WELLCOME TRUST
SIR HENRY WELLCOME POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
The Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellows for 2010 have each been provided with £250,000 in funding over a four-year period. This substantial financial support will allow these 18 newly qualified postdoctoral researchers to pursue research in key areas in the field of biomedicine.
Award winner: Oliver Bannard
Institution: University of Oxford
The regulation of B-cell responses during malaria infections
Award winner: Ross Chapman
Institution: Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
Defining the role of BRCA1 and associated proteins in suppressing 53BP1-dependent toxic DNA repair
Award winner: Samuel Dean
Institution: University of Oxford
The trypanosome flagellar pocket - functions and adaptations in differentiation, pathogenicity and immune evasion
Award winner: Helge Dorfmueller
Institution: University of Dundee
Mechanism and inhibition of chitin synthesis
Award winner: Daniel Fazakerley
Institution: University of Dundee
Use of proteomics and systems biology to dissect the molecular adaptability of metabolism in muscle and fat cells
Award winner: Demis Hassabis
Institution: University College London
Understanding the episodic memory system and its critical role in future thinking
Award winner: Nerea Irigoyen
Institution: University of Cambridge
Ribosomal frame-shifting and read-through in virus gene expression
Award winner: Benjamin Judkewitz
Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Optofluidic microscopy for portable low-cost malaria diagnostics
Award winner: Line Loken
Institution: University of Oxford
Feelings of pain and pleasure: delineating hedonic sensation in the brain
Award winner: Andrew MacAskill
Institution: University College London
Spine-specific targeting of ion channels in striatal neurons
Award winner: John Perry
Institution: University of Exeter
Identifying low-frequency and rare genetic variation involved in Type 2 diabetes using next-generation sequencing data
Award winner: Sridharan Rajagopalan
Institution: University of Oxford
Proteases as next-generation therapeutics for Influenza A
Award winner: Oliver Ratmann
Institution: Imperial College London
Unravelling the dynamics of rapidly evolving infectious diseases in humans with approximate Bayesian computations
Award winner: Anthony Roberts
Institution: University of Leeds
Mechanisms regulating movement and force generation by cytoplasmic dynein
Award winner: Aleksandra Watson
Institution: University of Cambridge
The structural basis of the interactions of the NuRD co-repressor complex
Award winner: Elton Zeqiraj
Institution: University of Dundee
A structural and biochemical approach to understanding the molecular mechanism of glycogen synthesis
Award winner: Kaixin Zhou
Institution: University of Dundee
Heritability and pharmacogenetics in patients with Type 2 diabetes
IN DETAIL
Award winner: Molly Crockett
Institution: University College London
Value: £250,000
Automatic and analytical altruism: neurobiological foundations of human prosocial behaviour
The Wellcome Trust funding for this project will allow Ms Crockett to explore the extent to which human beings' altruistic inclinations are innate, the result of habit or calculated. Conducting her research at the University of Zurich and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL, she will use the latest tools in neuroscience to investigate people's preferences for fairness and equality in society. "I will use the Fellowship to work in laboratories worldwide to learn different approaches to questions about human behaviour, from economics to neuroscience. It will give me an unprecedented amount of independence at this stage in my career and will be important for creating an identity for myself as a scientist," Ms Crockett said.