Grants

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Charities

Professor B. Wood and Dr D. Lewis-Jones, Pounds 98,988 from Nuffield Hospitals (senior demonstrators 1995/96); Drs M. Zuzel and R. Theakston, Pounds 62,371 from Wellcome Trust (interaction of platelet collagen receptor alpha-2, beta-1 integrin with the disintegrin-like domain of jararhagin (jararhagin C)); Drs M. Caddick, P. Eggleston and Professors A. Cossins, J. Saunders and P. Strike, Pounds 96,853 from Wellcome Trust (high sensitivity, quantitative molecular imaging); Drs S. Carter and D. Bennett, Pounds 96,150 from Home of Rest for Horses (alterations in growth factor production and receptor expression in normal and diseased joints); Professor D. Eisner and Dr R. Dimaline, Pounds 180,911 from British Heart Foundation (control of systolic[Ca2+] in cardiac hypertrophy and failure);

Dr J. Gallagher, Pounds 90,150 from Arthritis and Rheumatism Council (role of extracellular nucleotides in regulation of bone and cartilage resorption); Dr C. Howard, Pounds 57,500 from Baily Thomas, FB, Charitable Trust (pregnancy in diabetic women in Mersey region); Drs G. Humphris and E. Vaughan and Mr J. Brown, Pounds 51,478 from Cancer Research Campaign (fear of recurrence in orofacial cancer patients: development and testing of psychological intervention); Dr S. Kemp, Pounds 111,717 from Wellcome Trust (identification of genes controlling resistence to trypanosomiasis in C57BL/6 and Balb/c mice); Professor M. Lennon, Pounds 59,640 from Borrow Dental Milk Foundation (milk fluoridation project); Dr A. Morgan, Pounds 146,136 from Wellcome Trust (function of synaptobrevin in Ca2+-triggered exocytosis); Professors J. Neilson and M. Molyneux, Pounds 223,230 from Wellcome Trust (vitamin A intervention trial in anaemic women in Malawi).

Research contracts

Dr M. Barry, Pounds 50,000 from Verex Laboratories Inc, US, (donation for research); Mr J. Williams and Drs S. Wray and C. Vaillant, Pounds 50,000 from BSAVA Clinical Studies Trust Fund (investigation of the contractility, innervation and control of intracellular Ca2+ and pH in dog breeds with high and low susceptibility to gastric-dilation volvulus); Professor T. Elliott, Pounds 90,106 from the Geological Society (Iberian pyrite belt); Professor P. Weightman, Pounds 63,712 from Sandia National Laboratories, US (understanding and control of energy transfer mechanisms in optical ceramics).

Research grants

Professor D. Bacon, Pounds 263,364 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (simulation of defects in zirconium and other metals using bond-order potentials); Dr R. Burrows and Mr R. Tickell, Pounds 63,015 from EPSRC (Morison wave force coefficients for applications to random seas); Dr J. Downes, Pounds 92,580 from Economic and Social Research Council (implicit memory: development of language processing model); Professor B. Heaton and Dr J. Iggo, Pounds 187,460 from EPSRC (update of NMR console to allow in situ characterisation of catalytic systems and carbonyl clusters);

Professor C. Johnson and Dr M. Thomas, Pounds 112,308 from EPSRC (Mossbauer measurements of tin in float glass); Professor G. Jones and Drs P. Russel and J. Spencer, Pounds 124,586 from EPSRC (intelligent optical current transformer based on chromatic techniques); Professor C. Michael, Pounds 151,299 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (perturbative and nonperturbative QCD phenomenology on the lattice) and with Dr D. Jones, Pounds 261,957 from PPARC (theoretical particle physics); Dr I. O'Neil, Pounds 119,800 from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (homochiral amine oxides as powerful conformational controlling elements in small molecules) and Pounds 86,457 from EPSRC (the synthesis of novel polymers containing amine oxides to control macromolecular conformation); Dr S. Rees, Pounds 87,722 from EPSRC (parameter spaces of rational maps);

