Grants and awards 2010/2011
Health Sciences Grants over £300k awarded Aug 2010 – July 2011
The 27 grants below illustrate the scale of funding, the range and diversity of research areas and strengths in health sciences. These grants total over £15,536,421
- James Nazroo (PI), School of Social Sciences
MRC; £1,777,211
Inequalities in later life frailty and wellbeing: an interdisciplinary approach to causality (2011-16) - Bill Deakin (PI), School of Community Based Medicine
Dept Health; £1,316,212
The benefits of minocycline on negative symptoms in schizophrenia (2011-15) - Bill Shaw (PI), School of Dentistry
The Healing Foundation; £1,155, 098
Healing Foundation UK Centre for Cleft Research (2011-16) - Stavros Stivaros (PI), School of Cancer and Enabling Sciences
Department of Health; £963,682
Improving the diagnosis, assessment and outcome in patients with hydrocephalus and raise intracranial pressure (2011-16) - Stephen Harrison (PI), School of Community Based Medicine
Department of Health; £865,743
Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System (2011-15) - Karina Lovell (PI), School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
NIHR; £803,152
OCTET: Obsessive Compulsive Treatment Efficacy Trial (2011-15) - Gina Conti-Ramsden (PI) School of Psychological Sciences
ESRC, £798,607
Language impairment and adulthood: identifying pathways to resilience / maladjustment in personal, social and societal functioning (2011-14) - Paul Brocklehurst, (PI), School of Dentistry
National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Scientist Fellowship Award; £785,797
The efficacy, cost-effectiveness and feasibility of screening for common dental diseases by dental care professionals (2011-16) - David Baxter (PI), School of Translational Medicine
Novartis Pharma AG; £764,506
A phase 3, observer blind, randomised, multi-centre, controlled study to evaluate the effects of Novartis vaccine's Meningococcal B recombinant ad MenACWY conjugate vaccines on pharyngeal carriage of N. Meningitis in young adults, (2010-12) - Louis Appleby (PI) School of Community Based Medicine
National Patient Safety Agency; £739,490
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (2011-12) - Jennifer Shaw, (PI), School of Community Based Medicine
Dept of Health; £638,198
Critical time intervention for severely mentally ill released prisoners: a randomised control trial (CrISP) (2011-15) - Philippa Tyrrell (PI), School of Biomedicine
MRC, £619,268
Development clinical studies - does subcutaneous IL-1RA reduce inflammation following subaracnoid haemorrhage (SAH)? (2010-13) - Peter Bower (PI), School of Community Based Medicine,
MRC, £551,040
Systematic Techniques for Assessing Recruitment to Trials (START): A programme to test recruitment interventions (2011-14) - Fiona Lecky (PI), School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
Department of Health; £539,573
Head injury transportation straight to neurosurgery (HITS-NS) trial - a feasibility study (2010-12) - William Hope (PI), School of Translational Medicine
MRC; £486,424
Cryptococcal meningitis: addressing an urgent global health problem using a translational pharmacological approach (2011-14) - Anne Rogers (PI), School of Community Based Medicine
NIHR; , £468,063
National School for Primary Care Research – capacity building (2010-2015) - Brian Bigger (PI), School of Biomedicine
The Society for Mucopolysaccaride Diseases; £438,082
Development of therapies for sanfilippo disease (2011-13) - Bill Deakin (PI), School of Community Based Medicine
MRC; £433,340
New drugs for addiction: focus on attenuating core behavioural components of heroin, cocaine and alcohol addiction (2011-13) - Paul Bishop (PI), School of Biomedicine
The Moulton Charitable Trust; £427,750
Pilot randomised trial of copper chelation by TETA (Tri-Ethylene-Tetramine) to improve cardiac mass, arterial function +/- other organ damage in Type 2 diabetes (2011-14) - David Denning (PI), School of Translational Medicine
European Commission, £414,307
Fungi in the settling of inflammation, allergy and autoimmune disease: translating basic science into clinical practice (2010-13) - Nicolas Jones, School of Cancer and Enabling Sciences
Cancer Research UK; £413,721
The Gibb Fellowship (2011-14) - Shôn Lewis (PI), School of Community Based Medicine
MRC; £375,856
A mobile assessment technology of schizophrenia (2010-12) - Dian Donnai (PI), School of Biomedicine
European Commission; £357,689
Development of the European portal of rare diseases and orphan drugs - Orphanet Europe (2011-14) - Andrea Murray (PI), School of Translational Medicine
The Moulton Charitable Trust; £343,237
Avoiding mite allergen to prevent asthma exacerbations in children (2011-13) - Andrea Murray (PI), School of Translational Medicine
Arthritis Research UK; £330,808
Shedding light on the cause of systemic sclerosis: can non-invasive imaging techniques elucidate pathenogenesis and measure disease? (2010-15) - Adnan Custovic (PI), School of Translational Medicine
The Moulton Charitable Trust; £318,005
Susceptibility to infections and exacerbations of asthma: markers and mechanisms (2011-13)