BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
The BBSRC has announced the winners of the 2008 David Phillips fellowships for scientists who have demonstrated high potential and who wish to establish themselves as independent researchers.
Award winner: Sven Bestmann
Institution: University College London
Value: £750,612
Biasing influences on the motor system during action preparation: a multimodal neuroimaging-computationally informed approach
Award winner: Umber Cheema
Institution: University College London
Value: £565,374
Understanding how to engineer oxygen-dependent angiogenesis in 3D tissue models
Award winner: Henrik Ehrsson
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £1,136,486
Brain mechanisms of body ownership
Award winner: Samuel Fountain
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £805,980
The cell biology of ATP signalling at intracellular P2X receptors
Award winner: James Fraser
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £887,732
Cardiac electrophysiological homeostasis
Award winner: Catherine Jopling
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £844,444
MicroRNA-mediated regulation of viral replication
Award winner: David Lyons
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £768,646
Cellular and genetic analysis of central nervous system myelination in zebrafish
Award winner: James Murray
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £500,251
Investigation of water oxidising catalysis for renewable energy
Award winner: Eugenio Sanchez-Moran
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: £763,213
Integrating chromatin structure and global chromosome dynamics
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP
Award winner: Darren Wilkinson
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £267,698
Integrative modelling of stochasticity, noise, heterogeneity and measurement error in the study of model biological systems
PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIP
Award winner: Anne Willis
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £822,464
The role of the RNA regulon in the control of gene expression
INSTITUTE CAREER PATH FELLOWSHIP
Award winner: Megan Davey
Institution: The Roslin Institute
Value: £1,119,807
Investigation of the role of the primary cilia and centrosome during signalling events in development, using the chicken mutant talpid3
Award winner: Vicky MacRae
Institution: The Roslin Institute
Value: £935,058
Characterising novel mediators of vascular calcification
INSTITUTE DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP
Award winner: Keith Davies
Institution: Rothamsted Research
Value: £85,183
Genetic modulation of surface coat variation in Caenorhabditis elegans and its applicability to bacterial pathogenesis of plant parasitic nematodes
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Five new UK/Irish research collaborations have been announced in a joint funding partnership between the AHRC and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Award winners: Martyn Bennett and Micheal O'Siochru
Institution: Nottingham Trent University/Trinity College, Dublin
Value: £15,250
Oliver Cromwell and the transformation of Britain and Ireland
Award winners: Christopher Bertram and Cara Nine
Institution: University of Bristol/University College Cork
Value: £8,614
Theories of territory: resource rights, global justice and self-determination
Award winners: Jerome de Groot and Crawford Gribben
Institution: University of Manchester/Trinity College Dublin
Value: £7,960
Royalist and radical religion 1642-1660
Award winners: Alison Henry and Eithne Guilfoyle
Institution: University of Ulster/Dublin City University
Value: £10,735
Research network in linguistics
Award winners: Christina Lee and Catherine Swift
Institution: University of Nottingham/University of Limerick
Value: £15,731
Migration of Irish, Hiberno-Norse and other Gaelic-speaking populations in the Viking Age.