Research Grants Anaesthesia
Dr T Houston; Prof Sir A Cuschieri, Mr G Hanna, Dr EL Newman & Dr B Tang (Surgery): £4,675 from an anonymous trust for a pilot study on electro acupuncture analgesia in patients undergoing elective surgery.
Anatomy & Physiology
Prof CG Proud: £45,770 from Wellcome Trust for structure, function and regulation of mammalian translation initiation and elongation factors (elF-2B and eEF-2)(supplement).
Anatomy & Physiology
(Wellcome Trust Biocentre)
Dr IS Nathke: £7,000 from Tenovus Tayside for the role of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli protein in cell migration and division.
Prof C Tickle: £60,465 from British Heart Foundation for hedgehog signalling in vascular development (Studentship: MG Davey).
Prof EB Lane & Dr MM Mogensen (Anatomy & Physiology): £35,760 from Anatomical Soc. Great Britain & Ireland for cytoskeletal interactions in mammalian inner ear epithelial cells.
Prof C Tickle: £35,760 from Anatomical Soc. Great Britain & Ireland for specification of the vertebrate body plan with particular reference to limbs and mammary glands.
Biochemistry
Dr RA Quinlan & Dr AR Prescott: £397,763 from Wellcome Trust function of the small heat shock protein chaperone – intermediate filament complex in normal and diseased cells.
Dr RA Quinlan, Dr AR Prescott & Dr MJR Stark: £42,131 from Wellcome Trust for the role of the lens specific intermediate filament protein CP49, in lens cell differentiation and cataractogenesis (extension).
Prof Sir DP Lane: £60,322 from Chief Scientist Office for microinjection workstation (Equipment Initiative for Cancer).
Dr AJ Flavell: £46,573 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC and Industrial Partner for retrotransposon-based markers in wheat (CASE Studentship: Rachel Queen).
Prof Sir P Cohen: £681,279 from Wellcome Trust for Wellcome Trust Biocentre at Dundee.
Biochemistry
(Wellcome Trust Biocentre)
Dr T Owen-Hughes: £9,905 from The Royal Society for mechanisms for chromatin remodelling.
Biological Sciences
Prof HG Jones: £909 from North Atlantic Treaty Organization for low temperature induced photoinhibition in bean plants: recovery and acclimation (joint with Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)(supplement).
Prof HG Jones: £122,720 from CEC Confirming the International Role of Community Research Programme for partial root drying: a sustainable irrigation system for efficient water use with reducing fruit yield (IRRISPLIT).
Prof RA Herbert: £124,558 from CEC Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Programme for the role of microbial mats in bioremediation of hydrocarbon polluted coastal zones (MATBIOPOL).
Biomedical Research Centre
Dr LI McLellan: £3,000 from an anonymous trust for a genetic analysis of the role of glutathione and oxidative stress in ageing.
Dr D Crouch: £2,099 from an anonymous trust for possible involvement of ERM proteins in rheumatoid arthritis.
Chemistry
Dr RT Baker: £196,703 from EPSRC for combined chemical production & power generation (using a new ceramic fuel cell reactor) in collaboration with Prof JTS Irvine (University of St Andrews) and Dr M Sahibzada (University of Edinburgh).
Child Health
Dr A Jovanovic: £5,000 from Tenovus Tayside for hypoxia and pulmonary artery.
Dr SC Land: £5,000 from Tenovus Tayside for cytokine-mediated activation of the HIF-1a and NF-kB in alveolar epithelia: signalling pathways of apoptosis in oxidative stress.
Dr A Jovanovic: £46,215 from Tenovus Tayside for lack of oxygen and ion channels in lung arteries.
Dr JS Forsyth & Dr S Greene; Dr PFW Chien & Prof PW Howie (Gyno. & Obs.); Dr PT Donnan & Prof TM MacDonald (Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics); Dr AD Morris (Medicine): £99,920 from Tenovus Tayside for maternal, childhood and fetal predictors of chronic disease in adult life in Tayside.
Prof RE Olver: £47,100 from unnamed source for combating lung disease in children (equipment).
Dr SK Inglis: £4,765 from an anonymous trust for measurement of mucociliary transport in airway epithelium.
Dr SK Inglis & Dr SM Wilson: £3,136 from an anonymous trust for measurement of PH in airway submucosal gland cells.
Dr A Jovanovic: £3,708 from an anonymous trust for hypoxia and ion channels in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells.
Dr SC Land: £5,082 from an anonymous trust for the clinical potential of oxygen responsive transcription factors in the treatment of respiratory distress in the new born infant.
Dr SM Nelson & Prof R Hume: £4,750 from an anonymous trust for detection of term infants at risk of hypoglycaemic brain damage.
