Research Grants

Total research income this month: £12,366,201

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

Accountancy

Mr DJ Collison, Mr J Ferguson, Prof DM Power & Ms L Stevenson: £7,000 from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland for the role of the textbook and other teaching materials in the construction of accounting knowledge: a stakeholder approach.

Applied Computing

Prof AF Newell: £114,737 from Alzheimer’s Association for digital television agents as prompts for daily living.

Dr SM Parkes: £10,408.

Dr GWA Rowe: £67,464.

Dr SM Parkes & Mr I Martin: £13,724

Dr GPH Gregor: £2,820.

Dr GPH Gregor & Mr D Sloan: £5,875

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr PR Clarke: £229,651.72 from Biotechnology and Biological Research Council for functional analysis of the regulation of multiprotein complexes formed during the cell division cycle by the guanine nucleotide exchange factor RCC1.

Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy

Dr C Roberts: £5,000.

Civil Engineering

Dr J Kobine: £111,037 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for predicting fluid flow behaviour through static and rotating needle valves.

Community Health Sciences

Dr FLR Williams, Mr SA Ogston, Prof R Hume (Maternal & Child Health Sciences) & Dr P Willatts (Psychology): £200,000 from Chief Scientist Office for levels of neonatal thyroid hormones in preterm infants and neurodevelopmental outcome at 5.5 years (joint with Yorkhill NHS Trust, North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, Wishaw General Hospital & University of Edinburgh).

Prof FM Sullivan, Dr A Doney (Medicine & Therapeutics) & Prof TM MacDonald (Medicine & Therapeutics): £11,380 from East of Scotland Primary Care Research Network (EASTREN) for a pilot study to determine the feasibility and most appropriate methods of obtaining large scale consent for anonymised genetic research in drug efficacy and safety based on the potential use of "spare" blood in Tayside.

Dr PT Donnan, Mr D McLernon, Prof FM Sullivan & Dr JF Dillon (Medicine & Therapeutics): £162,941.

Prof FM Sullivan & Mr TE Love: £17,000.

Mrs G Hoskins, Dr PT Donnan & Dr RG Neville (NHS Tayside): £542,137.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Dr J Clarkson, Dr CJ Tilley, Ms L Young, Dr DL Bonetti & Prof MJ Chalkley (Economics): £46,076.01 from Economic & Social Research Council for public services: creating a clinical economic and psychological research resource.

Design

Prof G Follett & Prof WA Nixon: £442,306 from Arts & Humanities Research Board for past, present and future craft practice: exploration of the interrelations between skill, intent and culture.

Prof T Inns: £105,821.

Electronic Engineering & Physics

Prof WA Gillespie: £159,000 from Council for the laboratory of the Research Councils for linear collider (ABD) programme: work package 2.2: longitudinal bunch length measurement.

Dr D Rodley & Dr MJ Rose: £32,712 from EU Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme for advanced displays research integration action (ADRIA) - (FP6).

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £681.50.

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £904.75.

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £669.75.

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £2,009.25.

Education

Mr N Taylor: £4,736 from Careers Scotland for evaluation of the Scottish small grants scheme on behalf of Careers Scotland and the Scottish Executive Education Department.

English

Dr JA Goldman: £178,102 from Arts & Humanities Research Board for the St Andrews/Dundee research edition of the writings of Virginia Woolf (joint with University of St Andrews).

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing

Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing: £135,451 from Medical Research Council for doctoral training grant 2004.

Faculty of Life Sciences

Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences: £106,426 from Medical Research Council for doctoral training grant 2004.

Fine Art

Mr E McArthur, Ms E Shemilt & Mr A Watson: £312,327 from Arts & Humanities Research Board for The Demarco Archives: accessing a 40-year dialogue between Richard Demarco and the European Avant-Garde.

Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £6,000.

Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £1,100.

Geography

Dr BW Brock, Dr MEJ Cutler & Dr M Kirkbride: £27,055.92 from Natural Environment Research Council for impact of debris covers on mountain glacier melt rates using satellite and meteorological measurements.

