Research Grants

Total research income this month: £5,171,192.5

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

Applied Computing

Dr SJ McKenna & Dr MF Bransby (Civil Engineering): £516,457 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for computer visualisation and modelling of plant morphogenesis: a dynamic toolkit for cell expansion and fluorescent cell reporters in roots (joint with Scottish Crop Research Institute & Cambridge University).

Dr SM Parkes: £25,381.

Dr GPH Gregor & Mr D Sloan: £2,585.

Architecture

Ms F Stevenson: £5,700 from Scottish Ecological Design Association for green detailing guides volume 1; design for deconstruction.

Biomedical Research Centre

Prof JD Hayes: £141,625 from Association for International Cancer Research for inhibition of the negative regulation of antioxidant response element-driven genes as a novel cancer chemopreventative strategy (joint with Universities of Hiroshima & Tsukuba, Japan).

Dr J Wuarin: £67,320 from Association for International Cancer Research for maintaining genome ploidy: regulation of replication origin-bound mitotic cyclin-dependent kinase in fission yeast.

Dr LI McLellan: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for preliminary analysis of the role of a newly discovered antioxidant protein in influencing life or death decisions in human cancer cells.

Dr D Crouch: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for distribution and function of ERM proteins in skin.

Dr D Crouch: £2,380 from Psoriasis Association for distribution and regulation of ERM proteins in psoriasis: a pilot study.

Dr Nurkiyanova: £1,000 from The Royal Society for translational research in HIV AIDS and AIDS related cancers 2004: International Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology.

Dr DW Brightly: £5,284 from Tenovus Tayside for investigating the leukaemia promoting properties of the human T cell leukaemia virus tax protein.

Dr PR Clarke: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for a study of the survival of breast cancer cells and the implications for therapy.

Dr M Paine & Dr I Kapelioukh: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for determining if a human molecule developed in the laboratory can convert non-toxic chemicals into toxic drugs that will selectively kill malignant tumours.

Dr D Meek: £40,044 from Cancer Research UK for regulation of p53 induction through multisite phosphorylation of the acidic domain of Mdm2.

Dr A Conlin: £5,000 from Tayside Oncology Research Fund for significance and underlying mechanisms of K-ras mutations in colorectal neoplasia.

Dr PR Clarke: £63,870 from Medical Research Council and Industrial Partner for regulation of capase-9 by protein phosphorylation (industrial collaborative studentship).

Civil Engineering

Dr CQ Li: £34,800 from The Royal Academy of Engineering for development of risk assessment models for corrosion-affected reinforced concrete infrastructure.

Prof PA Davies: £1,160 from The Royal Society for 4th international symposium on environmental hydraulics/14th congress of Asia & Pacific division of international association of hydraulic engineering and research.

Prof MCR Davies: £3,500 from Natural Environment Research Council for laboratory simulation of solifluction processes associated with one-sided and two-sided active-layer freezing (joint with universities of Cardiff and Sussex).

Community Health Sciences

Dr E Mitchell, Prof T Fahey: £9,906 from East of Scotland Primary Care Research Network (EASTREN) for general practitioners' responses to patients who present with potential cancer symptoms.

Dental School

Dr M Macluskey & Dr R Nesbitt: £8,420 from Tenous Tayside for an investigation of the formation of new blood and lymphatic vessels in head and neck cancers.

Electronic Engineering & Physics

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £893.

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £1,227.88

English

Dr R Watt: £1,000 from Carnegie Trust for edition of complete works of John Ford.

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing

Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing: £62,500 from Wellcome Trust for value in people award scheme (2004/2005).

Faculty of Life Sciences

Dean of Faculty of Life Sciences: £187,500 from Wellcome Trust for value in people award scheme (2004/2005).

Fine Art

Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £3,000 from Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust for commission for New Work to be installed in the Atrium Space of the New Freeman Hospital, Newcastle (Phase 1).

Prof G Fisher: £4,200.

Geography

Dr M Kirkbride: £2,000 from Royal Society of Edinburgh for 2004 CRF/RSE european visiting research fellowship.

Dr AR Black: £2,703 from Scottish Executive Environment Group for measurement indicators for sustainable flood management objectives.

Prof RW Duck: £1,739.

