Grants

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE Research grants Professor B. Hogwood and Dr D. Judge, Pounds 161,365 from the Economic and Social Research Council (audit of accountability - agencies and their multiple constituencies); Professor G. Hayward, Pounds 156,855 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (efficient ultrasonic inspection and monitoring of large structures); Dr L. Campbell, Pounds 44,334 from EPSRC (plasma generated shock wave/UV decontamination of liquids).

European funds Professor B. Banks, Pounds 300,877 from the EU (funding for centre for advanced structural materials); Professor D. Yuill and Ms. F. Wishlade, Pounds 188,660 from the EU (study of impact of policies of member states of EU on economic and social cohesion).

UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN An anonymous benefactor from the United Kingdom has made a Pounds 1 million endowment to Trinity College for the creation of a new chair in early Irish in the school of Irish and Celtic languages.

UNIVERSITY OF YORK Charities Dr C. Oldman, Pounds 52,725 from the Anchor Housing Association (study of housing with care: quality of service) and Pounds 31,464 from Anchor H.A. (monitoring and evaluation of Anchor home support); Professor P. Kemp, Pounds 53,886 from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (study of private renting in rural areas); Professor J. Milner, Pounds 50,250 from the Leukaemia Research Fund (restoration of p53 tumour suppressor function in leukaemia/lymphoma); Dr J. Molloy, Pounds 153,061 from the Royal Society (research fellowship to study single molecule mechanics measured by optical tweezers);Dr D. MacQuarrie, Pounds 141,246 from the Royal Society (study of the development and application of heterogeneous enantioselective catalysts); Dr J. Tame, Pounds 130,481 (research fellowship for crystallographic study of peptide-binding proteins); Professor N. Maitland, Pounds 59,084 from Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign (study of gene therapy for prostate cancer); Dr M. Rumsby, Pounds 28,086 from the Wellcome Trust (fellowship to study how tumour necrosis factors are cyto-toxic for oligodendrocytes but not astrocytes: elucidating the signal transduction pathway differences and the role of protein kinase C subspecies); Professor T. Skerry, Pounds 64,097 from the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council (study of paracrine regulation of bone remodelling by neurotransmitters); N. Pleace, Pounds 49,911 from Joseph Rowntree Foundation (open house project for people who sleep rough); Professor R. Wilson, Pounds 229,364 from The Wellcome Trust (study of lung phase immunity to Schistosoma mansoni: interplay of cytokines and adhesion molecules in the effector response); Professor N. Maitland, Pounds 28,514 from Yorkshire Cancer Research Campaign (purchase of fast protein liquid chromatography apparatus to purify cancer related proteins from human papillomavirus and human sources); Professor R. Wilson and Dr A. Mountford, Pounds 20,575 from The Wellcome Trust (study of induction and potentiation of protective THl lymphocyte-mediated responses against shistosomiasis).

to be continued