Awards made during 1993-94
£15,320 for one year to Drs Jill J.F. Belch & F. Khan (Medicine, Dundee University) and Dr Margaret McLaren & Sister Roberta Littleford (Vascular Medicine, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee) for a study of fibrinolysis and endothalial cell function in patients with Raynaud's Phenomenon.
£89,854 over three years to Dr Kieran C. Breen (Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, Dundee University) for a study of neural glycosylation state in Alzheimer's Disease.
£62,170 over two years to Professor Iain T. Cameron & Dr Fiona Lyall (Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Glasgow University) & Dr Anthony P. Davenport (Cambridge University) for an investigation of endothelin receptor subtypes in human endometrium and their role in the pathophysiology of menorrhagia.
£89,850 over two and a half years to Drs Hugh J. Willison & G. Paterson (Neurology, Glasgow University) and colleagues in Cambridge, London and Texas, for a study involving combinatorial library cloning of anti-ganglioside antibodies from autoimmune neuropathy patients.
£86,085 over three years to Professor Andrew H. Wyllie (Pathology, Edinburgh University) for an analysis by new methods of genomic instability in colorectal carcinoma.
£62,850 over two years to Dr Carol E. Chu (Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow) & Professor J.M. Connor (Medical Genetics, Glasgow University) for a clinical and molecular genetic analysis of Turner's Syndrome, correlating genotype to phenotype.
£7,774 for a one-year pilot study to Mrs Stephanie Webb & Professor Andrew H. Wyllie (Pathology, Edinburgh University) to investigate the regulation of apoptosis by p53 and other genes.
The Mrs Jean V. Baxter Medical Research Fellowship (1994-96) was awarded to Dr Philippa M.A. Shanahan (Medical Microbiology, Edinburgh University) for an examination of the genetics and analysis of the biochemistry of the resistance determinants in the multi-resistant Salmonella typhi which is currently causing an epidemic in India.
The Cruden Medical Research Scholarship was awarded to Dr Kevin W. Robertson (Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary University NHS Trust) to study the role of EGF and C-ERBB-2 receptors in determining the invasive potential of breast cancer.