Research Grants

Total research income this month: £18,639,836

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

Accountancy

Ms RLC Michaelson: £32,784 from EU Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for E-Legi (FP6).

Mr DJ Collison, Prof DM Power & Ms L Stevenson: £3,000 from The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants for an investigation of the performance of FTSE4Good.

Dr B Burton: £1,800 from Scottish Accountancy Research Trust for governance and accountability - perceptions in developing countries - interview study of key players' views regarding corporate governance norms in Uganda.

Applied Computing

Prof J Arnott & Dr N Hine: £674,976 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for supporting independence: new products, new practices, new communities (EQUAL) (joint with Imperial College, University College London and Barnsley District General Hospital).

Dr N Alm & Mr GM Gowans: £322,226 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for developing an interactive multimedia activity system for elderly people with dementia.

Dr N Alm: £660 from The Royal Society for the 9th international conference on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.

Dr SM Parkes: £292,200 from NERC for NERC support for the Satellite Receiving Station at the University of Dundee (DSRS) (2004/2005).

Dr GPH Gregor & Prof IW Ricketts: £5,178 from East of Scotland Primary Care Research Network (EASTREN) for decision aid and decision support tool for the management of hypertension in the community.

Dr GPH Gregor: £5,170.

Dr GWA Rowe: £81,318.

Dr GPH Gregor: £2,500.

Dr GPH Gregor: £940.

Dr CJ MacAulay: £5,444.

Dr GPH Gregor: £940.

Dr GPH Gregor: £3,290.

Dr GPH Gregor & Mr S Milne: £3,760.

Dr GPH Gregor: £940.

Dr GPH Gregor: £6,110.

Dr GPH Gregor & Mr D Sloan: £235.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr PR Clarke: £45,620 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for regulation of the functional assembly of the claspin-Chk1 DNA damage signalling complex (Research Studentship: Ms L Bennett).

Dr M Nashed, Dr R Casasola (Surgery & Oncology) & Prof AJ Munro (Surgery & Oncology): £5,000 from The Melville Trust for the Care &* Cure of Cancer for the development of real-time predictive assays for increased sensitivity to ionising radiation in patients with head and neck and colorectal cancers.

Prof CR Wolf: £61,850 from Cancer Research UK for clinical equipment allocation grant.

Prof CR Wolf, Dr CNA Palmer & Dr C Elcombe: £55,946.

Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy

Dr C Roberts: £7,600.

Civil Engineering

Prof MCR Davies & Dr MF Bransby: £10,500 from EU CRAFT Programme for SSSOD (CRAFT Project).

Prof MCR Davies: £125,028 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for design and assessment of condition of soil anchorages in a dynamic environment using the centrifuge modelling technique (joint with University of Aberdeen).

Dr P Dong: £9,409 from The Royal Academy of Engineering for a study of the long-term morphilogical processes of the yellow river estuary and adjacent coastline (extension).

Prof A Vardy: £20,233 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for full-scale airflow measurements in a railway tunnel airshaft.

Prof A Vardy: £5,000 from Norman Fraser Design Trust for deployable canopy project.

Dr MF Bransby & Dr TA Newson: £2,350.

Prof RMW Horner, Dr L Dooley & Dr D Kirk: £187,046.

Community Health Sciences

Dr B Guthrie, Dr JMM Evans, Dr PT Donnan, Mr S Cunningham (Medicine and Therapeutics) & Prof AD Morris (Medicine and Therapeutics): £112,670 from Chief Scientist Office for proposal to evaluate the managed clinical network for diabetes in Tayside, as a model for emerging diabetes MCNs across Scotland (joint with University of St Andrews and University of Edinburgh).

Prof T Fahey, Dr PT Donnan, Prof FM Sullivan, Dr GPH Gregor (Applied Computing) & Prof IW Ricketts (Applied Computing): £98,547 from The Stroke Association for cluster randomised trial of a computer based clinical decision support system and decision aid for patients with high blood pressure in the community - clinical trial (joint with University of Bristol).

