Leverhulme Trust
Philip Leverhulme Prizes
These awards recognise early career researchers whose work has already had a significant international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising.
Engineering
- Award winner: Haider Butt
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £70,000
Awarded for conducting pioneering research concerning the use of nanomaterials to develop novel optical devices
- Award winner: Bharathram Ganapathisubramani
- Institution: University of Southampton
- Value: £70,000
Awarded for his research in the area of experimental fluid mechanics
Research Project Grants
Humanities
- Award winner: Florian Urban
- Institution: Glasgow School of Art
- Value: £179,389
The new tenement
- Award winner: Colin Renfrew
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £148,329
Icon and centre in the Cycladic early Bronze Age: the implications of Keros
National Institute for Health Research
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme
- Award winner: David Jayne
- Institution: University of Leeds
- Value: £858,065
Next generation intraoperative lymph node staging for stratified colon cancer surgery
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme
- Award winner: Martin Roland
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Value: £264,644
Outpatient services and primary care: scoping review, case studies and international comparisons
- Award winner: Ewan Ferlie
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £490,236
NHS top managers, knowledge exchange and leadership: the early development of academic health science networks
- Award winner: Jo Rycroft-Malone
- Institution: Bangor University
- Value: £448,077
Accessibility and implementation in UK services of an effective depression relapse prevention programme: mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
In detail
Health Technology Assessment Programme
Award winner: Alun Huw Davies
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £1,479,326
Early venous reflux ablation (EVRA) ulcer trial: a randomised clinical trial to compare early versus delayed treatment of superficial venous reflux in patients with chronic venous ulceration
About 1 per cent of adults suffer from ulcers near the ankle, often due to varicose veins. Damaged valves within the veins result in blood flow down the leg (reflux). Currently the best treatment is the wearing of a tight compression bandage with multiple layers; this helps to reduce high venous pressure but can be uncomfortable. Newer treatments such as sclerotherapy or heat ablation may help the ulcers to heal more quickly. The team proposes a trial in which patients with a leg ulcer/varicose veins are treated either by compression bandaging with treatment of varicose veins after the ulcer has healed or by compression bandaging and early treatment of the veins. If early treatment of varicose veins of these patients improves healing rates in patients with leg ulcers, there will be significant cost savings for the NHS as well as great benefit for the patient group.
