Electronic Precinct - Nov 1997

Major Research Grants

The following is a list of some major research grants for September and October 1997

Professor G. A. J. Amaratunga and Professor W. Eccleston, £120,000 from Wolfson Foundation (electronic device materials laboratory).

Professor D. J. Bacon, £167,489 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (stochastic computer simulation of defect evolution in irridated ferritic steel).

Dr R. B. Barraclough, £34,559 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) and with Dr D. R. Sibson and Professor P. S. Rudland, £34,907 from Clatterbrid ge Cancer Research Trust (cloning and identification of mRNAs differentially expressed in breast lesions).

Professor R. P. Bentall and Mr R. C. Stevenson, £27,036 from Medical Research Council (a multidisciplinary study of management of neuroleptic medication in schizophrenia: educational and collaborative approaches).

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).

Dr R. P. Bonar-Law, £49,981 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (dinuclear metal complexes as structural components in supramolecular chemistry).

Professor A. M. Breckenridge and Dr S. A. Ward, £193,775 from Wellcome Trust (drug pharmacokinetics and parasite resistance in the chemotherapy of falciparum malaria).

Professor A. M. Breckenridge and Professor B. K. Park, £60,000 from Wellcome Trust (mechanisms in biochemical pharmacology).

Professor R. D. Burgoyne, £380,125 from Wellcome Trust (cellular and molecular physiology).

Professor D. V. Canter, £64,453 from British Academy (investigative psychology).

Dr A. J. Carnell, £31,620 from Eschenmoser Trust (oxidative enzyme mimics based on flavins and porphyrins).

Professor J. C. Cawley, £31,036 from North West Cancer Research Fund (chronic lymphoproliferative disorders).

Professor P. H. Cobbold, £108,744 from Nuffield Hospitals (Nuffield Hospitals Senior Demonstrators, 96-97).

Professor R. W. I. Cooke and Dr L. J. Abernethy, £22,888 from Medical Research Council (does clumsiness and learning disorder in VLBW survivors have an anatomical basis?)

Professor A. R. Cossins, £51,030 from Leverhulme Trust (the molecular basis of acquired thermotolerance in fish) and £51,168 from Natural Environment Research Council (environmental cold adaptation: the underlying mechanisms).

Dr R. Cosstick and Dr I. A. O'Neil, £161,440 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (2'-C-functionalised oligonucleotides: ribozymes antisense and directed evolution).

Professor J. M. Crampton, Professor A. R. Cossins and Dr B. J. Merry, £100,000 from Wolfson Foundation (the use of molecular and transgenic approaches to characterise the physiology of thermotolerance, ageing and hormone release).

Dr C. Edwards and Professor J. R. Saunders, £153,537 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (environmental biogenics using sensor-regulated genes for in situ assessment of pollutants in soil).

Professor D. A. Eisner, £20,111 from Wellcome Trust (dietary regulations of intestinal sugar transport).

Professor M. T. C. Fang and Dr M. G. Kong, £109,101 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (application of CFD techniques to arcs contaminated by wall ablation and electrode melting).

Dr J. K. Field, £20,775 from Roy Castle Cause For Hope Foundation (Liverpool Lung Project) and £25,000 from Roy Castle Cause For Hope Foundation (molecular pathogenesis of lung cancer) and with Dr J. R. Gosney, £49,500 from Roy Castle Cause For Hope Foundation (genetic pathology of bronchial epithe lium in tumour bearing lungs and its relationship to metaplasia and dysplasia).

Professor S. P. Frostick and Professor R. H. T. Edwards, £30,300 from Muscular Dystrophy Group of GB and NI (muscular dystrophy treatment).

Professor E. Gabathuler, £151,318 from Royal Society (experimental investigation of CP violation in B-Meson decays).

Dr R. M. Gaskell, £60,105 from Wellcome Trust (studies on feline herpes virus).

Dr C. F. Gilks, £35,314 from Medical Research Council (a double-blind placebo controlled trial of pneumococcal vaccine in HIV infected adults in Uganda).