Dr BW Brock: £3,500 from British Council for understanding and predicting the impact of climate change on the mountain environment.

Dr O Bragg: £5,048.

Dr AR Black: £1,175.

Dr AR Black, Dr O Bragg, Prof RW Duck & Dr JS Rowan: £27,050.

Maternal & Child Health Sciences

Dr SM Wilson & Prof RE Olver: £457,307 from Wellcome Trust for hormonal and environmental control of lung ion transport processes.

Dr A Jovanovic: £196,156 from Medical Research Council for the involvement of M-LDH physically associated with sarcolemmal KATP channel subunits in cardioprotection.

Prof R Hume & Dr FLR Williams (Community Health Sciences): £73,500 from Cerebra for levels of neonatal thyroid hormones in preterm infants and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 5.5 years.

Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £62,040.

Dr G Mires: £111,420.55.

Dr G Mires: £3,008.

Mathematics

Prof MAJ Chaplain: £29,329 from National Institute of Health (USA) for development of a virtual tumour (joint with Massachusetts General Hospital).

Mechanical Engineering

Prof EW Abel: £8,427.

Medicine & Therapeutics

Dr MD Witham, Dr ND Gillespie, Prof MET McMurdo & Prof AD Struthers: £177,945 from Chief Scientist Office for does vitamin D supplementation improve function and quality of life in older heart failure patients - a double blind, placebo controlled trial.

Prof MET McMurdo, Prof AD Struthers & Dr MD Witham: £16,071 from Chief Scientist Office for double blind placebo controlled trial of the effect of perindopril on functional capacity in older people (extension).

Prof AS Anderson & Prof RJC Steele (Surgery & Oncology): £16,119 from World Cancer Research Fund for the impact of a diet and lifestyle education intervention (on awareness of cancer prevention actions) in adults participating in a colo-rectal cancer screening programme (Feasibility Study).

Dr JR Petrie & Dr J Coleman: £1,400 from Diabetes UK (Angus branch) for vascular mechanisms of arterial relaxation in insulin resistant states.

Prof H Tunstall-Pedoe, Mr J Gibson & Mr J Connaghan: £24,808 from Scottish Executive Health Department for does adding social deprivation to the Framingham risk-factor score increase the accuracy of cardiovascular risk assessment?

Dr SH Ibbotson: £10,940.

Prof BJ Lipworth: £250,000.

Prof BJ Lipworth: £250,000.

Dr WL Wrieden & Prof AS Anderson: £24,920.

Prof AD Morris & Dr PT Donnan (Community Health Sciences): £89,996.

Nursing & Midwifery

Prof M Henry & Dr M Thermessl-Huber: £20,519 from Chief Scientist Office for a pilot study of a utilisation focused evaluation of the factors influencing hand hygiene in nursing staff within NHS Scotland.

Dr MC Jones: £1,000,000 from NHS Education for Scotland for the nursing, midwifery and allied health professions research training scheme (joint with University of Stirling, nursing & midwifery & allied health professions research unit, Robert Gordon University & University of Aberdeen).

Pathology & Neuroscience

Dr JE Sleeman: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for establishment of cell culture models for spinal muscular atrophy.

Dr G Rena: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for effect of phosphorylation-dependent regulation of FOXO transcription factors on two key indicators of neurodegeneration: protein aggregation and oxidant-induced calcium dysregulation.

Dr BG Frenguelli: £8,400 from Tenovus Tayside for modulation of seizure activity by adenosine: receptor interactions and signalling mechanisms.

Prof WHI McLean & Prof EB Lane (School of Life Sciences): £1,142,862 from Dystrophic epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association for RNA Therapeutics for EB Simplex.

Dr G Rena: £15,000 from The Royal Society for Measurement of the effects of cellular signalling on polyglutamine protein aggregation rates.

Dr KE Robertson: £5,000 from Pathological Society of Great Britain & Ireland for digital microscopy of a means of accurately documenting and archiving the origin of tissue cores in tissue microarrays.