Drs S. Taylor and K. Nuttall and Professor J. Leck, Pounds 79,438 from EPSRC (micromachined quadruple mass spectromer); Professor Q. Wu, Pounds 87,148 from EPSRC (optimisation of large-scale systems using automata based simulated evolution mechanisms); Dr R. Cosstick, Pounds 130,000 from BBSRC (synthesis and application of nucleic acid analogues containing 3-S-phosphorothiolate linkages) and with Dr I. O'Neill, Pounds 90,000 from BBSRC (medium field NMR machine); Professor R. Dunbar, Pounds 88,544 from ESRC (centre for economic learning and social evolution); Dr P. Eggleston, Pounds 137,823 from MRC (transformation of the mosquito genome through gene targeting);

Drs M. Fang, K. Chen and Professor G. Jones, Pounds 86,770 from EPSRC (computer-aided analysis and design of SFC autoexpansion circuit-breakers); Dr J. Field, Pounds 148,379 from MRC (isolation and identification of the gene responsible for oesophageal cancer in two large pedigrees with NEPPK); Dr C. Gilks, Pounds 67,041 from MRC (a double-blind placebo controlled trial of pneumoccal vaccine in HIV infected adults in Uganda); Dr A. Kaka and Mr J. Lewis, Pounds 90,231 from EPSRC (development of a computer-based model to assist contractors to plan, forecast and control cashflow); Dr R. Nichols, Pounds 138,839 (atomic and molecular scale insights into mechanisms and kinetics of electrochemical reactions);

Professors N. Richardson and P. Weightman, Pounds 1,564,800, Pounds 192,4, Pounds 408,506 and Pounds 88,444 from EPSRC (interdisciplinary research centre in surface science); Professor D. Schiffrin, Pounds 64,032 from EPSRC (electroassisted optical waveguide sensors for metal ions); Professor M. Shave and Drs J. Bench-Capon, M. Beer and B. Diaz, Pounds 211,844 from EPSRC (knowledge re-use and functional transformation); Dr J. Shaw, Pounds 130,389 from Natural Environment Research Council (microwave archaeointensity dating); Professor W. Steen, Pounds 285,429 from EPSRC (laser surface processing); Professor A. Trees, Pounds 238,744 from BBSRC (immunopathology of bovine neosporosis); Dr M. White, Pounds 59,232 from BBSRC (flourescence and luminescence imaging workstation for real-time cell biological studies);

Dr Z. Alfrevic, Pounds 133,029 from MRC (Pan-European trial of antenatal administration of thyrotropin- releasing hormone to reduce human and health service burden of neonatal immaturity); Professor G. Amaratunga, Pounds 111,216 from EPSRC (memory technology for integrated microelectronic power control and switching circuits); Professor R. Bentall and Mr P. Kinderman, Pounds 82,283 from MRC (study of cognitive reality-alignment therapy in early schizophrenia); Dr J. Blachut, Pounds 118,245 from EPSRC (buckling of closed toroidal shells under external pressure); Dr G. Eastmond, Pounds 148,534 from EPSRC (synthesis and properties of polyether imides and other stable aromatic polymers with ortho-linked main-chain units); Professor M. Escudier, Pounds 70,753 from EPSRC (turbulent boundary-layer structure and drag-reduction mechanisms over a compliant surface); Professors E. Gabathuler, J. Dainton and P. Booth, Pounds 90,770 from PPARC (particle physics grant, 1994-98);

Dr S. Hall and Professor W. Eccleston, Pounds 180,867 from EPSRC (oxidation of SiGe for device application); Professor J. Lucas and Dr J. Smith, Pounds 184,797 from EPSRC (IMI - fusion welding process monitoring and control); Drs A. Millward, J. Sproston and D. Nicolaou, Pounds 120,897 from EPSRC (numerical modelling of water flow around fast ships and catamarans); Dr L. Mountain, Pounds 81,871 from EPSRC (improved estimates of effects of accident remedial schemes); Professor D. Oldham, Pounds 72,701 from EPSRC (electrochemical re-alkalisation chloride removal and alkali-silica reaction in concrete)

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