Research Grants

Grants and contracts awarded 10 January 2006 - 07 March 2006.

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

Applied Computing

Dr GPH Gregor & Miss L Gibson: £4,085.

Dr JM Hughes & Dr DR Peiris: £3,000.

Architecture

Dr L Holm & Dr NR Fyfe (Geography): £9,950 from Arts and Humanities Research Council for exploring the digital city: space, culture, politics.

Ms F Stevenson (joint with University of St Andrews): £12,350.

Biomedical Research Centre

Dr DW Brighty: £10,000 from Tenovus Tayside for investigating the immunological response to viruses that cause leukaemia and immunodeficiency: liquid nitrogen storage for biohazardous samples and reagents.

Professor PR Clarke: £1,060 from The Royal Society for 2005 Biennial Nucleocytoplasmic Transport Meeting: Moleculars, Mechanisms and New Frontiers (Conference Grant).

Dr D Crouch: £4,950 from Tenovus Tayside for study of ERM proteins in wound healing and cell migration.

Dr SM Keyse: £5,652 from Cancer Research UK for MPU Stress Response Lab (Supplement).

Dr CJ Marek & Dr G Smith: £9,800 from Tenovus Tayside for investigation if the novel transcription factor NRF3 regulates the effects of dietary chemopreventative agents in colorectal tumours.

Professor E Rankin: £27,970.

Professor E Rankin: £51,464.

Centre for Clinical Innovations

Professor NB Pitts: £30,000.

Civil Engineering

Professor RK Dhir, Dr MR Jones & Dr MJ McCarthy: £51,500 from Department of Trade and Industry for ASR testing on recycled aggregates - guidance on alkali limits and reactivity.

Professor RK Dhir, Dr MR Jones, Dr MD Newlands & Dr A Whyte: £346,982 from European Regional Development Fund and Industrial Partners for the Centre for the Advancement of SME's in the concrete construction industry.

Professor RK Dhir & Dr MD Newlands: £160,194 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Partner for adding value to recycling of construction aggregates in cold bituminous mixes for highway use (knowledge transfer partnership).

Professor RK Dhir & Dr KA Paine: £112,514 from Department of Trade and Industry and Industrial Partner for research to process construction and demolition wastes and create their use as recycled aggregates (Knowledge Transfer Partnership).

Professor RK Dhir & Dr KA Paine: £60,000 from British Cement Association and Industrial Partners for design data for low heat and very low heat special cements: stage 3.

Dr MR Jones, Professor RK Dhir & Dr A McCarthy: £54,500 from Department of Trade and Industry for study of recycled and secondary aggregates in foamed concrete.

Community Health Sciences Division

Dr K Steven, Mrs G Hoskins & Dr B Williams: £5,720 from East of Scotland Primary Care Research Network (EASTREN) for helping asthma patients to achieve their goals: a pilot randomised controlled trial.

Professor FM Sullivan, Dr PT Donnan & Dr J Clarkson (Dental Health Services Research Unit) (joint with Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh): £95,184.

Dental Health Services Research Unit

Dr C Longbottom & Professor NB Pitts (joint with University of Glasgow): £17,535.

Professor NB Pitts: £11,076.

Professor NB Pitts: £345,711.

Design

Mr H Van Koten & Dr L Holm (Architecture): £10,000 from Arts and Humanities Research Council for theory into design/design into theory: the role of theory in creative practice.

Education

Professor EL Leo: £10,000.

Professor KJ Topping: £22,522.40.

Electronic Engineering and Physics

Professor AG Fitzgerald: £190.

English

Professor PJ Kitson: £2,632 from The British Academy for romantic representations of Tartary and Circassia 1780-1830.

Fine Art

Ms MK Modeen: £6,500.

Geography

Dr JS Rowan: £1,508 from Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER) for lake habitat survey phase 2 development (WFD4.2) participation in CEN Environmental Standards Workshop.

History

Dr M Frame: £1,300 from the Carnegie Trust for the Professions and the Russian Civil War - Research in Library of Congress.

Professor JD Tomlinson: £700 from the Carnegie Trust for archival research in the National Archives, Kew on constructing the balance of payments problem in post-war Britain.

Dr MJ Van Ittersum: £400 from The British Academy for American Historical Association 120th annual conference 2006 (Overseas conference grant).

Law

Ms AP Ross-Robertson & Professor C Reid: £87,213 from Arts and Humanities Research Council for the implementation of European Community environmental law in Scotland post-devolution.

Mathematics

Dr ARA Anderson: £95,221.30 from National Institute of Health (USA) for multiscale mathematical modelling of cancer invasion - year 2 (joint with Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, USA).

Medicine and Therapeutics

Dr B Galarraga, Professor JJF Belch, Dr A Hill, Dr G Kennedy, Dr F Khan, Dr T Pullar & Mr SA Ogston (Community Health Sciences Division) : £9,900 from Tenovus Tayside for effect of folic acid supplementation and allopurinol on endothelial function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with methotrexate.

