Research Grants

Total research income this month: £8,465,960.90

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

Applied Computing

Dr N Hine & Prof JL Arnott: £7,127 from EU ALFA Programme for REXNET - Remote experimentation network yielding an inter-university peer-to-peer e-service.

Dr GPH Gregor: £2,820 from JISC The Network Centre for accessibility review of curriculum on line.

Dr N Alm & Dr GPH Gregor: £1,495.66 from EU Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (QOL) for friendly rest room.

Dr GWA Rowe: £78,580

Mr GI McAllister & Dr SJ McKenna: £37,725

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr DW Brighty: £69,630 from Association for International Cancer Research for inhibition of human T cell leukaemia virus envelope function and cell-to-cell infection using conformation-specific monoclonal antibodies (Studentship).

Dr PR Clarke: £160,103 from Association for International Cancer Research for regulation of caspase-9 during the cell division cycle.

Dr D Crouch: £6,500 from Anonymous Trust for ERM (ezin, radixin, moesin) proteins in hyperproliferative skin disorders.

Dr PR Clarke: £10,000 from Anonymous Trust for regulation of apoptosis during cancer cell migration.

Dr MS Highley & Prof E Rankin: £7,200 from Anonymous Trust for hypomagnesaemia after platinum based chemotherapy.

Dr DW Brighty: £8,512 from Leukaemia Research Fund for identification and characterisation of novel peptide inhibitors of human T-cell Leukaemia virus infection (extension).

Civil Engineering

Dr MF Bransby & Prof MCR Davies: £895,435 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for biological and engineering impacts of climate change on slopes (BIONICS) (joint with other institutions).

Dr P Dong: £560,607 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for a risk-based framework for predicting long-term beach evolution (joint with Universities of Plymouth & Cambridge).

Prof RMW Horner: £1,276,306 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for metrics, models and toolkits for whole life sustainable urban development (joint with Loughborough University, Glasgow Caledonian University & St Andrews University).

Dr F Gunzel & Prof MCR Davies: £3,525

Dr F Gunzel & Prof MCR Davies: £2,937.50

Dr F Gunzel & Prof MCR Davies: £1,762.50

Dr F Gunzel & Prof MCR Davies: £1,762.50

Prof RMW Horner: £30,400

Community Health Sciences

Dr B Guthrie: £8,550 from Scottish Executive for developing patient survey use in Scottish diabetes managed clinical networks.

Prof T Fahey & Dr B Kidd (Pathology & Neuroscience): £15,886 from Chief Scientist Office for community methadone prescribing: cohort study of individual patient data in a geographically-defined population and development of a managed clinical network.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Prof NB Pitts: £609,485 from Chief Scientist Office for dental health services research unit 2005/2006.

Dental School

Dr AM Schor & Prof S Schor: £57,592 from Cancer Research Technology for MSF: a novel and commercially competitive therapeutic target.

Economics

Prof MJ Chalkley: £32,383

Electronic Engineering & Physics

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £502.31

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £334.88

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £470

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £893

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £1,607.40

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £390.69

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £1,004.63

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £558.13

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £669.75

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £2,612.03

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £3,125.50

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £1,557.17

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £558.13

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £781.38

Prof AG Fitzgerald: £334.88

Dr DM Goldie: £705

Education

Mr D Gavine: £5,000 from Scottish Executive for evaluation of video enhanced reflection of formative assessment.

English

Prof PJ Kitson: £14,013 from Arts & Humanties Research Council for romanticism, race and the colonial encounter, 1770-1840.

Dr K Williams: £1,100 from Carnegie Trust for research at British Film Institute, London towards monography: ‘Realist of the Fantastic: H G Wells, Modernity and the Movies'.

Fine Art

Mr MN Dalziel & Ms L Scullion: £3,995

Geography

Dr JS Rowan: 18,536 from Scotland & Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER) for development of a decision-making framework for managing alterations to the morphology of lakes.

Prof A Findlay & Dr DS Houston: £55,528.93 from Economic & Social Research Council for Scottish demography: Scottish migration to and return from SE England (joint with Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde).

Prof RW Duck: £1,680

Prof RW Duck: £28,500

History

Dr W Kenefick: £14,013 from Arts & Humanities Research Council for the rise and decline of the Scottish Radical Tradition from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Maternal & Child Health Sciences

Prof R Hume & Dr DKM Koh: £9,500 from Anonymous Trust for metabolic and hormonal responses to hypoglycaemia in infants born by elective caesarean section.

Prof DJ Murphy: £9,188 from Anonymous Trust for randomised controlled trial of oxytocin 5iu versus oxytocin 5iu and 30iu infusion for the control of blood loss at elective caesarean section – a feasibility study.

Dr SC Land: £6,000 from Anonymous Trust for the cellular and molecular basis for the rise in pneumonia-susceptibility with age.

Dr SK Inglis: £9,683 from Anonymous Trust for development of a method to detect movement of Na+ channels into lung cell membranes.