History

Dr W Kenefick: £950 from Carnegie Trust for the Scots and the radical and socialist Africa c 1900 to 1922.

Maternal & Child Health Sciences

Prof R Hume & Dr FLR Williams (Community Health Sciences Division): £20,455 from Tenovus Tayside for developmental follow up of children at five and a half years who were preterm and had thyroid hormone measured in the neonatal period.

Dr A Jovanovic: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for strategy based on vitamin B3 to protect the heart against myocardial infarction.

Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £8,568.

Dr A Mehta: £33,511.

Medicine & Therapeutics

Prof CC Lang, Dr A Choy, Prof AD Struthers, Dr FV Fuller-Pace (Pathology & Neuroscience) & Dr D Meek (Medicine & Therapeutics): £9,318 from Tenovus Tayside for development of a unique experimental model of abnormal blood vessel function in heart failure.

Dr D Patterson, Dr F Khan & Prof JJF Belch: £5,000 from Tenovus Tayside for an assessment of the effects of a high salt diet on blood vessel function (in the skin, forearm and heart) and blood pressure in healthy men, when assessed directly using high precision techniques.

Mr J Coleman, Dr JR Petrie, Prof DR Alessi (School of Life Sciences), Prof MLJ Ashford (Pathology & Neuroscience) & Dr CD Sutherland (Pathology & Neuroscience): £8,571 from Tenovus Tayside for understanding blood vessel complications of diabetes: an experimental approach.

Dr G Kennedy, Prof JJF Belch, Dr A Hill, Dr F Khan, Dr VA Spence & Dr S Greene (Maternal & Child Health Sciences): £9,990.50 from Tenovus Tayside for investigating chronic inflammation associated with increased risk factors for cardiovascular disease in children from Chronic fatigue syndrome.

Dr DJR Cuthbertson & Dr J Coleman: £9,975 from Tenovus Tayside for establishing a novel method for studying the cause of defective insulin action in muscle in patients with Type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Dr RS MacWalter, Mrs J Morris (NHS Tayside) & Mr SA Ogston (Community Health Sciences Division): £19,143 from Chief Scientist Office for Bilateral simultaneous upper limb task training in acute stroke (extension).

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Dr F Khan, Dr M McLaren & Dr S Greene (Maternal & Child Health Sciences): £4,800 from Chief Scientist Office for changing lifestyle in children - all change: can this reduce cardiovascular risk? (joint with University of St Andrews) (supplement).

Mrs RJG Price, Dr MD Witham & Prof MET McMurdo: £6,956 from NHS Tayside for defining the nutritional status and dietary intake of older, frail heart failure patients - a pilot study.

Prof AD Morris & Mr DIR Boyle: £126,889 from Scottish Executive for Scottish Care Initiative Diabetes Collaboration (extension).

Prof TM MacDonald: £15,451.25.

Prof AD Morris, Dr GP Leese & Dr JR Petrie: £23,133.

Prof BJ Lipworth: £20,000.

Dr JR Petrie, Prof AD Morris & Dr GP Leese: £41,566.

Dr JR Petrie, Prof AD Morris & Dr GP Leese: £26,302.

Dr JR Petrie, Prof AD Morris & Dr GP Leese: £26,302.

Pathology & Neuroscience

Dr CN Connolly: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for identification of subunit-specific sites of interactions within the alpha subunits of GABA(A) receptors.

Dr J Harvey: £364,103 from Wellcome Trust for mechanisms underlying dynamic alterations in dendritic morphology induced by leptin and its potential role in hippocampal synaptic plasticity.

Dr GA McLeod & Prof DJ Murphy: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for does the infusion of syntocinon for four hours after caesarean section reduce blood loss.

Dr D Bowen: £10,408 from EU FP6 & LIFE for strengthen and develop scientific and technological excellence in research & therapy of leukemia by integration of the leading national leukemia networks and their interdisciplinary partner groups in Europe (LeukemiaNet).

Prof MWH Coughtrie & Prof B Burchell: £91,305 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Industrial Partner for characterisation of drug conjugating enzymes in human tissue (industrial CASE Studentship: Ms Zoe Riches).