Dr S Mukhopadhyay; Dr J Leslie & Dr G Mires (Gyno. & Obs.): £5,000 from an anonymous trust for correlation between three dimensional ultrasound measurement of mature fetal and plethysmographic measurement of neonatal lung volumes.
Dr XKM Mwimbi, Dr R Muimo & Dr A Mehta:£4,700 from an anonymous trust for a study: Why is necleoside diphosphate kinase (NDPK) not working in cystic fibrosis? A proposal to purify a NDPK inhibitor protein.
Dr D Baines: £200 from Whitehall Trust for attendance at the Experimental Biology Conference in San Diego.
Civil Engineering
Dr TA Newson: £3,500 from The Nuffield Foundation for an experimental investigation of the sensitivity of clay soils.
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof AD Struthers & Dr N Kennedy (Medical Physics):£100,000 from Tenovus Tayside; Will spironolactone reduce cardiac deaths in mild Chronic Heart Failure?
Dr PO Lim: £6,050 from an anonymous trust for aldosterone synthae genetic polymorphisms in congenitive heart failure patients on ACE inhibitor therapy with suppressed rennin.
Prof BJ Lipworth: £4,900 from an anonymous trust for a study: Do second line asthma controller drugs exhibit in-vivo anti-inflammatory activity in addition to inhaled corticosteroids.
Dr R Kelly: £5,000 from an anonymous trust for research into left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
Dr J Todd & Prof CR Pennington (Clinical Pharm.): £5,000 from an anonymous trust for heparin as adjuvant therapy in ulcerative colitis.
Dr AM Wilson: £5,000 from an anonymous trust for an assessment of effects of blocking inflammatory mediators in exercise induced asthma using a mannitol bronchial challenge.
Dr CAJ Farquharson & Prof AD Struthers: £4,944 from an anonymous trust for a study: By what mechanisms spironolactone improve endothelial dysfunction in patients with chronic heart failure.
Dr CAJ Farquharson & Prof AD Struthers: £4,900 from an anonymous trust for a study: Does Atorvastatin improve baroreceptor dysfunction in diabetic patients?
Dental School
Dr PA Mossey: £27,048 from Wellcome Trust for interaction of maternal nutrition and folate metabolic factors in the aetiology of orofacial clefts (supplement: joint with University of Aberdeen; Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; Central Manchester Health Care Trust; Queen’s University of Belfast).
Dr GR Ogden, Dr AM Schor & Prof S Schor: £5,500 from Tayside Oncology Research Fund for prognostic value of migration stimulating factor (MSF) in oral tumours.
Prof S Schor & Dr AM Schor: £5,500 from an anonymous trust for effect of MSF on angiogenesis and wound healing in vivo: proof of concept study.
Dr NM Nuttall: £1,100 from Chief Scientist Office for a study: How do changes to (or differences between) dental care payment systems affect clinical activity and patient behaviour (Studentship: Linda Young) – supplement.
Dermatology
Prof James Ferguson, Photobiology Unit, Ninewells Hospital, jointly with DDS Medicines Research Ltd.:£660,000 to conduct investigations into drug-induced phototoxicity.
Dr I Man, Prof J Ferguson & Prof IK Crombie (Epidemiology):£5,550 from Chief Scientist Office to determine the skin cancer risk of narrow-band TL-01 UVB phototherapy.
Dr SH Ibbotson, Prof J Ferguson & Dr I Man: £3,180 from an anonymous trust for time course for development of PUVA erythema: comparison of systemic and topical delivery of psoralen.
Education & Lifelong Learning
Dr SM Watt: £2,600 from Queen’s Foundation for parish studies, SPSS database: design, creation and analysis.
Electronic Engineering & Physics
Professor AG Fitzgerald (Electronic Engineering & Physics) & Dr S Parkes (Applied Computing): £372,630 from NERC for NERC Satellite Receiving Station (1999/2000)
Geography
Prof A Findlay: £1,300 from Tear Fund for evaluation of relief planning in relation to sudden onset disasters in India.
Prof A Werritty, Dr RW Duck & Dr AR Black: £13,941 from Scottish Executive Central Research Unit for a study into climate change: Flooding occurrences review.
General Practice
Prof FM Sullivan, Mrs MC Pitkethly & Dr C Pagliari: £5,000 from Medical Research Council for trials in primary care.
Dr HT Dougall & Prof FM Sullivan; Prof TM MacDonald (Clinical Pharm. & Therapeutics); Dr AD Morris (Medicine): £4,700 from an anonymous trust for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease database.
Gynaecology & Obstetrics
Prof R Hume & Prof A Burchell; Dr MWH Coughtrie (Molecular & Cellular Pathology); Dr F Drimmie (Child Health); Dr FLR Williams (Epidemiology):£98,089 from Tenovus Tayside for catecholamines and perinatal adaptation to life between feeds.
