Major Research Grants

The following is a list of some major research grants from October to December 1996.

Professor G. A. J. Amaratunga, £60,500 from Fuji Electric Co. Ltd., Japan, (higher performance power MOSFETS).

Dr A. H. Boussabaine, £106,359 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (a neurofuzzy system for predicting cost and duration of construction projects).

Professor J. R. M. Copeland and Ms C. F. M. McCracken, £66,392 from Medical Research Council (CFAS cognitive decline and dementia,Gwynedd centre).

Professor J. R. M. Copeland, Dr K. C. M. Wilson and Ms C. F. M. McCracken, £77,880 from Medical Research Council (CFAS cognitive decline and dementia: consolidation and exploitation of analytical potential and banking of material, Liverpool centre).

Mrs C. A. M. De Koning, £82,148 from Ford Foundation, USA, (development of women centred health care provision to address women's reproductive and sexual health needs within the Bombay Municipal Corporation).

Professor G. B. Edwards and Mr C. J. Proudman, £66,000 from Home of Rest for Horses (residency in equine gastroenterology).

Professor D. A. Eisner, £53,908 from Wellcome Trust (the role of the sarcolemmal Ca-ATPase in the control of intracellular calcium in the heart).

Dr J. K. Field, £102,464 from Roy Castle Cause for Hope Foundation (molecular and morphological assessment of individuals with a high risk of developing lung cancer).

Professor E. Gabathuler, £53,657 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (electron-proton scattering, DIS).

Dr B. M. Gibbs, £147,712 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (circulation pumps as structure-borne noise sources).

Dr D. A. Greenhalgh, £150,137 from Medical Research Council (a transgenic mouse model of multi-stage malignant melanoma).

Professor G. J. Hutchings, £200,554 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (design and optimisation of catalyst preparation and formulation using a microkinetic approach).

Professor K. A. Luker, £601,924 from Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund (Macmillan Practice Development Unit).

Dr G. A. MacHo, £103,810 from Leverhulme Trust (palaeoecological reconstruction of the Plio-Pleistocene by analysing dental microstructure in mammals).

Dr S. G. Millard and Professor J. H. Bungey, £144,652 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (residual lifetime prediction of reinforced concrete structures with corrosion damage, phase 1).

Professor M. E. Molyneux, £168,477 from Wellcome Trust (mechanisms and patterns of endemic falciparum malaria).

Dr T. C. K. Molyneaux, Dr M. J. Taylor, Dr S. G. Millard and Professor J. H. Bungey, £144,065 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (interpretation of sub-surface radar images of reinforced concrete using artificial neural networks).

Dr A. P. Moore, £88,972 from Action Research (treatment of leg spasticity in cerebral palsy with botulinum toxin A).

Professor B. K. Park, £53,908 from Wellcome Trust (the metabolism of organic endoperoxides: relevance to antimalarial action).

Dr H. J. Power, £115,089 from Wellcome Trust (the post war pharmaceutical revolution and the Third World: 1945-85).

Ms A. J. Renouf, £236,171 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (APRIL: A knowledge - rich tool for the analysis and prediction of innovation in the Lexicon).

Professor P. J. Twin, Professor J. F. Sharpey-Schafer and Dr P. J. Nolan, £2,492,665 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (nuclear physics rolling grant 1994-2000).

Dr R. G. Williams, £63,364 from Natural Environment Research Council (on the potential vorticity in the abyssal ocean).

Dr J. H. A. Youngson and Dr J. K. Field, £52,034 from Roy Castle Cause for Hope Foundation (descriptive and analytical epidemiology of lung cancer).