Electronic Precinct - February 1999

Major Reserach Grants

Research grants for September, October and November 1998.

Dr R. A. Black, Dr J. A. Hunt and Dr T. V. How, £161,234 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (a dynamic co-culture model of the blood vessel wall for use in vascular research).

Professor R. Burrows, 117,445 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (efficient techniques for risk assessment of space frame platforms exposed to random wave and current loading).

Professor J. M. Crampton, £83,027 from Wellcome Trust (model studies to determine whether transgenic haematophagous insects can usefully deliver immunogenic parasite proteins).

Professor E. Gabathuler, Professor J. B. Dainton and Professor P. S. L. Booth, £4,328,900 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (particle physics grant: 1 October 1998 to 30 September 2002).

Dr M. J. Gage and Professor G. A. Parker, £89,432 from Natural Environment Research Council (sperm competition and sperm form and function in fishes).

Professor W. R. Lee and Professor C. J. Gaskell, £37,806 from Wellcome Trust (the development of veterinary education in UK universities in the twentieth century).

Professor H. H. Rees and Dr M. White, £103,307 from Natural Environment Research Council (regulation of biosynthesis of the hormone, methyl farnesoate, in relation to development and oocyte production in decapod crustaceans: effects of environmental change).

Dr N. B. Roberts, £30,233 from Mersey Regional Association for Kidney Research (investigations into new phosphate binders and the role of silicon as orthosilicic acid in reducing the absorption and accumulation of aluminium in patients in end-stage renal failure).

Dr J. L. Sproston and Dr E. W. Williams, £163,191 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (electrorheological fluids in squeeze flow).

Professor A. J. Trees and Professor A. E. Bianco, £116,868 from Edna Clark McConnell Foundation, USA (a vaccination trial using selected recombinant antigens to induce protection in cattle against Onchocerca ochengi field challenge).

Professor H. M. Warenius, £36,692 from Cancer and Polio Research Fund Ltd (molecular biological studies of G1 and G2 cyclin-dependent kinases in human cancers).

Dr R. L. Williams and Dr J. A. Hunt, £256,212 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (the influence of controlled surface chemical modification on the cellular response to biomaterials).

Mr M. Batterbury, £20,000 from International Glaucoma Association (modulating wound healing after glaucoma drainage surgery).

Professor A. E. Bianco, ú153,658 from Wellcome Trust (biology of the Y chromosome in the filarial parasite, Brugia Malayi).

Dr R. Corcoran and Dr R. M. Latto, £23,538 from Wellcome Trust (identifying the cognitive basis of social inference difficulties in schizophrenia).

Dr R. H. Crompton and Dr M. M. Gunther, £163,848 from Natural Environment Research Council (quadrupedalism, climbing and bipedalism: mechanical adaptation of great ape locomotion in the Miocene).

Dr C. Edwards, Professor D. A. Ritchie and Professor J. R. Saunders, £166,435 from Natural Environment Research Council (molecular ecology, in relation to activity, of methane cycling bacteria in a defined hypereutrophic lake).

Dr C. D. Green, £103,944 from Association for International Cancer Research (detection of functional differences between oestrogen receptors alpha and beta and their possible roles in tissue- and tumour- specific responses to antioestrogen therapy).

Professor I.. Grierson and Dr R. L. Williams, £165,907 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (synthesis and evaluation of a smart drug-carrying vitreous substitute).

Professor C. A. Hart, £33,411 from Johanne Holly Meningitis Fund (pathogenesis and treatment of meningococcal disease).

Dr T. V. How and Professor J. P. Neoptolemos, £34,732 from Royal College of Surgeons (Surgical Research Fellowship).

Professor J. L. Hurst, £36,612 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (implications of the behaviour of rodents for their population dynamics, control as pests and welfare in the laboratory).

Professor R. S. Jones, £67,500 from Home of Rest for Horses (residency in equine anaesthesia).

Mr M. R. Kebbell, £38,488 from Economic and Social Research Council (witnesses with learning disabilities in court).

