Electronic Precinct - July 1999

Research Grants

Research grants for April and May 1999.

Dr R. B. Barraclough, £68,334 from North West Cancer Research Fund (identification of intracellular interactions which mediate the induction of metastasis by the metastasis-inducing calcium binding protein, S100A4 [p9Ka]).

Professor J. K. Field, Dr J. H. A. Youngson and Professor P. M. A. Calverley, £40,300 from Roy Castle Cause For Hope Foundation (Liverpool Lung Project - Aintree Clinic).

Professor I. Grierson and Dr L. Webster, £125,502 from Research into Ageing (stimulation of trabecular meshwork cell proliferation in the eye disease glaucoma).

Dr A. R. Jones, £56,379 from Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, USA (reduction of defect content in ODS alloy).

Professor T. F. Schulz, £70,204 from Jefferiss Research Trust (Jefferiss studentship).

Professor A. J. M. Watson, £36,329 from North West Cancer Research Fund (gene therapy mediated anti-tumour immune stimulation: recombinant adenoviruses encoding herpes simplex Type 1 tymidine kinase and Flt3 ligand).

Dr W. M. Watkins and Dr P. A. Winstanley, £150,296 from Wellcome Trust (a study of the utility of combining oral artesunate with oral pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine [PSD] in delaying the emergence and spread of PSD-resistant P.falciparum in Kenya).

Dr J. Xiao, £63,057 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (asymmetric catalysis in supercritical carbon dioxide).

Dr L. Yu and Professor J. M. Rhodes, £35,699 from North West Cancer Research Fund (studies to characterise the intracellular ligands for the anti-proliferative mushroom lectin in colon cancer cells). Professor J. G. Bligh, £20,000 from P. H. Holt Charitable Trust (a study of the impact of increased community-based teaching on general practitioners and students).

Professor A. R. Cossins, £137,954 from Natural Environment Research Council (seasonal rhythms in red cell adrenoresponsiveness in Teleost fish).

Dr M. J. Fisher and Professor H. H. Rees, £69,045 from Leverhulme Trust (modification of polypeptides by sterol in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans).

Dr Y. Huang and Professor M. T. C. Fang, £54,070 from Leverhulme Trust (a novel free-space, time-domain technique for dielectric properties measurements).

Professor J. Shaw and Dr J. A. Share, £32,430 from Leverhulme Trust (developing a new microwave archaeointensity technique into a palaeointensity technique for use on lavas).

Dr W. M. Watkins and Dr S. A. Ward, £258,690 from Wellcome Trust (understanding the mode of action of antifolate combinations and the mechanism of Fansidar resistance in P.falciparum).