THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
The NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme researches the broader impacts of healthcare treatments provided by the National Health Service. Seven winners share £8.7 million in funding.
Award winner: Samer Nashef
Institution: Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Value: £487,658
A randomised controlled trial to study the clinical and cost effectiveness of adding an ablation device-based maze procedure as a routine adjunct to elective cardiac surgery for patients with pre-existing atrial fibrillation (AMAZE)
Award winner: Andrew Clegg
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £156,431
The safety and effectiveness of different methods of ear-wax removal: a systematic review and economic evaluation
Award winner: Nicola Low
Institution: University of Bern
Value: £287,451
Clinical and cost-effectiveness of technologies for testing and treating sexual partners of people with sexually transmitted infections: evidence synthesis and mathematical-modelling study
Award winner: Nigel Pitts
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £596,212
INTERVAL Dental Recalls Trial (Investigation of NICE Technologies for Enabling Risk-Variable Adjusted Length Dental Recalls Trial) - a feasibility study and follow-on
Award winner: Paul Stallard
Institution: University of Bath/Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust
Value: £1,029,065
A single blind randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of group cognitive-behaviour therapy in preventing depression in high-risk adolescents
Award winner: Peter Brocklehurst
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £5,957,981
A multi-centre randomised controlled trial of an intelligent system to support decision-making in managing labour using the cardiotocogram (INFANT)
Award winner: Neil Morton
Institution: Royal Hospital for Sick Children
Value: £195,958
A multi-site randomised controlled trial comparing regional and general anaesthesia for effects on neurodevelopmental outcome and apnoea in infants
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Stuart Pickering-Brown
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £1,900,000
A trial into the biological causes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD)
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: James Leigh
Institution: University of Nottingham in collaboration with the University of Oxford, the Bovine Genomics group based at the Institute of Animal Health, the Royal Veterinary College and the US Department of Agriculture in the UK.
Value: £2,200,000
A trial into Streptococcus uberis, to uncover bacterial antigens for potential use in vaccines against bovine mastitis.
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: G. Griffiths
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £476,426
Nature in engineering for monitoring the oceans
Award winner: W. Powrie
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £362,755
Dissolved and solid-phase organic carbon influences on the sorption/desorption of hydrophobic organic contaminants in clay barriers
Award winner: H. Chen
Institution: University of Salford
Value: £223,729
Using the grouping and shrinkage approaches to forecasting subaggregate-level seasonal demand
Award winner: P.A.M. Basheer
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Value: £331,497
Development of a performance-based methodology for assessing concrete durability
Award winner: M. Mazzocco
Institution: Loughborough University
Value: £100,819
Quantum Teichmuller spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces and generalised Frobenius manifolds
Award winner: P.O. Bagnaninchi
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £170,757
4D monitoring of stem-cell differentiation by dielectric spectroscopic optical coherence tomography
Award winner: J. Boxall
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £350,714
Contaminant ingress into distribution systems (CID)
Award winner: B. Hutton
Institution: University College London
Value: £780,962
Optimising reconstruction to accommodate complex system models for SPECT
Award winner: M.C. Leaper
Institution: De Montfort University
Value: £230,909
Novel analysis techniques for particulate products.