Professor AD Morris, Professor TM MacDonald, Dr CNA Palmer (Biomedical Research Centre), Professor FM Sullivan (Community Health Sciences Division) & Professor CR Wolf (Biomedical Research Centre): £4,384,001 from Chief Scientist Office for genetics and healthcare initiative: The Scottish Family Health Study (joint with Universities of Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and NHS National Health Services Scotland Information Services).

Professor H Tunstall-Pedoe & Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing (Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing): £27,661 from Scottish Executive for cardiovascular risk assessment and risk scoring incorporating social deprivation.

Dr A Choy: £29,350.08.

Professor BJ Lipworth: £60,000.

Professor TM MacDonald: £44,500.

Dr RC Roberts: £9,321.

Dr WL Wrieden (joint with Aberdeen and Glasgow Caledonian Universities): £3,599.

Nursing and Midwifery

Dr VA Entwistle (joint with University of Aberdeen): £3,267.

Pathology and Neuroscience

Professor MWH Coughtrie: £8,718 from Tenovus Tayside for prediction of adverse drug reactions involving the drug conjugating enzymes sulfotransferases and UDP-Glucuronosyltransferases.

Dr FV Fuller-Pace: £140,368 from Breast Cancer Campaign for investigation of estrogen receptor alpha co-activation by p68 and its role in breast cancer (joint with University College London).

Dr I Kamal, Mr D Kellock (Surgery & Oncology) & Mr G Thomson (Surgery & Oncology): £9,400 from Tenovus Tayside for efficient immunohistochemical studies on cases of breast and colorectum using novel tissue array technology.

Professor JA Peters & Professor JJ Lambert: £66,825 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Industrial Partner for a structure function study on the large intracellular cytoplasmic domain of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (BBSRC CASE Studentship - Mr Matthew Livesey).

Professor MLJ Ashford: £4,000.

Professor JJ Lambert & Dr D Belelli: £69,789.

Professor GT Macfarlane: £50,000.

Psychology

Dr E Nagy: £7,120 from The British Academy for origins of our sociality: newborn infants' sensitivity to the "still face" situation.

School of Life Sciences

Professor DR Alessi: £13,962 from the Wellcome Trust for analysis of the WNK-signalling pathway (Studentship - Ms F H Rafiqi).

Dr JSC Arthur: £20,354 from the Wellcome Trust for the role of Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases in the Regulation of micro RNA (miRNA) Gene Transcription and miRNA Dependent Gene Expression (Studentship - Mr C Hunter).

Professor GJ Barton: £128,678 from EU Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health Programme for ENFIN - an Experimental Network for Functional Integration.

Professor JJ Blow: £12,020 from Cancer Research UK for Dundee Cancer Research UK Co-operative Centre.

Professor DA Cantrell: £840,673 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for chemical genetic approaches to identifying protein kinase substrates (joint with Imperial College and University of Oxford).

Professor MAJ Ferguson & Professor GJ Barton: £908,624 from Medical Research Council for functional glycomics of the African sleeping sickness parasite trypanosoma brucei (programme grant).

Professor IH Gilbert: £250,000 from Medical Research Council for the use of transporters to selectively deliver agents to trypanosomes (joint with University of Glasgow).

Professor R Hay: £52,101 from Cancer Research UK for the role of SUMO proteases in regulating the composition of Promyolocytic Leukaemia associated nuclear bodies.

Dr SF Hubbard: £80,700 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Industrial Partner for population genetics and sex determination in farmland sawflies (CASE Studentship - Miss A Gillies).

Dr HS Hundal: £64,893 from Biotechnology and Biological Research Council and Industrial Partner for serine palmitoyl transferase (SPT) and its role in fatty acid-induced insulin resistance in muscle (CASE Studentship - Miss ML Watson).

Professor A Lamond: £123,174 from EU Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health Programme for EURASNET (Alternative Splicing Network of Excellence).

Professor DMJ Lilley: £281,613 from Cancer Research UK for the Cancer Research UK Nucleic Acid Structure Research Group.

Dr S Rocha: £1,000 from The Royal Society for hypoxia and development, physiology and disease (conference grant).

Dr T Tanaka: £587,478 from The Human Frontier Science Program for building and testing mechanistic models for chromosome segregation (joint with European Molecular Biology Lab, Heidelberg and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, California).

Professor Sir P Cohen: £32,000.

Professor IH Gilbert & Dr IM Eggleston: £45,012.

Professor A Lamond: £25,000.

Social Work

Professor J Hogg, Professor BM Daniel & Dr BA Gillies: £80,000 from Scottish Executive Health Department for the development of a methodology for a national multidisciplinary audit of adult protection practice in Scotland.

Ms P McCulloch: £14,246.

Surgery & Oncology

Mr SM Shimi: £44,888 from Ninewells Cancer Campaign for hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in gastric cancer (clinical trial).

Mr SM Shimi: £30,000 from The Leng Charitable Trust for hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in gastric cancer (clinical trial).

Dr BA Spruce: £178,328.

Television and Imaging

Mr L Cox & Ms P Spence: £10,000.

Town and Regional Planning

Dr WM Edgar: £101,155 from European Commission for Measurement of Homelessness at EU Level.