NC3Rs
The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research has funded ten new grants, totalling £2.6 million.
Award winner: Sue Barnett
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £294,404
The development of an in vitro model of CNS injury to identify factors that promote repair.
Award winner: Andrew Cossins
Institution: University of Liverpool
Value: £512,584
Development of a mechanistically informative genome-wide, in vitro chemicals screening technology.
Award winner: Atticus Hainsworth
Institution: St George's, University of London
Value: £43,288
Carotid artery endothelial growth: a novel in vitro assay.
Award winner: Ioanna Katsiadaki
Institution: Cefas
Value: £398,640
Validating a sexual development test using the three-spined stickleback for addressing the 3Rs in fish toxicity testing.
Award winner: Robert Newbold
Institution: Brunel University
Value: £299,052
Development and validation of mechanisms-based in vitro transformation assays for carcinogen screening.
Award winner: Keith Redhead
Institution: Intervet
Value: £26,988
Replacement in vitro assays for the quantification of clostridial vaccine antigens.
Award winner: Paul Simons
Institution: University College London
Value: £302,128
Inducible SAA transgenic mice: a refined model of human amyloidosis.
Award winner: Phil Stephens
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £243,624
Establishment and validation of a stable, cell-based diabetic wound bioassay.
Award winner: Siouxsie Wiles
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £0,784
Reduction and refinement of murine models of bacterial infection.
Award winner: Jun Zou
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £254,548
Development of leucocyte cell lines for immunological research in teleost fish.
EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
Nine UK projects received EUR2.5 million (£2 million) or a maximum of EUR3.5 million.
Award winner: Angelos Chaniotis
Institution: University of Oxford
The social and cultural construction of emotions: the Greek paradigm.
Award winner: William Tecumseh Fitch
Institution: University of St Andrews
The syntax of the mind: a comparative computational approach.
Award winner: Peter Jackson
Institution: University of Sheffield
Consumer culture in an age of anxiety: political and moral economies of food.
Award winner: Oliver Bruce Linton
Institution: London School of Economics
Nonparametric and semiparametric methods in economics and finance.
Award winner: Colin John McInnes
Institution: Aberystwyth University
The transformation of global health governance: competing world views and crises.
Award winner: Patrick Karl O'Brien
Institution: London School of Economics
Useful and reliable knowledge in global histories of material progress in the East and the West.
Award winner: Josephine Shaw
Institution: University of Edinburgh
The Europeanisation of citizenship in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia.
Award winner: John Moore
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Money, liquidity and the aggregate economy.
Award winner: Ran Spiegler
Institution: University College London
Bounded rationality in industrial organisation.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Dr K. Maitland
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £2.6 million
Randomised trial of fluid resuscitation strategies in African children with severe febrile illness and impaired perfusion.
Award winner: A. Hayward
Institution: University College London
Value: £951,000
Flu-watch 2008-09.
Award winner: C. Watts
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £2.1 million
Acute dendritic cell responses to TLR ligands.