Dr C. D. Green, £34,264 from North West Cancer Research Fund (the mechanism of ligand-independent activation of the oestrogen receptor and its role in oestrogen/antioestrogen responsiveness of breast cancer cells).

Professor I. Grierson and Professor C. M. Gosden, £36,473 from Wellcome Trust (tumour suppression gene expression and ocular melanoma).

Professor C. A. Hart and Professor R. W. I. Cooke, £30,010 from Meningitis Merseyside Support Group (the safety and efficacy of rBPI21 in the adjunctive treatment of paediatric patients with severe meningococcal disease).

Dr C. S. Herrington, £60,447 from North West Cancer Research Fund (numerical chromosome aberrations and tumour ploidy in ovarian neoplasia).

Professor M. J. Jackson and Dr C. I. A. Jack, £34,042 from Wellcome Trust (zinc homeostasis in elderly subjects).

Dr P. S. Kokoszka, £33,381 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (inference for models with long memory and heavy tails).

Dr R. T. Leah, £64,924 from Natural Environment Research Council (the impact of persistent contaminants on estuarine and marine ecosystems).

Mr R. A. Meegan, Professor P. E. Lloyd, Mr N. Castree and Mr M. E. Samers, £134,045 from Economic and Social Research Council (pathways to integration: tackling social exclusion on Merseyside).

Dr A. Millward, £25,000 from National Pu-Kyong University, Korea (development of a stability device to prevent the capsize of small fishing vessels).

Professor D. H. Molyneux, Professor A. E. Bianco, Dr P. A. Bates and Dr C. F. Gilks, £100,000 from Wolfson Foundation (renovation of facilities for exotic pathogen research).

Professor J. E. Mottershead and Dr D. J. Brookfield, £154,100 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (instabilities, squeal and chaos in disc brakes).

Dr R. J. Nichols, £52,759 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (investigations into the phenomenon of surface stress at well defined electrode surfaces).

Professor O. H. Petersen, Dr A. V. Tepikin and Mr D. V. Gallacher £1,302,868 from Medical Research Council (ion channels and pumps in secretory cells).

Professor J. M. Rhodes, Dr B. J. Campbell and Professor I. Grierson, £141,636 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (the effects of dietary Gal-GalNAc-binding lectins on intestinal epithelial metabolism and proliferation).

Professor S. M. Roberts, £66,621 from Wellcome Trust (design and synthesis of inhibitors of NF-Kappa B as potential anti-inflammatory and anti-viral agents).

Professor T. F. Schulz, £65,090 from North West Cancer Research Fund (identification and characterisation of HHV-8 genes involved in the development of Kaposi's sarcoma lesions) and £35,921 from North West Cancer Research Fund (variability and function of K1, a non-structural membrane protein encod ed by Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpes virus, HSHV/HHV8).

Dr S. P. Shirazi-Beechey, £35,895 from Tenovus (molecular insights into the role of dietary fibre in the prevention of cancer of the colon).

Dr R. L. Smyth, £30,000 from Cystic Fibrosis Trust (infrastructure support for Cochrane cystic fibrosis group).

Professor P. Strike and Dr K. D. Bruce, £58,780 from Leverhulme Trust (indicator bacteria in archaeological specimens, a molecular biological approach).

Mr R. Sutton and Professor O. H. Petersen, £87,435 from Royal College of Surgeons of England (disturbances in intra-cellular calcium homoeostasis in the pathogenesis of pancreatitis).

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

Dr M. White, £29,926 from North West Cancer Research Fund (molecular basis for direct intracellular signalling by bFGFs) and £39,088 from North West Cancer Research Fund (transcriptional regulation by the tumour-suppressor p53 following DNA damage).

Dr G. A. Wolff, £48,622 from Natural Environment Research Council (the benthic boundary layer of the continental slope west of Shetlands).

Dr J. H. A. Youngson, £30,000 from Roy Castle Cause For Hope Foundation (the descriptive and analytical epidemiology of lung cancer).