Electronic Precinct - March 1996

Major Research Grants

Professor D J Bacon, £ 263,364 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (simulation of defects in zirconium and other metals using bond-order potentials).

Dr M G Barry, £ 50,000 from Verex Laboratories Inc, USA, (donation for research).

Professor A E Bianco, £ 570,857 from Wellcome Trust (the biology of secretion in filarial nematodes).

Dr R Burrows and Mr R G Tickell, £ 63,015 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Morison wave force coefficients for applications to random seas).

Professor J C Cawley, £ 57,354 from Leukaemia Research Fund (nature and origin of quantitative and qualitative platelet abnormalities in leukaemia).

Professor P H Cobbold, £ 658,705 from Wellcome Trust (study of single cell signalling).

Professor P H Cobbold and Dr J A Smith, £ 350,063 from British Heart Foundation (peptides that protect cardiomyocytes from anoxia and reoxygenation).

Professor J K Davies, £ 263,300 from Leverhulme Trust (Athens, Delphi and documentary historiography).

Dr J J Downes, £ 92,580 from Economic and Social Research Council (implicit memory: development of a language processing model).

Dr J A Green and Dr D M Tidd, £ 55,339 from North West Cancer Research Fund (antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic agents against ovarian cancer cell lines).

Professor B T Heaton and Dr J A Iggo, £ 187,460 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (update of NMR console to allow the in situ characterisation of catalytic systems and carbonyl clusters).

Professor C E Johnson and Dr M F Thomas, £ 112,308 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Mossbauer measurements of tin in float glass).

Professor G R Jones, Dr P C Russel and Dr J W Spencer, £ 124,586 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (an intelligent optical current transformer based on chromatic techniques).

Dr S Marshall-Clarke, £ 55,118 from North West Cancer Research Fund (analysis of defects of cell death signalling in mutant lymphoma cell lines).

Professor C Michael, £ 151,299 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (perturbative and non perturbative QCD phenomenology on the lattice).

Professor C Michael and Dr D R T Jones, £ 261,957 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (theoretical particle physics).

Dr I A O'Neil, £ 119,800 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Homochiral amine oxides as powerful conformational controlling elements in small molecules).

Dr I A O'Neil, £ 86,457 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (the synthesis of novel polymers containing amine oxides to control macromolecular conformation).

Dr S M Rees, £ 87,722 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (parameter spaces of rational maps).

Dr S Taylor, Professor J H Leck and Dr K I Nuttall, £ 79,438 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (micromachined quadrupole mass spectrometer).

Dr D M Tidd, £ 93,170 from Cancer Research Campaign (development of oncogene and mutated tumour suppressor gene-targeted antisense oligonucleotide analogues as potential cancer chemotherapeutic agents).

Professor B A Wood, £ 156,260 from Leverhulme Trust (late Neogene palaeobiogeography and palaecoecology of Old World, large bodied omnivores).

Professor R I Woods, £ 59,730 from Leverhulme Trust (the demography of Victorian England and Wales).

Mr J M Williams, Dr S C Wray and Dr C R Vaillant, £ 50,000 from BSAVA Clinical Studies Trust Fund Ltd (an investigation of the contractility, innervation and control of intracellular Ca2+ and pH in dog breeds with high and low susceptibility to gastric- dilation volvulus).

Professor Q H Wu,£ 87,148 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (optimization of large-scale systems using automata based simulated evolution mechanisms).