Prof T Fahey, Dr PT Donnan, Dr GPH Gregor (Applied Computing), Prof IW Ricketts (Applied Computing), Prof RJC Steele (Surgery & Oncology) & Mr MA Thaha (Surgery & Oncology): £59,123 from Cancer Research UK for development of a clinical prediction rule for the diagnosis and referral of patients with suspected colorectal cancer in primary care.

Dr B Williams & Prof FM Sullivan: £117,500.

Prof IK Crombie, Dr L Irvine, Mrs H Wallace & Dr L Elliott (Nursing & Midwifery): £248,956.

Prof FM Sullivan & Prof AD Morris (Medicine & Therapeutics): £4,000.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Dr J Clarkson & Dr BC Bonner: £15,000 from Chief Scientist Office for the effectiveness of enhanced oral health advice and instruction upon patient oral hygiene, knowledge and self-reported behaviour: a randomised controlled trial.

Prof NB Pitts, Dr C Longbottom & Dr JR Radford (Dental School): £43,191.

Dental School

Dr RG Chadwick & Mr AG Mason: £1,347.50 from NHS Education for Scotland for dental research audit for NHS general dental practitioners.

Dr RG Chadwick: £2,000 from Learning and Teaching Support Network for enhancing clinical learning - evaluation of a novel approach.

Dr AM Schor & Prof S Schor: £25,000.

Electronic Engineering & Physics

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £32,750.

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £1,316.

Dr DM Goldie: £3,016.

English

Dr GCL Low: £1,650 from Scottish Arts Council for Caribbean research seminar in the north.

Prof PJ Kitson: £2,504 from The British Academy for white cannibalism: romantic poetry and survival narratives 1780-1830.

Education

Mrs H Kennedy: £4,000 from Diabetes UK for quality care in young people with type 1 diabetes (Join with University of St Andrews).

Geography

Prof A Findlay: £7,000 from Chief Scientist Office for Scottish longitudinal study - extension (joint with University of St Andrews).

Dr M Kirkbride: £2,000 from Moray Endowment Fund from electron microprobe analyses of tephra microparticles.

Prof A Findlay: £65,698 from Scottish Executive and Chief Scientist Office for Scottish Longitudinal Study (joint with University of St Andrews).

History

Dr AR MacDonald: £14,013 from Arts & Humanities Research Board for the Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550 - c. 1650 (research leave scheme).

Dr JM Cornwall: £1,000 from The British Academy for Imagining German and Czech National Identities in Northern Bohemia, 1830 - 1880.

Dr AR MacDonald: £550 from Carnegie Trust for The Scottish Burghs and Parliament (1500-1650).

Dr M Frame: £2,962 from The British Academy for theatre and civil society in Imperial Russia.

Dr MJ Van Ittersum: £1,250 from Carnegie Trust for Profit and Principle: Hugo Grotius, Natural Rights Theories and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies, 1595-1615.

Dr JM Regan: £1,700 from Carnegie Trust for the impact of the Northern Ireland crisis on southern nationalism.

Law

Ms EA Kirk: £2,350 from The British Academy for compliance with international environmental norms - reporting in theory and practice (conference grant).

Maternal & Child Health Sciences

Prof RE Olver: £46,222 from The George John Livanos Charitable Trust for airway ion secretion (PhD studentship: Ms E Husband).

Dr W McGuire & Prof T Fahey (Community Health Sciences): £28,859 from Tenovus Tayside for should young children with acute diarrhoea avoid milk?

Prof DJ Murphy: £81,265 from Tenovus Tayside for trial of the use of episotomy for instrumental delivery (joint with St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol).

Prof A Burchell, Dr A Harrold, Prof R Hume & Dr M Rajkhowa: £248,594 from Medical Research Council for North of Scotland Stem Cell Initiative (NOSCI) (joint with University of Aberdeen & University of Edinburgh).

Dr A Mehta, Dr A Jovanovic & Dr RM Crawford: £187,777 from Wellcome Trust for molecular interactions of CFTR, AMPK & NDPK in Cystic Fibrosis.

