ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

The ESRC has announced funding for five public heath centres. Each will receive ?4 million over the next five years. Funding is in conjunction with the Department of Health, the UK Clinical Research Collaboration and the Medical Research Council.

- Award winner: M. White

- Institution: Newcastle University

North East Centre of Excellence for Translational Research in Public Health.

- Award winner: L. A. R. Moore

- Institution: Cardiff University

Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement

- Award winner: F. Kee

- Institution: Queen's University Belfast

UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence

- Award winner: N. Wareham

- Institution: University of Cambridge

Diet and Physical Activity Public Health Research Centre

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- Award winner: K. Britten

- Institution: University of Nottingham

UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

- Award winner: Timothy J. Cole

- Institution: MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health/ UCL Institute of Child Health

- Value: ?349,155

Mathematical methods in the assessment of human growth

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- Award winner: Paul Elliott

- Institution: Imperial College London

- Value: ?405,772

Effects of early-life exposure to particulates on respiratory health in childhood and adolescence

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

- Award winner: Denis Burdakov

- Institution: University of Cambridge

- Value: ?284,000

NOVEL ENERGY-SENSING PATHWAYS IN THE BRAIN

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD

As part of its spring 2007 collaborative research and development competition, the TSB has awarded grants to 35 university projects. A selection of winners is published here. All have industrial partners.

- Institution: University College London

- Value: ?196,754 Lighting technology for next-generation games and CGI

- Institution: University of Bristol

- Value: ?487,041

Closing the Loop for Everybody's Energy Resources (Clever)

- Institution: Imperial College London

- Value: ?93,352

Optimisation of oxyfuel PF power plant for transient behaviour

- Institutions: Durham University; North East Wales Institute of Higher Education; University College London

- Value: ?239,112 (Durham), ?282,887 (Newi), ?291,457 (UCL)

New improved muds from environmental sources (Nimes)

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- Institution: University of Southampton

- Value: ?301,750

Deepwater permanent reservoir monitoring using fibre optic seismic arrays (Fosar Deep)

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- Institution: University of Manchester

- Value: ?605,7

Quantifying wet-gas liquid production to improve productivity and reservoir management

- Institution: Swansea University

- Value: ?9,341

High-resolution R2R flexo printing for volume production of flexible plastic electronics

- Institution: University of Manchester

- Value: ?313,185

Ultra-fast inorganic nanoelectronics on flexible substrates (Ultrafine)

- Institution: Brunel University

- Value: ?296,252

Addressable, conductive tracks in vehicles for ACEL flexible displays (Activel)

- Institution: University of Manchester

- Value: ?183,631

Customised adhesion of interlayers for plastic electronics

- Institutions: Queen Mary, University of London; University of Sheffield

- Value: ?245,454 (Queen Mary), ?47,522 (Sheffield)

Prototype sensor for periodontal disease monitoring

- Institution: University of Sheffield

- Value: ?556,657

Nanoscale polymer-ceramic composites for biomedical applications

- Institution: Cranfield University

- Value: ?140,747

Sealing and surface engineering technologies for USC steam turbine plant

- Institution: University of Leeds

- Value: ?250,239

Enhanced capture with oxygen critical operating parameters post-combustion scrubbing

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- Institution: University of Nottingham

- Value: ?170,704

Integrated biomass-fuelled CHP/cooling system.