Electronic Precinct - August 1998

Major research grants

Dr P. Allport and Professor P. S. L. Booth, £71,858 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (development of radiation hard silicon microstrips/pixels for use at the LHC).

Professor A. E. Bianco, £70,672 from Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, USA, (vaccine antigen delivery using sequential DNA and recombinant adenouirus immunisation in animal models of onchocerciasis).

Dr R. A. Black, Dr R. L. Williams and Dr T. V. How, £28,725 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (a constant-stress rheometer for the dynamic characterisation and testing of biological tissues and their analogues).

Professor J. G. Bligh, £45,206 from Nuffield Trust (assessment of undergraduate medical education: a case of re-inventing the wheel).

Dr J. M. Bradbury, £54,980 from Wellcome Trust (incidence of mycoplasma gallisepticum infection in free-flying birds in and around poultry houses in comparison to that occurring in poultry flocks).

Dr J. K. Field, £110,785 from Roy Castle Cause For Hope Foundation (molecular genetic studies of individuals recruited into the Liverpool Lung Project).

Professor E. Gabathuler, £132,965 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (study of neutron-rich nuclei far from the valley of nuclear stability using radioactive-ion beams).

Professor P. J. Goodhew, Dr T. J. Bullough, Dr G. J. Tatlock and Professor N. V. Richardson, £36,125 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (secondary ion mass spectroscopy for chemical microscopy).

Professor J. W. Hill, £23,189 from Cancer Research Campaign (risk and resilience in children with cancer and their families).

Dr C. V. Howard, £22,000 from F.B. Baily Thomas, Charitable Trust (pregnancy in diabetic women in the Mersey Region).

Professor A. Kroeger, £33,389 from Ministry of Health, Columbia, (national programme for the prevention and control of Chagas disease and infant heart diseases).

Professor M. E. Molyneux, £150,745 from Wellcome Trust (mechanisms and patterns of endemic falciparum malaria).

Professor J. E. Mottershead, £148,183 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (model structure determination).

Professor J. P. Neoptolemos, £39,596 from North West Cancer Research Fund (the molecular pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer through the study of hereditary pancreatitis and familial pancreatic cancer).

Dr W. O'Neill, £149,602 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (laser based micro-engineering process developments).

Professor O. H. Petersen, £360,608 from Medical Research Council (ion channels and pumps in secretory cells).

Ms A. J. Renouf, further grant of £24,378 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (a knowledge-rich tool for the analysis and prediction of innovation in the lexicon).

Dr N. Roberts and Professor G. H. Whitehouse, £28,439 from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association (case control study of proton spectroscopy and hippocampal volume measurement in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome).

Professor P. S. Rudland, £32,600 from Cancer and Polio Research Fund Ltd (signalling and molecular events underlying cyclin D1mRNA stability).

Professor T. F. Schulz, Mr G. R. Simpson and Ms P. M. Cook, £31,151 from Cancer Research Campaign (role of latent HHV8 genes in the pathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma).

Professor D. J. Schiffrin, £143,949 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (chemical nanofabrication of self-assembled structures and new materials).

Professor A. J. Trees, £55,491 from World Health Organisation, Switzerland, (chemoprophylaxis against onchocerciasis).

Dr C. A. Walsh, Dr J. A. Gallagher and Dr W. D. Fraser, £110,018 from Action Research (investigation of isoform-specific effects of PTHrP [1-173] in human osteoblasts).

Professor P. Weightman, £116,748 from Daresbury Laboratory (developing and operating the Beamline and its two Stations [4.1 and 4.2] at the Daresbury Laboratory).