Awards made during 1994-95
£100,000 as a capital grant to Professors Henry Dargie (Medicine & Therapeutics), Ian McGrath (Physiology) and Stuart Cobbe (Medical Cardiology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary) all of Glasgow University, to fund the provision of a suite of five research laboratories as part of the University's Clinical Research Initiative into cardiovascular disease.
£19,211 to Drs Richard Ashley & Cecile Martin (Biochemistry, Edinburgh University) and Dr Karen Chapman (Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh) for a six-month pilot study of the expression of calcium release channel genes in human brain.
£33,004 to Mr David Gough, Steven Heys, Ben Younes and Professor O. Eremin (Surgery) and Dr J. Broom and P.H. Whiting (Clinical Biochemistry, Aberdeen University Medical School) for a one-year investigation of the potential for exogenous recombinant interleukin-2, administered in low doses, to reduce tumour-associated cachexia and endotoxin sensitivity.
£7,647 to Dr Jeremy Bagg & Miss Kirsty Roy (Glasgow Dental School), Dr Edward A. Follett (HIV/Hepatitis Laboratory) and Dr David J. Goldberg (Scottish Centre for Infection & Environmental Health, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow) for a one-year study aimed at optimising specimen collection methods for the detection of hepatitis C in saliva.
£57,799 to Professor Janet M. Alllen (Molecular Medicine, Glasgow University) over 23 months for studies on the mechanism of Fc(gamma)RI internalisation of antigen.
£36,063 to Dr Karen Horsburgh (Wellcome Surgical Institute & Hugh Fraser Laboratories, Glasgow University) for a one-year study of alterations in protein kinase C and amyloid precursor protein in human head injury and stroke.
£58,000 for three years to Mr Malcolm Dunlop (Surgery, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh) and Dr Susan Farrington (MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh) to purchase a DNA sequencer for their studies on the genetic basis of colorectal cancer.
£56,805 over two years to Professor Alex Elliott & Mr Keith McKellar (Clinical Physics, Glasgow University), Professor James McKillop (Medicine), Dr Brian Neilly (Nuclear Medicine) and Dr Curtis Gemmell (Biochemistry, Glasgow Royal Infirmary) for a study involving novel radiopharmaceutical approaches to inflammation imaging.
Mrs Jean V. Baxter Medical Research Fellowship 1995-97 was awarded to Dr Martin McIntyre (Medicine & Therapeutics, Western Infirmary Glasgow) for a study of endothelial nitric oxide deficiency in cardiovascular disease and its consideration as a target for genetic manipulation.
Cruden Medical Research Scholarship 1995-96 was awarded to Dr David William Rae (Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Aberdeen University) to carry out biochemical, biomechanical and magnetic resonance imaging studies of the human pregnant cervix with a view to improving understanding of the mechanisms controlling dilatation of the cervix.