Dr A Jovanovic: £119,305 from British Heart Foundation for diadenosine tetraphosphate-mediated regulation of sarcolemmal KATP channels in the heart.

Dr A Jovanovic: £127,035 from British Heart Foundation for a link between sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive K+ (Katp) channels and AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK) in mediating cardioprotective signalling.

Mathematics

Prof MAJ Chaplain: £150,372 from EU Human Resources and Mobility for modelling, mathematical methods and computer simulation of tumour growth and therapy (FP6).

Prof A Panfilov: £920 from The Royal Society for 25th annual scientific sessions of NASPE (conference grant).

Mechanical Engineering

Prof EW Abel & Dr AP Slade: £178,640

Medicine & Therapeutics

Dr C Mowat & Dr JF Dillon: £1,386.22 from NHS Tayside for infleximab in patients with active ulcerative colitis - (extension).

Dr SH Ibbotson & Dr G Smith (Biomedical Research Centre): £20,911 from Chief Scientist Office for individually in cutaneous gene expression as a potential phenotypic marker of response to therapy in patients with psoriasis - further validation of the experimental model.

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Dr F Khan, Dr M McLaren & Dr S Greene (Maternal & Child Health Sciences): £233,223 from Chief Scientist Office for changing lifestyle in children - all change: can this reduce cardiovascular risk? (joint with University of St Andrews).

Dr JI Davies, Prof AD Morris & Prof AD Struthers: £91,335 from Tenovus Tayside for will a drug that reduces deaths in heart failure also reduce deaths in diabetic patients with high blood pressure.

Prof AD Struthers, Dr JI Davies & Dr JG Houston (Surgery & Oncology): £60,902 from British Heart Foundation for does allupurinol improve left ventricular remodelling in heart failure?

Mrs RJG Price, Prof MET McMurdo & Prof AS Anderson: £23,621 from Chief Scientist Office for programme development, feasibility and acceptability of a snack-based dietary intervention for hip fracture patients.

Prof TM MacDonald: £44,786 from Chief Scientist Office for does adosterone: renin ratio predict the efficacy of spironolactone over bendrofluazide in hypertension? A pragmatic, randomised crossover study (extension) (joint with University of Glasgow).

Prof AD Struthers, Prof AD Morris, Dr JI Davies, Dr RS MacWalter & Dr JG Houston (Surgery & Oncology): £147,994 from Chief Scientist Office for left ventricular hypertrophy in "normotensive" individuals: would reducing BP further enhance LVH regression?

Dr F Khan: £589 from The Royal Society for conference grant to attend the 21st world congress for the international union of angiology.

Dr F Khan, Prof AD Struthers, Dr JI Davies & Prof JJF Belch: £11,035 from MERGE (ME Research Group for Education & Support) for acetylcholine-mediated vasodilatation in CFS/ME patients: the role of nitric oxide (NO), prostacyclin and endothelium-derived hyperpolarising factor (EDHF).

Prof AD Struthers, Dr S Pringle & Dr PT Donnan (Community Health Sciences): £104,071 from British Heart Foundation for does aldosterone blockade improve endothelial dysfunction in patients with coronary artery disease but without heart failure?

Prof AD Morris: £65,346 from Cardiology Research Endowment Fund for cardiology integrated databases (extension).

Dr SR McEwan & Prof JJF Belch: £16,346 from Scottish Heart and Arterial disease Risk Prevention for ten year follow-up for the SHARP cardiovascular population study relation to morbidity and mortality data (extension).

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Prof CC Lang, Prof PA Stonebridge, Prof AD Struthers, Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe & Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre): £1,000 from The WM Mann Foundation for development of The Institute of Cardiovascular Research.

Prof JJF Belch & Dr M McLaren: £10,000 from Sir John Fisher Foundation for contribution towards fellowship funding.

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Prof AD Struthers, Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe & Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre): £20,000 from Tay Charitable Trust for funds for TICR clinical research room.

Dr JA Woods: £40,000.