Dr D Belelli & Prof JJ Lambert: £96,522 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council & Industrial Partner for investigation of inhibitory mechanisms involved in anxiety using GABA transgenic mice and selective anxiolytic drugs (industrial CASE studentship 2004/2005).

Dr AJ Robertson: £599,000 from Scottish Executive Health Department for the PATHALBA project: provision of a digitised virtual pathology service for Scotland.

Prof JJ Lambert & Dr D Belelli: £64,712.

Prof JJ Lambert & Dr D Belelli: £145,251.

Philosophy

Dr JR Willams: £800 from the British Academy for Australian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Annual Conference 2005: The Politics of Being.

Dr TDJ Chappell: £500 from Carnegie Trust for reading Plato's Theaetetus.

Politics

Prof A Dobson: £400 from The British Academy for politics and ethics: an interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary issues.

Psychology

Dr MH Fischer: £7,012 from The British Academy for psychophysical and neuroimaging studies of motor imagery for others.

Dr E Nagy: £7,480 from The Nuffield Foundation for the earliest sex-related differences in human interpersonal communication.

Dr N Hopkins: £4,640 from British Council for refresher course in social psychological theory and research methods.

Dr MH Fischer: £68,707 from EU Human Resources and Mobility for RTN: LAB (research and training network: language and brain).

School of Applied Linguistic & Language Studies

Dr D Catterick: £21,470 from EU Leonardo Programme for vocational English on-line course and course evaluation systems VENOCES.

School of Life Sciences

Dr JK Dale: £243,086 from Medical Research Council for analysis of primitive streak stem cells and the role of Notch in their axial mesoderm derivatives.

Dr R Marquez: £77,900 from The Cunningham Trust for synthesis of new anti-inflammatory agents.

Prof DMJ Lilley: £282,451 from Cancer Research UK for structure of nucleic acids and recognition by proteins.

Prof MJR Stark: £191,581.55 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council for the role of saccharomyces cerevisiae Bir1p protein kinase complex required for execution of mitosis.

Prof CJ Weijer: £301,705.20 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council for signalling to the actin cytoskeleton during chemotaxis and phagocytosis in Dictyostelium: The roles of Plen and the Dock180/Elmo proteins.

Prof EB Lane: £326,746 from Cancer Research UK for expression and function of intermediate filaments in epithelial differentiation.

Dr ND Perkins: £43,871 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of NF-kB transcriptional activity by the ARF tumour suppressor.

Dr R Marquez: £44,070 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council for design and synthesis of Novel TAK1 inhibitors as molecular probes (research committee studentship: Mr MN Robertson).

Dr D Van Aalten: £177,120 from EU Life Sciences, Genomics & Biotechnology for Health Programme for the fungal cell-wall as a target of antifungal therapies: FUNGWALL (FP6).

Prof CP Downes: £68,417 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council & Industrial Partner for antagonism of PI 3-kinase signalling via the regulated function of the PTEN tumour suppressor protein (BBSRC Case Studentship: Ms Sarah Ross).

Prof MAJ Ferguson: £404,250 from EU European Regional Development Fund for Centre for Interdisciplinary Research ERDF phase 3, equipment funding.

Prof MAJ Ferguson: £2,000,000 from The Wolfson Foundation for computational chemistry, high-throughput screening and medicinal chemistry facilities in the new Centre for Interdisciplinary Research.

Dr DR Alessi, Dr R Marquez & Dr D Van Aalten: £48,386.

Dr ND Perkins: £38,375.

Prof PR Crocker: £24,675.

Social Work

Prof J Hogg: £5,000 from Mental Health Foundation for what leads carers to identify changes in emotional and mental well-being in young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and how do they respond? (joint with King’s College, London) (extension).

Surgery & Oncology

Dr BA Spruce: £29,129

Town & Regional Planning

Mr J McCarthy: £1,200 from Carnegie Trust for reconciling Tourism and Amenity: the development of cruise passenger terminals in historic port cities.

Dr R Skea: £752.