Politics

Dr S Isherwood: £800 from Carnegie Trust for Truman's proposed internationalisation of the waterways and its impact on Angio-American relations.

Prof A Dobson: £740 from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for publication of special themed issue of journal of transatlantic studies on NATO.

Principal's Office

Mrs C Pope, Prof CP Downes (School of Life Sciences) & Prof G Follett (Design): £30,000 from Wellcome Trust for engaging science people award: "inspiration and discovery: engaging with life sciences through life arts".

Psychology

Dr C Scheepers: £1,800 from British Council for alliance: Franco-British Partnership Programme 2005.

Dr P Willatts, Prof JS Forsyth (Maternal & Child Health Sciences) & Dr PE Ross (Pathology & Neuroscience): £188,200.

Research & Innovation Services

Mr J Houston: £40,000.

Mr J Houston: 5,500.

School of Life Sciences

Dr M Stavridis: £141,471 from Medical Research Council for signal transduction mechanisms governing fate choice or neural stem cells (Career Development Fellowship).

Dr H Wackerage: £7,371 from Tenovus Tayside for stretch-regulated genes in skeletal muscle: identifying regulators of skeletal muscle growth.

Dr T Tanaka: £81,478 from Cancer Research UK for molecular mechanisms for tension-dependent stabilisation of chromosome bi-orientation.

Prof EB Lane & Dr DR Goudie (Pathology & Neuroscience): £47,086 from Cancer Research UK for identification and characterisation of the gene for multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma.

Dr FB Eddy: £694 from The Royal Society for nitric oxide: comparative aspects of respiratory and cardiovascular homeostasis (conference grant).

Dr KG Storey: £16,732 from Medical Research Council for equipment supplement to grant no G9900177.

Prof JJ Blow: £11,669 from Cancer Research UK for Dundee Cancer Research UK co-operative centre.

Prof DMJ Lilley: £35,602 from Cancer Research UK for PgC equipment pool - confocal microscope upgrade.

Prof JJ Blow & Dr JR Swedlow: £26,374 from Cancer Research UK for proteomic identification of novel cell cycle regulated chromatin and chromosome-associated proteins.

Prof GM Gadd: £471,189 from Natural Environment Research Council for geochemical and microbial controls of decomposition and dispersion of depleted uranium in the environment (joint with University of Manchester).

Prof MAJ Ferguson & Prof Sir P Cohen: £1,000,000 from EU European Regional Development Fund for Centre for Interdisciplinary Research.

Dr D Van Aalten & Prof DR Alessi: £48,378 from Tenovus Tayside for chemical & biological characterisation of enzymes LKB1 and MARK that have recently been shown to have roles in cancer.

Prof DMJ Lilley: £6,881 from Cancer Research UK for nucleic acid structure, folding and activity, and interaction with proteins (studentship: Ms J Lui).

Dr K Baar: £19,095.

Prof A Lamond: £14,000.

Social Work

Prof BM Daniel: £20,000

Surgery & Oncology

Dr IA Zealley, Dr C Mowat (Medicine & Therapeutics) & Mr SA Ogston (Community Health Sciences Division): £30,404 from Chief Scientist Office for MRI of small bowel in Crohn's disease: Evaluation of a novel orally administered hyperosmolar bowel-distending agent.

Prof Sir DP Lane: £556,304 from Cancer Research UK for exploiting tumour suppressor gene pathways for therapy.

Dr S Bray & Dr F Paulin (Biomedical Research Centre): £8,576 from Tenovus Tayside for improving the quality of surgical specimens for tissue banking and research.

Prof AM Thompson: £2,340 from British Council for entente cordiale cancer research bursary.

Prof Sir DP Lane: £6,093 from Cancer Research UK for discovering novel non-genotoxic activators of the p53 response (studentship - Ms R Berkson).

Mr JP Martindale: £117,500.

Prof AM Thompson: £35,196.

Town & Regional Planning

Prof MG Lloyd & Ms DM Peel: £10,000 from The Daiwa Angio-Japanese Foundation for professional and grass-roots exchange - community planning: finding innovative ways forward.

Dr WM Edgar: £25,828.

Wider Access Study Centre

Dr JRD Blicharski: £10,000 from The Sutton Trust for Dundee Access Scheme.