Grant winners - 19 June 2014

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Research Grants

• Award winner: Daniel Nussey
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: £639,824

Life-long telomere dynamics, health and fitness in a long-lived mammal

• Award winner: Swidbert Ott
• Institution: University of Leicester
• Value: £689,981

Dynamics and origins of socially induced plasticity of behaviour

• Award winner: Bing Hu
• Institution: Plymouth University
• Value: £426,044

Role of the FoxN1 gene as a central regulator of epidermal planar cell polarity signalling expression and function

• Award winner: Anthony Moore
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: £0,154

Probing the molecular basis of oxygen reduction by the alternative oxidases

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Sharon Baurley
• Institution: Royal College of Art
• Value: £1,673,748

Prototyping open innovation models for ICT-enabled manufacturing in food and packaging

• Award winner: Andy Monkman
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: £791,298

OLEDs without iridium. 100 per cent efficient triplet harvesting by thermally activated delayed fluorescence

• Award winner: Steve Rannard
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: £896,475

Integrated radiomaterials chemistry for simultaneous multi-component tracking of nanomedicines in biological matrices

• Award winner: Antony Carrington
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: £496,658

High-pressure studies of quantum criticality in unconventional superconductors

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants

• Award winner: Harriet Bradley
• Institution: University of the West of England
• Value: £262,047

Paired peers: moving on up? The impact of social class on graduate destinations

• Award winner: Andrew Reynolds
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £292,207

Travel and communication in Anglo-Saxon England

In detail

National Institute for Health Research

Award winner: Nadine Foster
Institution: Keele University
Value: £1.93 million

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Developing a stratified treatment model for patients with musculoskeletal problems

This five-year programme of research aims to develop a new model in primary care for people with musculoskeletal problems, so that treatment can be tailored according to patients’ risk of suffering persistent pain and disability. A variety of methods will be used by the researchers to test a new set of questions to target help for patients, observe how this helps GPs and identify whether it is cost-effective for the NHS. The programme hopes to help those with common musculoskeletal problems including back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain and pain in multiple body sites. Chief investigator Nadine Foster, professor of musculoskeletal health in primary care at Keele, said that using stratified care to target risk groups can lead “to better pain relief and physical function, and is cheaper to deliver than usual care”.