WELLCOME TRUST AND THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
A total of £41 million has been awarded to four new UK centres of excellence in medical engineering in a joint funding scheme between the Wellcome Trust and the EPSRC. The centres, at higher education institutions across the UK, will facilitate collaborations between clinicians, biomedical scientists and engineers, with the aim of producing advances in fields such as imaging and genetics. (Figures are rounded to the nearest million.)
Award winner: Ross Ethier
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £11 million
OSTEOARTHRITIS
Award winner: Reza Razavi
Institution: King's College London
Value: £10 million
MEDICAL IMAGING
Award winner: Lionel Tarassenko
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £8 million
PERSONALISED HEALTHCARE
Natural Environment Research Council
Award winner: M. Joshi
Institution: University of Reading
Value: £26,465
HIGH-RESOLUTION CLIMATE DYNAMICS
Award winner: T. Murray
Institution: Swansea University
Value: £39,899
EXTENDING THE TIMESCALES OF GLACIER VOLUME CHANGE IN REGIONS OF GRACE-GRAVITY ANOMALIES IN NORTHERN GREENLAND
Award winner: S. Steacy
Institution: University of Ulster
Value: £36,880
TESTING A HYBRID COULOMB/STATISTICAL MODEL OF AFTERSHOCK OCCURRENCE
Award winner: A.L.D. Densmore
Institution: Durham University
Value: £,604
RAPID ASSESSMENT OF SEDIMENT DYNAMICS ON AN ACTIVE DEBRIS-FLOW FAN
Award winner: R. J. Hardy
Institution: Durham University
Value: £37,396
HOW DOES AQUATIC VEGETATION MODIFY THE KINEMATIC AND GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF COHERENT FLOW STRUCTURES IN OPEN CHANNELS?
Award winner: A. Hubbard
Institution: Aberystwyth University
Value: £53,057
A HOLISTIC MODEL OF OUTLET CALVING, DYNAMIC ACCELERATION AND DRAWDOWN FOR THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET
Award winner: C. Wilson
Institution: University of Stirling
Value: £63,541
Assessing spatial variability of C, Fe and Al concentrations in gleyed soils as a means of understanding the stabilisation of soil organic carbon
Award winner: M. Huxham
Institution: Edinburgh Napier University
Value: £40,531
The mangrove carbon-cycle influence of below-ground processes and managed cutting
Award winner: V. R. Phoenix
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £23,268
Opening the black box: imaging nanoparticle transport with magnetic-resonance imaging
Award winner: D. Dobson
Institution: University College London
Value: £43,248
CONTAINERLESS HEATING FOR EXTREME MELTS AND GLASSES: DETERMINING THE MELTING TEMPERATURE OF THE LOWER MANTLE
National Institute for Health Research
The NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme produces independent research information on the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of healthcare treatments and tests for those who plan, provide or receive National Health Service care. Listed here are the May-June 2009 research grant awards.
Award winner: Matthew Thompson
Institution: Department of primary healthcare, University of Oxford
Value: £125,326
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND VALIDATION OF CLINICAL PREDICTION RULES FOR IDENTIFYING CHILDREN WITH SERIOUS INFECTIONS IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS AND URGENT-ACCESS PRIMARY CARE
Award winner: Jill Colquitt
Institution: Wessex Institute, University of Southampton
Value: £178,793
THE CLINICAL AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF BONE-ANCHORED HEARING AIDS (BAHAS) FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BILATERALLY DEAF
Award winner: Peter Hillmen
Institution: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Value: £469,367
A randomised, phase II trial in previously untreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia to compare fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide, mitoxantrone and low-dose rituximab (CLL6)
In detail
Award winner: John Fisher
Institution: University of Leeds
Value £11 million: Fifty more years after 50
The challenge of catering for an ageing population is behind the development of this centre of excellence, which aims to improve the quality of life for people over the age of 50. John Fisher's team will look at ways to assist the skeletal, muscular and cardiovascular systems in supporting the human body through improved prosthetic implants and technologies to help tissues regenerate. Research at the centre will also explore the process of degeneration, with the intent of improving diagnoses and helping to provide more appropriate methods of treatment.