Major Grant Awards July to December 2011
3 February 2012
Congratulations to the following staff who were awarded major grants (>K£100) during the period 1st July to 31st December 2011:
Prof V Crunelli (Wellcome Trust) Integrated Neuroscience Studentships £732,715
Prof AR Clarke, Prof M Ehrmann with Edinburgh (CRUK) Validating methylation sensing proteins as therapeutic targets - £718,344
Prof P Kemp, Dr N Allen & Prof A Rosser (CHDI) Joint Steering Committee Agreement - £592,000
Prof AR Clarke, Prof T Maughan (MEDIC) & Prof S Denyer (PHRMY) (CRUK) Cardiff Cancer Research UK Centre - £461,041
Prof F Sengpiel (BBSRC) Cellular mechanisms of developmental plasticity in primary visual cortex - £404,932
Dr P Kille, Prof AJ Morgan & Prof MW Bruford (NERC) Stress in a hot place: Ecogenomics and phylogeography in a pantropical sentinel inhabiting multi-stressor volcanic soils - £383,009
Prof A Rosser & Prof S Dunnett (University of Ulm) Euro HD network - £372,102
Prof AR Clarke (Prostate Cancer Research Centre) Defining the role of wildtype and mutant plexinB1 in prostate cancer - £263,884
Prof AR Clarke (with Prof T Maughan & Prof S Denyer) (CRUK) Cardiff Cancer Research UK Centre - £235,040
Dr M Jawad & Prof R Eccles (GSK) Effect of two doses of a common cold treatment on cognitive function - £231,150
Dr B Latinkic & Dr N Allen (BHF) Mechanisms of action of cardiogenic transciption factor GATA4 - £192,412
Prof B Caterson, Dr CE Hughes, Dr AJ Hayes & Dr J Ralphs (Arthritis Research UK) The biological functions of chondroitin/dermatan sulphate sulphation motifs in musculoskeletal growth and development - £182,437
Dr K Berube (Welsh Government A4B) METABO-LUNG: Biotransformational lung cell model project - £138,342
Dr E Mathenthiralingam (KTP & Unilever) To develop novel preservative systems that target bacterial resistance mechanisms and set new industry standards for using cultivation independent microbial analysis in preservative challenge testing - £132,608
Dr E Blain (MRC) Target validation and lead identification in osteoarthritis - £109,277
Dr E Lloyd-Evans & Dr A Jones (WEFO) Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship - £101,807
Dr R Thomas, Prof TH Jones & Dr I Vaughan (WEFO) Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship - £101,806
Dr S Griffiths & Prof S Ormerod (WEFO) Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship - £101,806