Electronic Precinct - October 1998

Major Research Grants

The following is a list of some major research grants for June, July and August 1998.

Professor R. D. Burgoyne, £322,057 from Wellcome Trust (cellular and molecular physiology).

Professor R. D. Burgoyne, £306,677 from Wellcome Trust (molecular mechanisms of calcium-regulated exocytosis in neurosection).

Professor R. D. Burgoyne and Dr A. Morgan, £25,193 from Wellcome Trust (cellular and molecular physiology).

Dr M. J. Clague, £29,306 from Wellcome Trust (cellular and molecular physiology).

Dr J. W. Coleman, £208,803 from Wellcome Trust (role of nitric oxide and T cell-dependent factors in regulation of mast cell degranulation and cytokine gene expression).

Professor J. A. Dearing and Dr D. J. Siddle, £104,660 from Leverhulme Trust (historic impacts of land use and climate on hydrology in a pre-alpine landscape).

Dr R. Dimaline, £20,800 from Wellcome Trust (cellular and molecular physiology).

Professor W. Eccleston, £94,953 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (polymer TFTs for VLSI neural and display circuits).

Dr S.W. Edwards and Dr M. White, £91,797 from Wellcome Trust (functional analysis of the role of Mc1-1 in neutrophil apoptosis and survival).

Professor M. P. Escudier, £78,220 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (development and application of a torquemeter for annual flow of non-Newtonian liquids).

Professor M. T. C. Fang and Professor J. Lucas, £25,311 from Lee Foundation, States of Malaya (microwave generated plasma).

Dr J. K. Field, £43,912 from North West Cancer Research Fund (isolation and identification of a novel tumour suppressor gene involved in Barrett's oesophageal cancer).

Dr J. K. Field, Dr J. H. A. Youngson and Professor P. M.A. Calverley, £37,969 from Roy Castle Cause for Hope Foundation (Liverpool Lung Project- Aintree Clinic).

Professor E. Gabathuler, £147,267 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (an investigation of high Q2 electroweak and QCD physics in e+-p interactions at HERA).

Dr T. L. Gilchrist, £57,774 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (size and composition of semiconductor nanostructures using scanning transmission electron microscopy).

Professor I. Grierson, £109,500 from Foundation for the Prevention of Blindness (Research Fellow).

Dr S. Hall and Professor W. Eccleston, £45,698 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (low power architecture, circuits and technologies).

Dr S. J. Higgins, £77,672 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (polymer TFTs for VLSI, neural and display circuits).

Dr P. S. Hiscott and Professor I. Grierson, £41,857 from Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust (prediction of outcome after retinal detachment surgery).

Professor M. J. Jackson and Dr F. McArdle, £163,392 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (ageing-related muscle dysfunction: a failure of adaption to oxidative stress?)

Dr M. G. Kong and Profesor G. R. Jones, £168,985 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (failure mechanisms in DC power capacitors).

Professor M. A. Lennon, £68,653 from Borrow Dental Milk Foundation (milk fluoridation project).

Professor D. A. Lloyd, £31,732 from Royal College of Surgeons of England (neural crest cell response to endothelin-3 in a marine model of Hirschsprung disease).

Dr C. A. Lucas and Dr R. J. Nichols, £158,160 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (nanoscale aspects of the surface electrochemistry of nickel).

Dr R. N. McGrath, £70,760 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (relaxation and reconstruction of modified metal and polar-oxide surfaces using surface x-ray diffraction).

Dr B. J. Merry, £179,512 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (mitochondrial respiration kinetics and superoxide generation in calorie restricted rats exhibiting retarded ageing).

Dr A. Milosevic and Professor M. A. Lennon, £40,522 from Wellcome Trust (epidemiological studies of tooth wear in children resident in North West England).

Dr D. J. S. Montagnes, £25,185 from Natural Environment Research Council (questioning paradigms concerning diatom production).

Dr A. Morgan, £232,856 from Medical Research Council (functional effects of phosphorylation of key proteins on regulated exocytosis).

Professor K. L. Morgan, £268,465 from Wellcome Trust (an epidemiological study of foot and mouth disease in farmed and wild ruminants in Cameroon, Central Africa.)

Professor D. J. Schiffrin, £120,003 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (bipolar electrochemically induced electrochemiluminescence for capillary electrophoresis).

Dr J. Simpson, £23,882 from Levehulme Trust (Freud, Faust and the Ursprache).

Mr J Slavin, Dr S E Christmas and Professor J P Neoptolemos, £133,238 from Wellcome Trust (Chemokines: defining their role in pancreatitis, novel possibilities for therapeutic intervention).

Dr A Steiner, £43,679 from Engineering and Phsical Sciences Research Council (multianionic phosphazenates- a novel approach to hybrid materials).

Professor W G Stirling, £216,730 from Engineering and Phsical Sciences Research Council (disorder in quantum systems).

Dr S B Squire and Dr C F Gilks, £24,798 from Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association, Netherlands (Malawi NTP support).

Dr M C Thomson, £75,302 from Meningitis Research Foundation (forecasting meningitis epidemics in Africa).

Dr G S Vince, £25,866 from North West Cancer Research Fund (trophoblast- a model for tumour cell invasion).

Dr J Wheeler and Dr D J Prior, £131,765 from Natural Environment Research Council (linking experimental to natural rock deformation: quantitive microstructural analysis of quartz and feldspar).

Dr M White, £433,398 from Medical Research Council (multi-parameter imaging of signalling and gene expression in mammalian cells).

Dr J G Williamson, £28,161 from Leverhulme Trust (The state of play CD-ROM-piano music).

Dr J Xiao and Professor E G J Derouane, £139,743 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (catalytic chemistry of higher olefins in supercritical carbon dioxide).

Dr j H A Youngson and Dr J K Field, £81,752 from Roy Castle Caouse For Hope Foundation (epidemiology and molecular oncology of lung cancer- IT strategy).

Dr M Zuzel, Dr R D G Theakston and Dr A S Kamiguti-Theakson, £116,234 from Wellcome Trust (modulation of cellular reactions by jararhagin and disintergrins).