Prof AS Anderson & Dr WL Wrieden: £6,368.50.

Dr WL Wrieden: £61,927.

Dr WL Wrieden (joint with Universities of Surrey and Strathclyde): £156,404.

Prof P Davey: £133,695.

Pathology & Neuroscience

Dr AJ Irving: £8,100 from Tenovus Tayside for cannabinoid receptor dynamics.

Dr D Bowen: £34,382 from Tayside Leukaemia and Haematology Endowment Fund for clinical research data manager.

Prof S Fleming & Dr L Christie: £90,290 from Tenovus Tayside for the detection of early kidney cancer.

Prof JJ Lambert & Dr D Belelli: £219,459.85 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council for inhibitory neurotransmission in the thalamus and modulation by general anaesthetics and sedatives.

Dr GA McLeod, Prof JJF Belch (Medicine & Therapeutics), Dr F Khan (Medicine & Therapeutics) & Dr DJ Newton (Medicine & Therapeutics): £14,915.76 from Association of Anaesthelists of GB & Ireland for the inhibitory effect of local anaesthetics on the G-Protein mediated vascular flare response to Bradykinin and substance P.

Dr M Murphy, Prof TM MacDonald (Medicine & Therapeutics) & Dr L Wei (Medicine & Therapeutics): £19,069 from Chief Scientist Office for statin prescribing in Scotland: a comparison of adherence to statin treatment between patients treated to target and patients on a fire-and-forget basis.

Dr G Rena: £135,803 from Caledonian Research Foundation for biochemistry and cellular biology of FOXO transcription factors (Personal Research Fellowship).

Dr JM Woof: £155,229 from Wellcome Trust for molecular basis of bovine and equine immunoglobulin effector function.

Prof WHI McLean & Dr FJD Smith: £33,397 from PC-Project for drug discovery for treatment of pachyonychia congenita.

Dr JM Woof, Dr D Bowen & Dr PR Crocker (School of Life Sciences): £39,238 from Leukaemia Research Fund for novel anti-CD33 antibodies for treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia and high risk myelodysplastic syndrome.

Dr R Fearns: £1,280 from Wellcome Trust for roles of the extragenic regions of respiratory syncytial virus in evading the cellular interferon response (vacation scholarship: Ms Marta Dozynkiewicz).

Prof WHI McLean: £384,478 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Assessment for developing therapies to control wound healing in epidermolysis bullosa.

Prof JH Cummings, Prof GT Macfarlane, Dr EAM Magee: £32,194 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 - extension.

Dr R Fearns: £214 from The Royal Society for negative strand RNA viruses 2004 (conference).

Dr CN Connolly: £1,600 from The Biochemical Society for assessing the potential for peptides to modulate GABA(a) receptor transport to the cell surface (vacation studentship: Sarah Johnson).

Dr D Bowen: £30,806 from Tayside Leukaemia and Haematology Endowment Fund for clinical research nurse to support MDS clinical research infrastructure (extension).

Dr DU Baty, Prof WHI McLean & Prof EB Lane (School of Life Sciences): £14,062 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Assessment for DNA handling and mutation detection in skin fragility disorders (extension).

Philosophy

Dr JR Williams: £1,550 from Carnegie Trust for research in Paris libraries on Deleuze.

Politics

Prof A Dobson: £1,500 from British International Studies Association for conference workshop on impact of US bases in Western Europe.

Prof A Dobson: £1,992 from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for contribution towards transatlantic studies association conference 2004.

Prof A Dobson: £1,030 from Angus and Dundee Tourist Board for contribution towards transatlantic studies annual conference.

Prof A Dobson: £1,500.

Psychology

Prof TA Harley: £46,500 from Royal Society of Edinburgh for remembering the self: autobiographical memory in an ageing population (RSE/Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland Research Studentship: Ms EB Wilson).

Prof PHK Seymour: £19,160 from The Leverhulme Trust for effect of orthography on reading acquisition (emeritus fellowship)

Dr F Sani: £46,925.06 from Economic & Social Research Council for perceived group historical continuity: a cross-cultural investigation.

