Leverhulme Trust
International Network Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Istvan Ballai
- Institution: University of Sheffield
- Value: £108,980
Instabilities in partially ionised prominence plasmas
- Award winner: Balint Toth
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £125,520
Laplacians, random walks, bose gas, quantum spin systems
Research Project Grants
Sciences
- Award winner: Setsuko Sahara
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £177,936
A quantitative approach towards understanding the evolutionary cortical size regulation
- Award winner: David Clayton
- Institution: Queen Mary University of London
- Value: £312,618
Neurogenomics of perception
Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Award winner: Paul Readman
- Institution: King’s College London
- Value: £777,581 (AHRC contribution)
The redress of the past: historical pageants in Britain, 1905-2016
Economic and Social Research Council
ESRC/DFID Joint Scheme for Poverty Alleviation Research
- Award winner: Ian Harper
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Value: £444,230
New norms and forms of development: brokerage in maternal and child health service development and delivery in Nepal and Malawi
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Research Grants
- Award winner: Susan Francis
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: £437,070
Gustotopic mapping in humans: a high-resolution fMRI study to assess detailed topography and modulations
- Award winner: Zafar Bashir
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: £693,617
Understanding the hippocampal-perirhinal-prefrontal tripartite circuit in associative memory
- Award winner: Carole Goble
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: £192,113
Delivering ELIXIR-UK
Royal Society
Wolfson Research Merit Awards
Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement
- Award winner: Sue Black
- Institution: University of Dundee
The new biometric: your life in your hands
- Award winner: Richard Grencis
- Institution: University of Manchester
Understanding parasitism: survival and immunoregulation of parasitic nematodes
In detail
NC3Rs/EPSRC
Award winners: Malcolm Clench (team lead), David Smith, Neil Cross and Laura Cole
Institution: Sheffield Hallam University
Value: £244,045
Labelled IMS-TAG proteins for quantitative mass spectrometry imaging
A technique to reduce the need for animal testing in pre-clinical research is being developed. In previous projects that looked at protein change in tumours after anti-cancer drug administration, researchers needed to be able to measure changes in protein levels to provide clinicians with an accurate picture of how tumours respond to treatment. “Under the usual method you would need around 25 mice for testing, but by using mass spectrometry imaging, only one mouse would be needed,” Professor Clench said.