Dr G Mires, Dr J Leslie & Prof PW Howie: £161,756 from Chief Scientist Office for a longitudinal study of circulating factors in women at risk of adverse pregnancy outcome identified by uterine arterial notching (joint with University of Nottingham).
Dr C Matthews & Prof A Burchell: £5,067 from an anonymous trust for earlier and better diagnosis of development and genetic metabolic disorders.
History
Dr EA Foyster: £250 from Carnegie Trust for archival and library studies in London on marital violence in England 1800-57.
Management & Consumer Studies
(Centre for Applied Nutrition Research)Prof AS Anderson & Dr C Pine (Dental School): £15,539 from Department of Health for promoting dietary change in low income communities: assessing the feasibility of dietary interventions in general dental practice (joint Uni. Of Strathclyde) (extension)
Mechanical Engineering
Prof JR Hewit, Dr EW Abel, Mr AP Slade & Prof RJC Steele (Surgery): £275,342 from Engineering & Physical Sciences RC for access-optimised system for transanal surgery (ACCOST).
Dr DA Carus, Prof JR Hewit & Dr MS Pridham; Dr R Keatch, & Mr B Lawrenson (Electronic Eng and Physics): £246,574 from CEC IST Programme provision for improved lifestyles via Access to Consumer pacKAGEs.
Medical Education
Dr MH Davis: £33,123 from EC PHARE PROGRAMME for development of Independent Test Board to introduce Licensure System in Health Sector in Ukraine.
Medicine
Prof JJF Belch: £49,192 from Medical Research Council: Can an acceptable level of lifestyle and dietary change alter the features of Syndrome X in childhood?
Dr S Burns (TPCT) & Dr PA Johnstone (TUHT) (Ophthalmology): £3,000 from an anonymous trust for improving the detection of open angle glaucoma in elderly day hospital patients.
Dr CR Paterson: £4,182 from an anonymous trust for clinical aspects of Brittle Bone Disease.
Dr J Parratt: £2,850 from an anonymous trust for chlamydia pneumoniae infection in Multiple Sclerosis.
Prof JJF Belch & Mrs R Levison: £4,830 from an anonymous trust for screening several asymptomatic populations at high risk of vascular disease.
Mrs R Levison; Mr G Griffiths & Mr PA Stonebridge (Surgery): £5,000 from an anonymous trust for abdominal aortic aneurysms-screening programmes.
Dr RC Roberts: £5,405 from Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust for a long term study to investigate the safety and tolerability of Remacemide Hydrochloride within the dose range 200mg-2400mg per day in patients with epilepsy.
Molecular & Cellular Pathology
Dr FV Fuller-Pace, Dr FA Carey & Dr NM Kernohan: £130,344 from Chief Scientist Office for the role of the pg68 RNA helicase in colorectal tumorigenesis.
Dr G Macfarlane: £7,000 from Tenovus Tayside for effect of synbiotics on the rectal microflora in patients with ulcerative colitis.
Dr FA Carey, Dr NM Kernohan, Dr N Pratt & Prof RJC Steele: £100,000 from Tenovus Tayside for laser-capture microscopy for comparative genomic hybridisation in colorectal adenomas and carcinomas.
Prof EG Wright, Dr K Macleod, Dr TR Hupp, Dr FV Fuller-Pace & Dr D Bowen: £149,000 from Chief Scientist Office for fluorescence-activated cell sorter (Equipment Initiative for Cancer).
Dr TR Hupp: £38,616 from Cancer Research Campaign for purification and characterization of enzymes that target the conserved N-terminal BOX1 domain of human p53.
Dr WHI McLean: £4,800 from an anonymous trust for mutation analysis and DNA fingerprinting from single cells.
Dr E Furrie: £4,993 from an anonymous trust for typing of promoter polymorphisms of the IL10 and TGF1 cytokine genes in ulcerative colitis patients.
Dr JCM Paterson: £4,983 from an anonymous trust for diet ageing and immunomodulatory effects of the colonic microflora.
Dr MJ Hopkins: £4,920 from an anonymous trust for scanning confocal microscopy or microbial populations associated with the colonic epithelium in ulcerative colitis.
Dr G Macfarlane: £6,200 from an anonymous trust for changes in the gut microflora associated with the ageing process and the effects of antibiotics and prebiotics in elderly patients.
Dr MWH Coughtrie & Mrs S Sharp; Mr AM Thompson (Surgery): £5,000 from an anonymous trust for molecular analysis of a novel risk factor influencing susceptibility to breast cancer.
Prof EG Wright: £78,602 from The European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) for genomic instability and radiation-induced cancer (RADINSTAB).
Nursing & Midwifery
Dr K Smith: £9,829 from Chief Scientist Office for long term evaluation of cardiac rehabilitation on health outcomes in patients (and partners) following first myocardial infarction (MI) (joint with University of St Andrews).
