ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Malcolm Vale
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?721,073
The Gascon Rolls 1317-1468
Award winner: James Hegarty
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: ?168,715
The history of genealogy, the genealogy of history: the family and the narrative construction of the past in early South Asia
Award winner: Roland Smith
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?644,290 The last statues of antiquity
Award winner: Michael Caesar
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: ?154,187
The Zibaldone Project: the first complete edition in English of the notebooks of Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Award winner: Bjarke Frellesvig
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?826,715
Verb semantics and argument realisation in pre-modern Japanese: a comprehensive study of the basic syntax of pre-modern Japanese
Award winner: Mary-Ann Constantine
Institution: University of Wales
Value: ?608,574
Wales and the French Revolution
Award winner: Michael Questier
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Value: ?5,480
Who were the nuns? A prosopographical study of English convents in exile in the 17th and 18th centuries
Award winner: James Saunders
Institution: Bath Spa University
Value: ?163,891
Words and music: defining the compositional and performance practice of text scores
Award winner: John Darlington
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: ?152,975
Patterns of reference and networks of authority: classical and biblical citations and the production of a new canon in Early Modern culture 1500-1800
Award winner: Bill Wells
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: ?169,654
Phonetic design of overlapping speech in talk-in-interaction: a cross-linguistic study
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: J. Masthoff
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: ?105,930
The joking computer: an interactive language playground
Award winner: B. Nuseibeh
Institution: The Open University
Value: ?24,422
Security and privacy for all
Award winners (institution): I. D. Abrahams (University of Manchester), C. J. Howls (University of Southampton)
Value: ?15,7, ?61,6
"Meet the mathematicians" outreach events
Award winner: I. Hardalupas
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: ?524,022
How does primary liquid break-up determine the downstream spray characteristics of airblast atomisers?
Award winners (institution): G. R. Davis (Queen Mary, University of London), T. Wess (Cardiff University)
Value: ?797,268, ?501,824
High definition X-ray microtomography and advanced visualisation techniques for information recovery from unopenable historical documents
Award winner: M. Ghadiri
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: ?364,621
Assessing the flowability of cohesive powders from a small sample quantity
Award winner: R. M. Morgan
Institution: University College London
Value: ?9,593
Collaboration meetings with academics at the University of Western Australia and Canberra University and an international conference presentation of new research in Melbourne
Award winner: M. D. Bowden
Institution: The Open University
Value: ?5,851
Grant in aid of supporting the Sixth UK Technological Plasma Workshop
WELLCOME TRUST
Nine UK universities have received awards totalling almost ?30 million to help create new, internationally competitive research facilities under the Capital Awards in Biomedical Sciences initiative.
Award winner: Ed Watkins
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: ?3.6 million
Improving psychological interventions for mood and personality disorders: a translational research approach
Award winner: Irene Leigh
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: ?3.5 million
Centre for Molecular Medicine
Award winner: Brian Sutton
Institution: King's College London
Value: ?1.7 million
Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Award winner: Jennifer Kirkham
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: ?1.1 million
Clinical and translational research unit at Leeds Dental Institute
Award winner: Mike Barer
Institution: University of Leicester
Value: ?3.9 million
Faculty of medicine and biological sciences central research facility
Award winner: Janet Hemingway
Institution: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Value: ?2 million
Fourth floor of new centre for tropical infectious disease; refurbishment of part of the existing LSTM building
Award winner: Jeff Errington
Institution: University of Newcastle
Value: ?6 million
Bacterial cell biology building
Award winner: Nicholas Rawlins
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?2.1 million
Divisional centre for behavioural and systems neuroscience
Award winner: Jim Naismith
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: ?5 million
Biomedical sciences research complex
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
A total of ?5 million in funding has been awarded to nine UK projects under a BBRSC-led scheme that aims to improve techniques for faster and more efficient development and manufacture of biological medicines.
Award winner: Zhangfeng Cui
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?480,559
Lyophilisation of proteins: an in situ study on structural changes and molecular interactions
Award winner: Tim Dafforn
Institution: University of Birmingham
Value: ?416,200
An amphipathic reagent to extract, stabilise and purify proteins
Award winner: Royston Goodacre
Institution: University of Manchester
Value: ?402,612
Raman spectroscopy as a novel analytical bioprocessing tool for process analytical technology (PAT)
Award winners (institution): Chris Hewitt (Loughborough University), Lorraine Young (University of Nottingham)
Value: ?376,648, ?366,643
Developing scalable, standardised manufacturing methods for human pluripotent stem cells
Award winner: Ioan Notingher
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: ?543,484
Non-invasive biophotonics tool for phenotypic identification of pluripotent stem cells and their progeny
Award winners (institution): Colin Robinson (University of Warwick), Eli Keshavarz-Moore (University College London)
Value: ?346,970, ?334,424
Exploitation of the Tat export machinery for protein production by bacteria
Award winner: Nigel Slater
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: ?3,494
BRIC 2008: bioprocess intensification by microcapillary separations systems
Award winners (institution): Mark Smales (University of Kent), Daniel Bracewell (University College London)
Value: ?323,538, ?365,107
Integrating upstream host cell-line selection and development with improved downstream bioprocessing
Award winners (institution): Nicholas Willoughby (Heriot-Watt University), Paul De Sousa (University of Edinburgh)
Value: ?310,945, ?104,711
A novel characterisation and separation technique for pluripotent human embryonic and hematopoeitic stem cells.
