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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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