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Chairman appointed to OSCR
Scottish Ministers have appointed the Chairman, Professor David Harrison to membership of the board of the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) with effect from 15 February, 2010. Read more >>
New Lay Members appointed
Mr Brian Duffin & Mr Bruce W. Mann, both distinguished individuals from Scotland's financial and investment sector, have been appointed Members of Medical Research Scotland with effect from the end of November 2009.
- Brian Duffin, who retired in March 2007, has extensive experience in investment and marketing, having been Group Chief Executive of pensions & investment specialists Scottish Life. He had joined Scottish Life in 1976, qualifying as an actuary three years later. He was appointed to the Board of Scottish Life in 1996 and became its Group Chief Executive in 1999.
- Bruce Mann has been Chairman of Glasgow-based the property and investment firm, W.M. Mann & Co. (Investment) Ltd., since October 2008. A graduate of the University of San Francisco and member of the Scottish Institute of Bankers, he has worked with the W.M. Mann Group for 15 years.
Further support for Scottish Senior Clinical Research Fellows confirmed
The Members have confirmed that they will again afford the newly-appointed Scottish Senior Clinical Research Fellows the opportunity to apply for some additional funding. This grant funding is principally intended to support the appointment of a Research Assistant on the central work of the Fellowship. It will be in keeping with Medical Research Scotland's twin commitments to support research of the highest quality, the outcome of which will make a contribution to improving the health of the nation and to supporting early-career researchers. For more information >>
New Grants Awarded
At their grant-giving meeting in August 2009, the Members agreed to award Research Project Grants to the following:
- £135,287 over two years to Dr Christine M. Dufes (Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences) and Professor Kevin Ryan (Beatson Institue for Cancer Research, Glasgow) for a project entitled, "Evaluation of systemic p73 gene therapy of cancer using a novel transferrin-targeted dendrimer".
- £249,947 over two years to Dr Nancy Sabatier (Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh) for a project entitled, "Hypothalamic mechanisms in obesity".
- £142,239 over two years to Dr John A. Marwick (who will move from the National Heart & Lung Institute at Imperial College, London to the University of Edinburgh) and Professor Adriano G. Rossi (MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh) for a project entitled: "Impact of oxidative stress and glucocorticoids on neutrophil function and macrophage clearance".
At the same meeting, the Members also decided to award £150,000 over three years to Dr Colin Berry (BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow) as supplementary support for his recently-awarded Scottish Senior Clinical Research Fellowship. Dr Berry's Fellowship research is entitled: "Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: new pathological insights and functional significance in acute myocardial infarction".