The Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust has announced four new partnership programmes between academia and industry as part of an initiative to foster a new generation of clinicians trained in translation and therapeutic medicine, enabling clinicians from a range of specialties to pursue MSc, PhD and postdoctoral research opportunities. Each award is for £2.75 million, and the industrial partners will match the Wellcome Trust's £11 million funding.
Training programme in clinical pharmacology and translational medicine
Award winner: David Jones
Institution: University of Newcastle
Industrial partners: Roche, AstraZeneca, Sanofi-Aventis, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, PTC Therapeutics and GlaxoSmithKline
Mitochondrial medicine, liver disease and diabetes, neuromuscular disease, inflammatory disease, rheumatology and dermatology, and chronic respiratory disease
Translational medicines and therapeutics at the University of Cambridge
Award winner: Morris Brown
Institution: University of Cambridge
Industrial partner: GlaxoSmithKline
Metabolic science, neuroscience, oncology, therapeutic immunology, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, cardiovascular and pharmacological sciences
Scottish translational medicine and therapeutics initiative
Award winner: David Webb, University of Edinburgh
Institutions: Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow
Industrial partner: Wyeth Research
Cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, inflammatory disease, musculoskeletal disease, neuroscience and reproductive health
Experimental medicine for new therapeutics development
Award winner: Martin Wilkins
Institution: Imperial College London
Industrial partner: GlaxoSmithKline
Neuroscience, metabolic medicine, respiratory medicine, inflammation, cardiovascular sciences and renal medicine
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Award winner: S.B. Cooper
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £265,239
The computational structure of partial information: definability in the local structure of the enumeration degrees
Award winner: B. Coecke
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £174,421
Complexity and decidability in unconventional computational models
Award winner: A.J. Mulholland
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £284,557
Combined experimental and computational investigations of a nucleophilic displacement reaction with a hydride-leaving group
Award winner: S.A.R. Stevens
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £267,993
Explicit and l-modular theta correspondence
London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society announced its 2008 prizewinners this week. It will present the seven awards at its annual general meeting in November.
Polya Prize
Winner: David Preiss
Institution: University of Warwick
In recognition of contributions made to analysis and geometric measure theory, in particular his 1987 paper "Geometry of Measures", in which he solved the remaining problem in the geometric theoretic structure of sets and measures in Euclidean space
Frohlich Prize
Winner: Nick Higham
Institution: University of Manchester
In recognition of his leading contributions to numerical linear algebra and numerical stability analysis
Senior Berwick Prize
Winner: Kevin Buzzard
Institution: Imperial College London
For the paper "Eigenvarieties", published in L-functions and Galois Representations (2007), volume 320 of the LMS Lecture Note Series
Whitehead Prizes
Winner: Timothy Browning
Institution: University of Bristol
For significant contributions on the interface of analytic number theory and arithmetic geometry, concerning the number and distribution of rational and integral solutions to Diophantine equations
Winner: Tamas Hausel
Institution: University of Oxford
For his investigations into hyperkahler geometry, which have led to the proof of deep results in the representation theory of quivers, mirror symmetry and Yang-Mills instantons
Winner: Martin Hairer
Institution: University of Warwick
For his contributions to the theory of stochastic differential equations
Winner: Nina Snaith
Institution: University of Bristol
For her work at the interface of random matrix theory and number theory.
