ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Seven new projects have been awarded funding under the AHRC's Research Networking Scheme. The financial backing has been provided to encourage the discussion and development of new ideas in specific areas, or to provide solutions to problems through the use of workshops, seminars and other similar research-networking events. Listed below are six of the winners: the seventh project, led by Joss Hands and Jussi Parikka, was published in detail last week.
Award winner: R.W. Bradley
Institution: London School of Economics
Value: £37,166
Choice theory network
Award winner: P. Knight
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: £37,355
Culture of the market network
Award winner: R. Peel
Institution: University of Plymouth
Value: £29,353
Separateness and kinship: transatlantic exchanges 1600-1900
Award winner: A. Rowland
Institution: University of Salford
Value: £26,479
The future of testimony
Award winner: V. Scheid
Institution: University of Westminster
Value: £37,421
Traditional East Asian Medicines Research Network (TEAMsRN): making medical humanities relevant to the globalisation of East Asian medicine
Award winner: J.M. Webber
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £,5
Reading Sartre: on phenomenology and existentialism
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
More than £9 million has been awarded by the MRC to four high-throughput sequencing hubs across the UK. The funding seeks to build on existing resources and expertise in the field to create centres of excellence and provide greater insights into genome variation and evolution.
Award winner: John Todd (University of Cambridge)
Institutions: European Bioinformatics Institute, Babraham Institute, NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Value: £2,257,596
The Eastern sequence and informatics hub (EASIH)
Award winner: Neil Hall (University of Liverpool)
Institutions: Universities of Sheffield and Manchester
Value: £2,068,064
High-throughput sequencing hub for the North of England
Award winner: Peter Donnelly (University of Oxford)
Institutions: MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Mary Lyon Centre, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
Value: £2,284,500
Oxford regional high-throughput sequencing hub
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: R.W. Martin
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Value: £574,658
Ultra-energy-efficient III-nitride/polymer hybrid white LEDs using nanotechnology
Award winner: M.M. Parish
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £561,015
Correlated phases in novel superconductors and ultra-cold atomic gases
Award winner: D.S. McPhail
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £2,322,333
Determination of surface and interface processes in materials science
Award winner: R.K. O'Reilly
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £104,173
Software-controlled assembly of oligomers
Award winner: R. Vilar Compte
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £1,259,831
Interaction of metal complexes with DNA and proteins: towards a new generation of therapeutic and imaging agents
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Award winner: Mark Blaxter (University of Edinburgh)
Institutions: Universities of Dundee, Glasgow, Aberdeen and the MRC Human Genetics Unit
Value: £2,426,748
Establishment of an MRC sequencing hub at the GenePool
Funding for this project will go towards Scotland's next-generation genomics facility, the GenePool, which is based at the University of Edinburgh. Building on its existing capabilities, it is intended that the facility will be able to deliver to a wider range of biomedical investigators in the Scottish research sector in areas such as cardiovascular disease, psychiatric disorders and cancer. The GenePool will also support major research groups examining the genetics of early development and the pathology and epidemiology of infectious diseases.