UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Charities Professor A. Bianco, Pounds 570,857 from Wellcome Trust (biology of secretion in filarial nematodes); Professor J. Cawley, Pounds 57,354 from Leukaemia Research Fund (nature and origin of quantitative and qualitative platelet abnormalities in leukaemia); Professor P. Cobbold, Pounds 658,705 from Wellcome Trust (study of single cell signalling) and with Dr J. Smith, Pounds 350,063 from British Heart Foundation (peptides that protect cardiomyocytes from anoxia and reoxygenation);
Professor J. Davies, Pounds 263,300 from Leverhulme Trust (Athens, Delphie and documentary historiography); Drs J. Green and D. Tidd, Pounds 55,339 from North West Cancer Research Fund (antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic agents against ovarian cancer cell lines); Dr S. Marshall-Clarke, Pounds 55,118 from North West Cancer Research Fund (analysis of defects of cell death signalling in mutant lymphoma cell lines); Dr D. Tidd, Pounds 93,170 from Cancer Research Campaign (development of oncogene and mutated tumour suppressor gene-targeted antisense oligonucleotide analogues as potential cancer chemotherapeutic agents); Professor B. Wood, Pounds 156,260 from Leverhulme Trust (late Neogene palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of Old World, large bodied omnivores); Professor R. Woods, Pounds 59,730 from Leverhulme Trust (demography of Victorian England and Wales); Professor R. Edwards, Pounds 63,549 from Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (muscular dystrophy treatment research programme); Dr J. Field, Pounds 103,061 from Roy Castle Cause for Hope Foundation (epidemiological assessment of high risk individuals with lung cancer in the Mersey region) and Pounds 65,875 from RCCHF (Liverpool lung project) and Pounds 65,142 from RCCHF (role of peptide growth factors, peptide amidating enzymes and genetic alterations in lung cancer); Professor I. Grierson, Pounds 100,000 from Foundation for Prevention of Blindness (experimental ophthalmology and ocular pathology) and with H. Warenius and Dr P. Hogg, Pounds 90,069 from Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (population control in the trabecular meshwork) and with Dr R. Williams, Pounds 52,036 from Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (modulation of cellular proliferation in the vitreous and retina using a controlled drug delivery system); Professor G. Parker, Pounds 130,482 from Royal Society (sperm competition and the evolution of sperm form and function).
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