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Grant winners ¨C 5 January 2017

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January 5, 2017
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<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Research Grants

Towards practical quantum technologies


SuperSolar hub extension


Nanostructured metal oxides for solar fuels


Inertial confinement fusion ¨C exploring the options for ignition


Novel production process for renewable hydrogen from animal and human waste


<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Wellcome Trust

Investigator Awards in Humanities and Social Sciences

Renaissance skin


The Asian cocaine crisis: pharmaceuticals, consumers and control in South and East Asia, c.1900-1945

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Investigator Awards in Science

Large-scale genomic epidemiology approaches to study the natural history of lung function and COPD


<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ>Royal Society

University Research Fellowships

Mechanisms of aberrant intracellular trafficking in human disease

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Sexually antagonistic genes: from candidate to cause


Formation and evolution of extra-solar planets


  • Award winner: Charles Melnyk
  • Institution: John Innes Centre
  • Value: ?569,377

Generating and regenerating vasculature in plants


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Medical Research Council

Award winner: Kate Watkins
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?738,919

Enhancing speech fluency in people who stutter

Stuttering is a developmental condition that continues to exist in one in 100 adults, often causing anxiety and restricting their ability to engage in some careers and hobbies. Fluency can be acquired through various methods ¨C including temporarily by speaking with a different accent ¨C but also by altering auditory feedback (such as by changing its pitch). The latter¡¯s effectiveness suggests that stammering could be related to problems in combining motor and auditory information. Watkins¡¯ study will use standard therapeutic techniques while testing whether a weak current passed through the brain can improve the acquisition of fluency. They will also use MRI scans to observe communication between motor and auditory regions of the brain, develop new MRI techniques to scan the muscles associated with speech production and use magnetoencephalography to measure rapid brainwaves while people listen to and produce speech.

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