European Commission
Marie Curie Fellowship
- Award winner: Andrew Sutherland
- Institution: Aston University
- Value: £185,026
Polymers containing rhenium or molybdenum inorganic clusters for materials and biomedical imaging applications
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
First grant
- Award winner: Donna Arnold
- Institution: University of Kent
- Value: £78,794
Multiferroic behaviour in A- and B-site cation ordered perovskites
Standard grant
- Award winner: Kate Bedford
- Institution: University of Kent
- Value: £533,292
A full house: developing a new socio-legal theory of global gambling regulation
Economic and Social Research Council
Future Research Leaders Scheme
- Award winner: Shailen Nandy
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £156,758
Are we there yet? Using the Bristol Approach to examine trends in absolute poverty in sub-Saharan Africa between 1995 and 2015
- Award winner: Julius Mugwagwa
- Institution: The Open University
- Value: £163,322
Innovative spending: what should money be spent on to make global health innovations more effective in developing countries?
- Award winner: Matthew Rablen
- Institution: Brunel University
- Value: £166,096
Optimal audit portfolio design for a tax authority
DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme
- Award winner: Christopher Garforth
- Institution: University of Reading
- Value: £396,645
Innovation systems, agricultural growth and rural livelihoods in East Africa
- Award winner: Arjan Verschoor
- Institution: University of East Anglia
- Value: £348,444
A behavioural economic analysis of agricultural investment decisions in Uganda
Leverhulme Trust
Research project grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Isaac Kuo-Kang Liu
- Institution: University of Warwick
- Value: £211,105
Multi-scale biomechanical investigation of engineered tissue
- Award winner: Ian Russell
- Institution: University of Brighton
- Value: £193,688
Exploiting acoustic distortion by mosquitoes to listen on the wing
- Award winner: Carmen Molina-Paris
- Institution: University of Leeds
- Value: £245,031
Vascular receptor-ligand programming: stochastic modelling of cellular fate
In detail
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Award winners: Malcolm East and Howard Barton
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £287,000
Study of the role of anionic lipids in cell signalling: a mechanism for the modulation of ABC multidrug transporters
This research project is aimed at making drugs more effective. “We are interested in the role of ‘transporters’ which remove unwanted material from cells,” Dr East said. “Besides ejecting waste material, cells also remove drugs, which makes them less effective as treatments. We believe that lipids within cell membranes may control this activity.” Understanding these mechanisms could suggest ways of improving the effectiveness of antibiotics, anti-malarial drugs and cancer treatments.