Dr WS Murray: £4,985 from The British Academy for does functional availability of alternative structures predict online parsing preferences?

School of Life Sciences

Prof Sir P Cohen: £421,208 from EU Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health Programme for Protein kinases - novel drug targets of post genomic era (FP6).

Dr AJ Flavell: £166,305 from EU Food Quality and Safety for Grain legumes (FP6).

Prof JJ Blow: £25,537 from Cancer Research UK for molecular analysis of a potential 'licensing checkpoint' in human cells (PhD Studentship: Ms X Ge).

School of Life Sciences: £595,540 from Wellcome Trust for molecular and cellular biology PhD programme (5 studentships).

Prof MJR Stark: £1,680 from Society for General Microbiology for SGM vacation studentship 2004 (Catherine Johnson).

Prof DMJ Lilley: £26,601 from Cancer Research UK for nucleic acid structure, folding and activity and interaction with proteins (studentship: Ms J Liu).

Prof JJ Blow: £27,381 from Cancer Research UK for mcm-associated proteins in normal and checkpointed cell division cycles (studentship: Mr G Stewart).

Prof DMJ Lilley: £26,608 from Cancer Research UK for RNA structure and protein interaction in the ribosome (studentship: Mr B Turner).

Dr IS Nathke: £234,114 from Cancer Research UK for cytoskeletal regulation by the adenomatous polyposis coli protein in colon cancer (Senior Cancer Research Fellowship).

Prof AH Fairlamb: £79,659 from Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative for high throughout screening against trypanothione reductase for new drug-like molecules.

Dr A Gardner: £138,502 from Cancer Research UK for elucidation of DNA damage checkpoint pathways by C. elegans genetics (Senior Cancer Research Fellowship).

Prof WN Hunter, Prof GJ Barton, Dr CS Bond & Prof MAJ Ferguson: £1,927,448.16 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for Structural proteomics; targeting biosynthetic pathways, pathogenesis and DNA processing.

Dr PR Crocker: £3,570,609 (UoD value £311,019) from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for glycochips-strategies for high-throughput analysis of the glycome (Joint with Universities of Edinburgh, East Anglia, Birmingham, Oxford & Imperial College).

Prof GJ Barton & Dr DMA Martin: £459,006.93 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for visualisation and analysis of biological sequences. alignments and structure.

Prof CP Downes: £1,868,355 from Medical Research Council for spatial, temporal and metabolic regulation of PI 3-kinase derived lipid signals in health and disease.

Dr DR Alessi: £125,993 from Association for International Cancer Research for regulation and function of the LKB1 tumour suppressor.

Dr KG Storey: £361,119 from Medical Research Council for control of neurogenesis onset and progression in the embryo and ES cells.

Dr EK James, Dr AR Prescott, Prof JI Sprent & Mr S Swift: £187,078.24 from NERC in search of beta-rhizobia: exploring the symbionts of Mimosa in Brazil (joint with University of York).

Prof JGW Williams: £253,025.70 from Biotechnology and Biological Research Centre for the evolution of SH2 domain: phosphotyrosine signalling: functional proteomic analysis of two novel dictyostelium SH2 domain containing proteins.

Dr IM Eggleston, Prof MJR Stark & Dr D Van Aalten: £307,468 from Wellcome Trust for structure-based design and synthesis of carbohydrate-mimetic peptides as chitinase inhibitors and potential chemotherapeutic agents.

Dr D Van Aalten: £1,129,909 from Wellcome Trust for structural biology and inhibitor design on chitin metabolism (Senior Research Fellowhip).

Prof A Lamond: £424,220 from Medical Research Council for proteomic analysis of the function of nuclear SUMO modification.

Prof C Watts: £1,495,293 from Wellcome Trust for processing proteases and the control of class II MHC peptide production and loading.

Dr IM Eggleston: £1,354 from The Nuffield Foundation for synthesis and evaluation of potential inhibitors of the glyoxylase pathway in Leishmania major (undergraduate research bursary: Ms K Armour).