Prof A Burchell: £7,300 from Anonymous Trust for glucose metabolism and success rates in in-vitro fertilisation.

Mathematics

Prof GA Watson: £900 from The Royal Society for South African Society for numerical and applied mathematics conference 2005 (SANUM2005).

Medicine & Therapeutics

Prof AD Morris, Prof P Davey, Prof TM MacDonald, Prof FM Sullivan (Community Health Sciences), Dr B Williams (Community Health Sciences) & Prof CR Wolf (Biomedical Research Centre): £276,006 from Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for genetic health in the 21st century (21CGH) - (Strategic Research Development Grant (SRDG)) (Joint with Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow & St Andrews).

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Dr A Hill, Dr F Khan & Dr M McLaren: £89,913 from Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland for cardiovascular function and intake of soft fruit: effects of qualitative and quantitative variation in berry antioxidant status (joint with SCRI).

Dr B Galarraga: £8,702 from Anonymous Trust for effect of folic acid supplementation on endothelial function of rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with methotrexate.

Dr JR Petrie, Dr GP Leese, Prof DR Alessi (School of Life Sciences) & Dr CD Sutherland (Pathology & Neuroscience): £133,605 from Diabetes UK for is insulin inactivation of GSK3 required for nitric oxide mediated vascular relaxation?

Dr M Barnes: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for dose response and therapeutic ration of fluticasone propionate nasal spray in allergic rhinitis.

Prof BJ Lipworth: £10,000 from Anonymous Trust for a proof of concept study to evaluate the dose response for the systematic benefit risk ration of inhaled fluticasone propionate in COPD.

Dr CM Green: £4,906 from Anonymous Trust for an investigation into corticosteroid allergy in asthma patients.

Dr GP Leese: £9,206 from Anonymous Trust for morbidity and mortality in patients with treated thyroid disease.

Medicine & Therapeutics

Dr A Choy: £9,945 from Anonymous Trust for an evaluation of the anti-arrhythmic effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids by T-Wave alternans in patients with ventricular arrhythmia.

Prof CC Lang: £9,750 from Anonymous Trust for endothelial function and cardiac output during and after right ventricular pacing.

Dr SR McEwan & Prof JJF Belch: £8,334 from Scottish Heart and Arterial disease Rick Prevention for ten-year follow-up of the SHARP Cardiovascular Population Study.

Prof JJF Belch, Prof AS Anderson, Prof AD Struthers, Prof H Tuntall-Pedoe & Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre): £6,500 from Unamed Source to Development of Cardiovascular Unit.

Dr RC Roberts: £7,667.2

Prof BJ Lipworth: £120,000

Dr RC Roberts: £26,369

Prof TM MacDonald: £43,005

Dr JR Petrie, Prof AD Morris &

Dr CD Sutherland: £47,000

Dr JF Dillon: £1,575.24

Dr JF Dillon: £1,575.24

Nursing & Midwifery

Ms J Harris: £12,000 from NHS Education of Scotland for out of hours unscheduled care: the development and mapping of educational provision against service needs at a local, regional and national level.

Pathology & Neuroscience

Dr E Dow, Dr DU Baty & Dr F Jenkinson: £12,000 from Chief Scientist Office for improving the sensitivity and specificity of faecal tests for colorectal cancer screening (joint with University of Aberdeen).

Dr CN Connolly: £14,700 from The Royal Society for a novel approach to manipulate GABAergic inhibition in the brain using ‘pharmacological chaperones’.

Dr A Baldacchino, Ms CL Hodges & Dr B Kidd: £14,012 from East of Scotland Primary Care Research Network (EASTREN) for evaluation of the East Central Scotland Addiction Services Managed Care Network (ECSAS MCN).

Prof WHI McLean: £6,000 from Anonymous Trust for RNAi therapy for inherited skin disease.

Dr J Harvey: £9,600 from Anonymous Trust for characterisation of leptin-induced long term depression of hippocampal excitatory synaptic transmission.

Dr CN Connolly: £9,700 from Anonymous Trust for the effect of epilepsy mutations on GABA A receptor biogenesis and localisation.

Dr R Fearns & Dr SM Wilson (Maternal & Child Health Sciences): £5,800 from Anonymous Trust for the physiological basis of respiratory syncytial virus-induced lung disease.

Dr NM Kernohan: £5,460 from Anonymous Trust for correlation of cytogenetic abnormalities with expression regulators of apoptosis and cell cycle in follicular lymphoma.

Dr BG Frenguelli: £9,368 from Anonymous Trust for improving brain recovery after stroke.

Dr JM Woof: £9,500 from Anonymous Trust for anti-sialyl Tn numan lgA antibodies as novel therapeutic reagents for cancer.

Mr MS Eljamel & Dr H Moseley (Medicine & Therapeutics): £9,700 from Anonymous Trust for development of an optical fluorescence tumour detection system for use in the management of invasive intracranial tumours.

Dr JE Steeman: £10,000 from Anonymous Trust for establishment of cell culture models of spinal muscular atrophy.