Mrs S Gall: £34,000 from Tayside Health Board for carer support training for nurses: A psychological approach to the family management of schizophrenia (joint with Glasgow University and Perth & Kinross Health Care NHS Trust).
Ophthalmology
Miss KH Weed & Dr CJ MacEwen: £2,500 from an anonymous trust for invivo confocal microscopy – normative data trial.
Orthopaedics
Dr CA Wigderowitz: £5,000 from Anonymous Trust for imaging of the proximal femur.
Dr T Drew & Dr RA Lerski (Medical Physics): £4,830 from an anonymous trust for an intelligent external fixator.
Dr R Abboud: £8,000 from an anonymous trust for GAITRite multiple step gait analysis system.
Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Dr D Belelli: £5,000 from an anonymous trust for the effects of neurosteroids, benzodiazepines and barbiturates upon GABAA mediated synaptic transmission in the thalamus: relevance to the treatment of absence of epilepsy.
Mrs J Miller: £4,900 from an anonymous trust for increasing the contribution of local researchers and clinicians toward developing guidelines for the assessment of incapacity in people with dementia.
Dr KC Breen: £4,500 from an anonymous trust for the role of the inflammatory response in the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease – a potential therapeutic target.
Dr BG Frenguelli: £4,855 from an anonymous trust for provision of a tissue sectioning device and temperature controller to study the effects of hypoxia/ischaemia on neuronal function.
Dr GA Lyles: £4,100 from an anonymous trust for mechanisms of nitric oxide synthase induction in lymphatic vessel smooth muscle cells: targets for drug therapy of septic shock.
Psychology
Dr M Bennett & Dr F Sani: £2,132 from INTAS for the development of national, ethnolinguistic and religious identity in children and adolescents living in the NIS.
Psychiatry
Dr KC Breen & Dr GA Lyles (Pharmacology & Neurosciences): £57,000 from Alzheimer’s Research Trust for the role of nitric oxide synthase as a component of the inflammatory response associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Studentship: Ms Claire Small).
Radiotherapy
Prof AJ Munro & Dr A Bentley; Dr SH Ibbotson (Dermatology) & Ms M Wells (Nursing & Midwifery): £4,825 from an anonymous trust for a study: Can the skin erythema response to radiotherapy and/or 5-fluorouracil be used as a predictor of therapeutic toxicity.
Social Work
Dr D May: £5,932 from Parent to Parent Tayside for peer support system for children with special educational needs in mainstream education.
Ms B Daniel & Prof N Baldwin: £9,500 from Scottish Executive for preparation of practice materials for building resilience in children and young people.
Ms B Daniel, Prof N Baldwin & Mr J Ennis: £19,025 from Scottish Executive for moving from Assessment to Action: a developmental project and programme of dissemination.
Surgery
Miss D Ziyaie & Mr AM Thompson; Dr TR Hupp (Molecular & Cellular Pathology): £4,930 from an anonymous trust for P21 activity in response to tamoxifen treatment in Breast Cancer.
Prof RJC Steele & Ms P Dunkley: £4,935 from an anonymous trust for promoting reflective surgical practise.
Town & Regional Planning
Prof MG Lloyd & Mr J McCarthy: £41,671 from Economic and Social Research Council for fiscal incentives for urban regeneration (Joint with University of Ulster).
Dr WM Edgar: £18,502 from Scottish Homes for Scotspen further analysis and dissemination contract 1999/2000 (joint with University of St Andrews).
Prof MG Lloyd, Mrs BM Illsley & Mr J McCarthy: £7,380 from Scottish Executive Central Research Unit for new industrial and commercial facilities in national park areas: size, location and design considerations.
INDUSTRIAL AWARDS
Chemistry
Dr J Thomson: £13,500
Child Health
Dr S Mukhopadhyay: £7,050
Civil Engineering
Prof A Vardy: £24,264
Dr TA Newson & Prof MCR Davies: £1,636
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Prof BJ Lipworth: £244,400
Prof TM MacDonald: £70,000
Dental School
Prof NB Pitts & Dr C Longbottom: £20,000
Dr AM Schor: £7,000
Electronic Engineering & Physics
Prof AP Cracknell, Dr RW Duck (Geography) & Mr A Watt (Town & Regional Planning): £11,000.
Dr B Ramsay: £10,500
Geography
Dr RW Duck: £4,700
Medical Education
Mrs E Rogerson: £24,675
Medicine
Dr RS MacWalter: £9,000
Orthopaedics
Prof DI Rowley & Mr GR Hogg: £28,200.
Prof DI Rowley: £82,431
Research & Innovation Services
Mr J Houston: £21,000
Surgery
Mr AM Thompson: £39,868
Prof Sir A Cuschieri: £75,000
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