Dr M Towler: £49,671 from Wellcome Trust for does the AMPK-PKB switch function in human skeletal muscle? (travelling fellowship: Dr M Towler).

Prof JJ Blow, Dr AD Donaldson & Dr T Tanaka: £21,014 from Cancer Research UK for the role and organisation of replication foci in chromosome duplication.

Prof JJ Blow: £287,428 from Cancer Research UK for analysis of proteins required for the initiation of chromosome replication.

Prof EB Lane: £128,825 from Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Assessment for investigation of fever-associated improvement in epidermolysis bullosa simplex.

Prof JJ Blow: £30,022 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2004/2005.

Prof EB Lane: £24,704 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2004/2005.

Dr AR Prescott: £1,000 from British Council for treaty of Windsor Programme 2004/05: degradation and subcellular distribution of GLUT1 in endothelial cells following oxidative stress: implications on diabetic retinopathy.

Dr AA Harper: £1,100 from Carnegie Trust for the effects of ischaemia on neuronal excitability signalling in the neonatal and adult intracardiac ganglion.

Dr R Marquez: £1,600 from The Nuffield Foundation for synthesis of the anti-malarial agent boronolide (undergraduate research bursary).

Prof WN Hunter & Dr R Marquez: £168,012.

Prof Sir P Cohen: £1,762.50.

Dr ST Safrany & Prof JJ Lambert (Pathology and Neuroscience): £25,000.

Prof Sir P Cohen: £20,563.

Social Work

Prof BM Daniel: £9,997 from Scottish Executive - Social Work Services Inspectorate for resilience: a positive framework for child care practice - children 'looked after' at home.

Surgery & Oncology

Prof AM Thompson: £302,400 from Cancer Research UK for IBIS II clinical trial. Prof AJ Munro: £50,000 from Tenovus Tayside for psychological intervention in cancer patients. Prof RJC Steele, Prof Sir DP Lane, Dr F Paulin & Prof FA Carey (Pathology & Neuroscience): £127,709.80 from Tenovus Tayside for an investigation into serum proteomics as a screening modality for colorectal neoplasia.

Dr S Brown: £5,390 from Norman Fraser Design Trust for touch-sensitive controller for surgical equipment-clamping devices.

Dr A Iqbal, Dr T Frank & Prof Sir A Cuschieri: £28,929 from The Melville Trust for the Care & Cure of Cancer for sonoelastography (ultrasound imaging to detect tissue elasticity) of breast tumours.

Dr A Iqbal: £6,318 from The Jeffrey Charitable Trust for development and evaluation of a new imaging modality for breast cancer.

Prof RJC Steele, Prof Sir A Cuschieri & Prof FA Carey (Pathology & Neuroscience): £12,614 from Chief Scientist Office for use of human reliability analysis to evaluate operative techniques for rectal cancer.

Prof Sir DP Lane: £42,241 from Cancer Research UK for annual equipment allocation 2004/2005.

Dr A Iqbal: £5,737 from The Jean Shanks Foundation for development and evaluation of new imaging modality for breast cancer.

Dr A Iqbal: £2,000 from Tay Charitable Trust for development and evaluation of new imaging modality for breast cancer.

Dr FR Imrie & Dr CJ MacEwen: £3,000 from Speed Pollock Memorial Research Trust for UK wide study of intraocular foreign bodies in association with the British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit.

Prof AM Thompson: £6,017 from James IV Association of Surgeon Inc for travelling fellowship 2005.

Dr R Abboud: £2,350.

Mr JP Martindale: £28,200.

Prof Sir A Cuschieri: £10,000.

Prof AM Thompson: £29,375.

Town & Regional Planning

Ms DM Peel: £700 from The British Academy for moving minds - remue-meninges: our urban challenge (conference grant).

Visual Research Centre

Ms JA Cumberlidge: £2,000 from Arts and Humanities Research Board for practice-led research - so what is it all about? (doctoral research training scheme).