Prof JH Cummings: £6,750 from Anonymous Trust for dietary inorganic sulphur intake and disease activity in ulcerative colitis.

Prof MLJ Ashford: £8,000 from Anonymous Trust for role of IRS-2 in pancreatic beta cell function.

Prof K Matthews: £8,820 from Anonymous Trust for magnetic resonance spectroscopy to describe regional neurochemical function in chronic depression and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) treated by ablative neurosurgery.

Prof DJK Balfour: £5,100 from Anonymous Trust for stress and agitation in dementia.

Mr AJ Cassidy: £9,550 from Anonymous Trust for mutation analysis in colorectal cancer: relation to clinical parameters and socioeconomic status.

Dr PE Ross: £7,650 from Anonymous Trust for glycosylation changes in oesophageal adenocarcinoma.

Prof MWH Coughtrie & Mrs S Sharp: £8,250 from Anonymous Trust for bioactivation of dietary carcinogens by sulfation - potential role in the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal cancer.

Dr GA Lyles: £4,900 from Anonymous Trust for synergistic interactions between cytokines and other immunoactivators of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in vascular smooth muscle cells.

Dr B Kidd, Dr A Baldacchino & Prof T Fahey (Community Health Sciences Division): £15,000 from East of Scotland Primary Care Research Network (EASTREN) for Tayside methadone cohort study.

Dr DR Coghill: £77,903

Prof MWH Coughtrie & Prof AM Thompson (Surgery & Oncology): £15,000

Philosophy

Dr TDJ Chappell: £14,013 from Arts & Humanities Research Council for value ethics: a normative ethical theory.

Dr RE Jones, Ms P Whatley (Archive, Records Management and Museum Services) & Dr M Wynne-Davies (English): £1,000 from Carnegie Trust for women, culture and society: a seminar programme at the Universities of Dundee and Groningen (pilot study).

Dr TDJ Chappell & Dr RE Jones: £5,000 from The Scots Philosophical Club for Scots Philosophical Club visiting fellows - academic exchange.

Dr JR Williams: £75

Politics

Dr N MacQueen: £1,100 from Carnegie Trust for an evaluation of the United Nations Peace-Building Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS).

Psychology

Dr RPG Van Gompel: £6,536 from The British Academy for pronoun resolution: competition or race?

School of Applied Linguistic & Language Studies

Dr D Catterick: £587 from British Council for Socrates Travel Grant.

School of Life Sciences

Prof DG Hardie: £8,255,000 from EU Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health Programme for health benefits of exercise: identification of genes and signalling pathways involved in effects of exercise on insulin resistance, obesity and the metabolic syndrome – EXGENESIS (FP6) (Joint with other Universities).

Prof GJ Barton: £2,420,000 from Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for Scottish bioinformatics research network (strategic research development grant) (joint with Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow).

Prof P Schaap: £517,829 from Wellcome Trust for regulation of life cycle transitions by cAMP signalling.

Dr N Morrice, Prof A Lamond & Prof PR Crocker: £1,556,270.91 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council for radical solutions for researching the proteome (RAZOR) (joint with University of Glasgow & University of Edinburgh).

Prof JJ Blow & Dr JR Swedlow: £151,620 from Cancer Research UK for functional proteomics of genome integrity.

Prof CJ Weijer: £185,716 from Medical Research Council for the cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling cell movement during primitive streak formation.

Dr R Marquez: £111,054 from Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for development of an efficient approach for the synthesis of LL-Z1640-2 and related resorcyclic lactones.

Dr ND Perkins: £125,661 from Association for International Cancer Research for regulation of cell proliferation by the p52 NF-kB subunit.

Dr PM Taylor & Dr HS Hundal: £39,700 from Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council for identification of novel proteins interacting with the SNAT2 amino acid transporter (Underwood Fellowship).

Dr JM Lucocq: £7,260 from Anonymous Trust for role of lowe syndrome protein in neuronal process/dendritic spine formation.

Dr M Maroto: £58,900 from Muscular Dystrophy Association for role of notch signalling in patterning/differentiation of early muscle precursors.

Prof C Tickle: £57,243.54 from The Royal Society for pattern formation invertebrate embryos with special reference to limbs (Foulerton Research Professorship).

Dr JM Lucocq: £4,300

Dr K Baar: £53,476

Dr D Van Aalten: £70,000.

Social Work

Prof N Baldwin & Prof BM Daniel: £19,660 from Scottish Executive for integrated assessment and information sharing: evaluation of pilot projects.

Surgery & Oncology

Prof Sir DP Lane & Dr S Lain: £140,400 from EU Life Sciences Genomics & Biotechnology for Health Programme for manipulating tumour suppression: a key to improve cancer treatment (ACTIVE p53) (FP6).

Dr LI McLellan & Dr C Henderson (Biomedical Research Centre): £126,697 from Association for International Cancer Research for peroxiredoxins in carcinogenesis and drug-resistance: functional significance of the protein: protein interactions of the thiol-specific antioxidant, PRDX6.