Major Research Grants

The following is a list of some major research grants from April to June 1996.

Professor G A J Amaratunga and Dr C J Keily, £144,804 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (electronic doping of amorphous carbon thin films).

Professor R D Burgoyne, £359,180 from Wellcome Trust (Wellcome prize studentships in cellular and molecular physiology) and £65,197 from Wellcome Trust (functional study of proteins in Ca2+-regulated exocytosis using patch-clamp capacitance measurement).

Professor A M Breckenridge, £111,053 from Wellcome Trust (laboratory refurbishment).

Professor P H Cobbold, £95,124 from Wellcome Trust (study of single cell signalling).

Professor E G J Derouane, Professor G J Hutchings and Professor B T Heaton, £150,000 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (controlled atmosphere and in-situ MAS NMR investigations of catalytic and solid state processes).

Professor R H T Edwards, £60,618 from Muscular Dystrophy Group of GB and NI (muscular dystrophy treatment research programme).

Dr P A Garner, £479,671 from Overseas Development Administration (effective health care in developing countries).

Dr B M Gibbs, Mr J Lewis and Professor D J Oldham, £127,029 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (predicting environmental noise from construction and open site industrial activities).

Professor P J Goodhew, Dr C J Keily Dr G J Tatlock, £97,020 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (developments in ultra-high-resolution analytical electron microscopy).

Dr C S Herrington, Dr I W McDicken and Professor C M Gosden, £50,933 from Wellbeing (karyotypic analysis of cervical neoplasia: chromosome aberrations and human papillomavirus infection).

Professor J Lucas and Dr J S Smith £166,476 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (IMI - on-line sensors for welding and joining process monitoring - LIVEMAN).

Professor M E Molyneux, £301,299 from Wellcome Trust (plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1: analysis of gene transcription and protein expression in parasitised erythrocytes from Malawian children).

Professor H H Rees and Dr P C Turner, £73,180 from Leverhulme Trust (a novel regulatory moulting hormone-activating enzyme in insect pests).

Professor T F Schulz, £60,989 from Leukaemia Research Fund (functional domains and antigenic regions in the HTLV-1 envelope protein).

Dr R L Smyth, Professor C A Hart and Dr D Ashby, £66,848 from Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (pathophysiology of respiratory syncytial virus in infancy: a study of disease severity, strain variation and cytokine production).

Professor W G Stirling, £342,722 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (X-ray magnetic and high resolution diffraction UK collaborating research group at ESRF).

Professor A J Trees, £137,901 from World Health Organisation, Switzerland, (onchocerca ochengi infections in cattle as a macrofilaricidal drug screen).

Professor P J Twin, £140,506 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (an experimental study of CP violation in B decays).

Dr R G Williams, £79,200 from University of Edinburgh (climatic variability of Mediterranean paleo-circulation - CLIVAMP).

Professor S T Williams, £87,163 from Natural Environment Research Council (characterisation of typical lake water bacteria).

Professor B A Wood, £53,728 from Wellcome Trust (an ecological context for hominid forelimb form and function), and £88,917 from Wellcome Trust (early hominid homoplasy: identification and implications).