Reports and Grants
Recent successful grants
Professor John Craft has been awarded a NERC KT grant of £105,650 to work with SEPA on Translating Environmental Genomics Outputs into Practical Use.
Dr Joanna McParland was awarded an ESRC grant for £98,000 (McParland and Eccleston): Exploring justice issues in chronic pain: sufferer and partner perspectives.
Dr Ann Graham was awarded £176,150 from British Heart Foundation to study ‘Mitochondrial cholesterol trafficking: a key element in regulation of macrophage cholesterol homeostasis and foam cell formation’
Drs Patricia Martin and Catherine Wright, along with Dr David Flint (Strathclyde University) have been awarded a 2-year grant of £225,000 from the Chief Scientists Office to continue investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying the role of connexins in wound healing.
Drs Martin and Wright were also awarded £10,000 from the British Skin Foundation to investigate the effects of connexin mimetic peptides on gene expression during wound healing events.
Dr Laura Mitchell, Professor Richard Hammersley and Dr Phil Dalgarno received the British Pain Society Mildred Clulow Award of £45,000 for the project ‘An experimental investigation of the effects of cannabis use on pain perception, control and coping’.
Professors Richard Tester and Kofi Aidoo have obtained yet another Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant, worth £80,649, to fund a project with the Natural Fruit & Beverage Company Limited.
Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd has awarded Dr Sue Lang a grant of £23,519 for a 6 month project investigating the effects of telavancin on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Drs Cynthia McVey, Elaine Duncan and Christina Knussen have a research grant of £25,000 from Winning Scotland Foundation looking at the new positive coaching that is being rolled out through Scotland.
Dr Chris Bartholomew has obtained £45,000 from the Leukaemia Research Fund to support his work on EVI1 isoform expression and knockdown in chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Professors John Craft and Kevin Chipman (University of Birmingham) have been awarded a Small Grant (£3,500) by NERC to enable access to the pyrosequencing facility at the University of Liverpool.
BluScientific is outsourcing R&D for GreenBridge International Ltd. at £200,000 per year for the foreseeable future. This will fund two post-docs and technical support.
Dr John Gow has been awarded a grant of £90,000 from the Cunningham Trust for research on chronic fatigue syndrome.
Professor Richard Tester along with Professor John Marshall (Research & Innovation Services) has secured a Scottish Executive Proof of Concept grant worth around £140,000 for a two-year project on cellulosic (paper) based security systems.
NERC Quota Award
The Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences received a NERC Quota award based on successful NERC grant applications from Professor John Craft. Professor Craft will supervise the NERC studentship on
“Effects of environmental oestrogens on the oestrogenic control of egg-protein synthesis in fish.”