Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Award winner: Joanne Webster
- Institution: Royal Veterinary College
- Value: £763,444
Epidemiology and evolution of zoonotic schistosomiasis in a changing world
- Award winner: Sergey Kasparov
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £492,210
Identification of the molecular substrate for L-lactate-mediated catecholamine signalling in the brain
- Award winner: Liliana Minichiello
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £392,780
Basal ganglia signalling mechanisms and ageing
National Institute for Health Research
Health Technology Assessment Programme
- Award winner: Colin Simpson
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £296,106
Seasonal influenza vaccination effectiveness II (SIVE II): use of a large national primary care and laboratory-linked dataset to evaluate live attenuated and trivalent inactivated influenza vaccination effectiveness
- Award winner: Sallie Lamb
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Value: £820,997
Synthesising a clinical prognostic rule for ankle injuries in the emergency department (SPRAINED)
- Award winner: Ruth Langley
- Institution: University College London
- Value: £3,124,812
Add-Aspirin trial: a phase III double-blind placebo-controlled randomised trial assessing the addition of aspirin after standard primary therapy in early stage common solid tumours
Royal Society
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement
- Award winner: Graham Reed
- Institution: University of Southampton
Silicon photonics for the 21st century
- Award winner: Iain McCulloch
- Institution: Imperial College London
Disorder-free semiconducting materials platform
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
First grant – revised 2009
- Award winner: Karina Rodriguez Echavarria
- Institution: University of Brighton
- Value: £97,491
Automatic semantic analysis of 3D content in digital repositories
Standard research
- Award winner: Chris Speed
- Institution: Edinburgh College of Art
- Value: £306,871
Connected high street
In detail
Award winner: Emanuele Trucco
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £922,996 (EPSRC contribution)
Multimodal retinal biomarkers for vascular dementia: developing enabling image analysis tools
Evidence already suggests that changes to the tree-shaped patterns of blood vessels in the eye can be linked to a number of diseases, such as stroke and cardiovascular disease. Emanuele Trucco, professor of computational vision, and his team - in collaboration with academics from the University of Edinburgh - will use specially developed computer software – which analyses high-definition images of the eye from multiple instruments – to establish whether such changes can act as an early indicator of Alzheimer’s disease. “There is the promise of early warning in a non-invasive way,” said Professor Trucco. “And we even might be able to use the test to differentiate between different types of dementia.”
