ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AND THE NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Anglo-Dutch network initiatives in the humanities
Joint applications for up to €40,000 (£33,000) each have now been successfully funded for networking or exchange activities relating to two thematic areas: Sustainable Communities in a Changing World and Cultural Interactions of Research.
• Award winners: Martin Conboy and Marcel Broersma
• Institutions: University of Sheffield and University of Groningen
Capturing change in journalism: shifting role perceptions at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries
• Award winners: Robert Gleave and Leon Buskens
• Institutions: University of Exeter and Leiden University
The Sharia Project: a UK-Netherlands Islamic legal studies network
LEVERHULME TRUST
Research Project Grants
Basic sciences
• Award winner: Igor Lerner
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: £198,600
Kinetics of entangled-photon generation with high- and low-intensity sources
• Award winner: Robert Scotland
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £243,323
Exploring ways to accelerate taxonomy: foundation monographs and the world flora
• Award winner: Lorenzo Frigerio
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £161,157
Studying the biogenesis of protein storage vacuoles by reprogramming leaf development
International Networks
Humanities
• Award winner: Michela Massimi
• Institution: University College London
• Value: £104,162
Kant and the laws of nature: lessons from the physical and life sciences of the 18th century
• Award winner: David Stirrup
• Institution: University of Kent
• Value: £98,632
Culture and the Canada-US border
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Health Services and Delivery Research programme
• Award winner: Jane Sandall
• Institution: King's College London
• Value: £216,524
The efficient use of the maternity workforce and the implications for safety and quality in maternity care: an economic perspective
• Award winner: Scott Weich
• Institution: University of Warwick
• Value: £220,487
Understanding the increasing rate of involuntary admissions in NHS mental healthcare
IN DETAIL
Efficiency and Mechanism Evaluation programme
• Award winner: Eric Alton
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: £3,073,905
Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled Phase 2B clinical trial of repeated application of gene therapy in patients with cystic fibrosis
Every day in the UK a child is born with cystic fibrosis (CF). The disease was once fatal, but conventional treatments in specialist clinics now mean that most sufferers survive to young adulthood, although their long-term prospects are poor. As CF arises from a defect in a single gene (CFTR), the simplest theoretical cure is to deliver a working copy of the gene to cells lining the lung. This study will test whether monthly delivery of a working copy of the CFTR gene for one year can improve the lung function of 130 CF patients, the majority of whom have already participated in a run-in study. The team is well placed to measure the impact of the gene therapy, the most important measurement being an improvement in lung function.