National Institute for Health Research
Research Grants
- Award winner: Rod Taylor
- Institution: University of Exeter
- Value: ?169,783
Exercise-based rehabilitation for chronic heart failure: an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
- Award winner: Kristian Pollock
- Institution: University of Nottingham
- Value: ?456,499
Managing medicines at the end of life for patients being cared for and dying at home
- Award winner: Stuart Taylor
- Institution: University College London
- Value: ?358,183
MRI enterography as a predictor of disabling disease in newly diagnosed Crohn’s disease
- Award winner: Maria Lohan
- Institution: 蚕耻别别苍’蝉-University Belfast
- Value: ?1,734,948
The Jack Trial: a multi-site cluster randomised trial of an interactive film-based intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy and promote positive sexual health
Medical Research Council
Research Grants
- Award winner: Jan Herman Kuiper
- Institution: Keele University
- Value: ?285,981
How do cartilage injuries heal naturally? An experimental study in humans
- Award winner: Kathryn Else
- Institution: University of Manchester
- Value: ?427,776
Educating macrophages in vivo
- Award winner: Angela Suzanne Attwood
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: ?148,304
Developing alcohol labelling interventions: the “what”, “who” and “how”
- Award winner: Thomas Wills
- Institution: University College London
- Value: ?386,370
The post-natal development of hippocampal memory networks
Royal Society
Newton Advanced Fellowships
- Award winner: Ana Luchiari
- Institution: Swansea University
- Value: ?73,133
Fish like us: refining the use of fish in translational research
- Award winner: Qi Zhao
- Institution: University of Bristol
- Value: ?110,400
Evolution of avian locomotion
- Award winner: Gong-Bo Zhao
- Institution: University of Portsmouth
- Value: ?110,000
Cosmological implications of the eBOSS survey
In detail
Natural Environment Research Council
Award winner: Timothy Hill
Institution: University of Exeter
Value: ?654,799
Lightning: an invisible driver of tree mortality in the tropics?
Tropical forests mitigate climate change by locking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. An increase in the mortality of these tropical forest trees, however, is sapping the strength of this carbon sink. Lightning strikes – which are frequent and powerful in the tropics – are partially responsible for tree deaths, and they may increase by as much as 60 per cent by 2100 as a result of climate change. Because of the impossibility of knowing where lightning will strike, lightning-induced tree death has not been much studied. Timothy Hill and his team will investigate the phenomenon by deploying sensors on 20,000 trees in sites in Nigeria and Cameroon, which will enable the researchers to observe a large number of lightning strikes. They will study how the trees are affected by the strikes, how the carbon storage of the forest is affected, and make predictions about how this could be affected by climate change.