase II drug metabolism

Prof MWH Coughtrie: £2,950 from Anonymous Trust for role of steroid sulfatase in Breast Cancer - is it a novel risk factor.

Dr G Rena: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for the multi-disciplinary approaches to tackle the regulation of neurodegeneration, feeding and glucose homeostasis in mammals.

Prof MLJ Ashford: £4,000 from Anonymous Trust for characterisation of novel hypothalamic neurone cell lines.

Dr NM Kernohan: £4,500 from Anonymous Trust for induction of apoptosis in human cancer cell lines by deoxycholic acid.

Dr KE Robertson: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for digital microscopy as a means of accurately documenting and archiving the origin of tissue cores in tissue microarrays.

Dr E Furrie: £4,875 from Anonymous Trust for upregulation of human beta defensins in ulcerative colitis and their control by probiotic therapy.

Dr S Macfarlane: £4,953 from Anonymous Trust for expression of virulence factors in clostridium septicum, an opportunistic pathogen in the immunocompromised patient.

Dr AR Smith: £5,100 from Anonymous Trust for molecular fingerprinting of bacterial biofilms in the stomach.

Prof GT Macfarlane: £4,694 from Anonymous Trust for studies on mucosal biofilms in the large intestine in health and disease.

Dr S Ahmed: £4,765 from Anonymous Trust for analysis of bacterial populations colonising the gut wall in colon cancer patients.

Prof JH Cummings: £5,345 from Anonymous Trust for a pilot study of combined antibiotic therapy against mucosal flora in ulcerative colitis.

Dr SC Kong: £4,660 from Anonymous Trust for studying the hydrogen sulphide detoxification pathways in normal and ulcerative colitis (UC) rectal mucosae.

Dr KE Robertson & Dr J Berg: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for an investigation of the STK15 gene in breast cancer: what is the effect on tumour pathology, progression and prognosis?

Dr RC Durham: £8,982 from NHS Management Executive for long term outcome of cognitive behaviour therapy (extension).

Dr D Bowen: £207

Philosophy

Dr JR Williams: £456 from the British Academy for experimenting with intensities: science, philosophy, politics, art.

Dr TDJ Chappell: £1,500 from The Mind Association for conference grant - values and virtues conference.

Dr TDJ Chappell: £1,000 from The Scots Philosophical Club for conference grant - values and virtues conference.

Politics

Prof A Dobson: £2,000 from The British Academy for transatlantic studies conference.

Dr C Ross: £1,600 from Carnegie Trust for local Government and grassroots democracy in Russia.

Prof A Dobson: £2,000 from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for transatlantic studies conference.

Prof A Dobson: £1,635 from Embassy of the United States of America for transatlantic studies conference.

Prof A Dobson: £1,000 from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for the journal of transatlantic studies.

Psychology

Dr S Falconer: £11,480 from The British Academy for the casual role of coping in determining stress state outcomes in performance situations.

Research & Innovation Services

Mr J Houston: £1,000

Mr J Houston: £21,000

School of Life Sciences

Prof AH Fairlamb: £45,821 from Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative for gene replacement and RNA interference studies of DHFR-TS in African trypanosomes.

Dr JA Anderson: £18,064.13 from The Royal Society for combined instrumentation for simultaneous quantitative and spectroscopic determination of adsorbates (Paul Instrument Fund).

Dr NR Leslie & Prof CP Downes: £72,888 from Association for International Cancer Research for the nuclear localisation of the PTEN tumour suppressor: cellular function and regulation.

Dr A Gartner: £50,000 from Cancer Research UK for elucidation of DNA damage checkpoint pathways by C. elegans genetics (equipment).

Dr IS Nathke: £42,023 from Cancer Research UK for the role of APC protein in cell migration & colon cancer (senior fellowship) equipment grant.

Dr S Turban & Dr HS Hundal: £115,336 from EU Human Resources and Mobility for regulation of protein kinase b-mediated insulin signalling by atypical PKCs: implications for insulin resistance (Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship).

Dr JA Anderson: £7,200

Social Work

Prof N Baldwin: £8,500

Surgery & Oncology

Dr A Iqbal: £4,959 from Anonymous Trust for sonoelastography of breast tumours.

Prof AJ Munro & Dr C Longbottom (Dental Health Services Research Unit): £5,400 from Anonymous Trust for hydrocarbon breath tests as a measure of radiation-induced oxidative stress; a pilot study.

Prof AM Thompson: £425 from Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit for TEAM trial (clinical trial).

Town & Regional Planning

Prof MG Lloyd: £25,400 from Scottish Executive Development Department for evaluation of telecommunications planning controls.

Prof MG Lloyd: £8,800 from Scottish Executive Development Department for model policies in planning.

Ms DM Peel: £500 from Carnegie Trust for examining the Japanese experience of coastal intervention.

Dr WM Edgar: £22,204