Professor J. Lucas and Dr J. S. Smith, £132,031 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (sensor systems for visualisation of high pressure welding arcs and their workpieces).

Professor B. E. H. Maden, £125,151 from Wellcome Trust (pseudouridine in human ribosomal small subunit [18S] and preribosomal RNA).

Dr J. B. Matthews, £41,200 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (role of parasite acetylocholinesterases in Dictyocaulus viviparus infection in cattle).

Professor M. E. Molyneux, £22,189 from Wellcome Trust (mechanisms and patterns of endemic falciparum malaria).

Dr T. C. K. Molyneaux, £70,184 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (improving the impact resistance of masonry walls).

Professor J. P. Neilson and Professor M. E. Molyneux, £95,571 from Wellcome Trust (vitamin A intervention trial in anaemic pregnant women in Malawi).

Professor J. P. Neoptolemos and Dr W. Greenhalf, £46,600 from Frances and Augustus Newman Foundation (identification of new genes responsible for pancreatic cancer).

Dr I. A. O'Neil, £151,107 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (small ring N-oxides in the synthesis of highly functionalised nitrogen heterocycles).

Mr C. J. Proudman, Professor G. B. Edwards and Dr N. P. French 90,000 from Home of Rest for Horses (case-control study to investigate the role of Clostridium botulinum in equine grass sickness).

Mr C. J. Proudman, £105,628 from Home of Rest for Horses(an investigation of the molecular pathogenesis of colitis in horses).

Dr S. P. Shirazi-Beechey, £124,000 from Home of Rest for Horses (molecular characterisation of digestive and absorptive functions in equine intestinal tract).

Dr A. W. M. Simpson, £66,960 from Wellcome Trust (characterisation of the cGMP inhibited calcium efflux pathway in endothelial cells).

Professor P. Strike, Dr S. J. Kemp and Professor J. R. Saunders, £31,080 from Wellcome Trust (upgrade to the ABI Automated Genotyping and Sequencing Systems at the University of Liverpool).

Professor P. Weightman and Dr S. D. Barrett, £283,698 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (development of reflection anisotropy spectroscopy).

Dr P. A. Winstanley, £109,063 from World Health Organisation, Denmark (Chloroproguanil plus dapsone as a model rapidly eliminated antifolate combination for uncomplicated falciparum malaria).

Professor A. J. Bate, £250,100 from Leverhulme Trust (The place of poetry and the case of John Clare).

Mr M. Batterbury, £24,511 from Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (investigation of the action of the lectin from the edible mushroom, agaricus bisporus, on human ocular fibroblasts in a model of wound healing relating to glaucoma drainage surgery).

Professor R. I. M. Dunbar, £66,544 from Economic and Social Research Council (Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution).

Professor G. B. Edwards and Dr D. C. Knottenbelt, £500,000 from Home of Rest for Horses (proposal to establish a diagnostic unit at the University of Liverpool's Philip Leverhulme Large Animal Hospital).

Professor B. T. Heaton, £65,485 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (a new mechanism for metal catalysed enantioselective hydrogenation).

Dr S. J. Kemp, £106,390, from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (development of methods for the indentification and selection of mapped genes, targeting a recently mapped resistance gene in chickens).

Dr D. C. Knottenbelt, £67,500 from Home of Rest for Horses (residency in equine studies).

Professor S. M. Roberts, £123,278 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (preparation of nuclease resistant antisense oligonucleotides with potential activity against TNF-alpha).

Dr A. G. M. Scholes, £86,218 from Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (genomic instability in uveal melanoma).

Dr S. P. Shirazi-Beechey, £163,436 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (molecular insights into the role of dietary fibre and maintenance of colonic health).

Dr R. G. Williams, £134,110 from Natural Environment Research Council (dynamical regimes in the deep ocean).

Professor G. Williams, £89,951 from Medical Research Council (role of exorphins in dietary obesity).

Professor G. H. Whitehouse, £57,874 from Wigan and District Cancer Research Committee (serial quantitative studies of the functional and structural integrity of brain tissue infiltrated by and adjacent to cerebral gliomas using MRI).