Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants

• Award winner: Edward Anderson
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: ?161,082

Sequence-based stereochemical prediction: a new tool for polyketide structure elucidation

• Award winner: Dylan Childs
• Institution: University of Sheffield
• Value: ?159,336

Individual energy budgets, life histories and population dynamics in the field

• Award winner: Ben Collen
• Institution: University College London
• Value: ?293,535

Predicting the dynamics of African ecosystems under multiple pressures

National Institute for Health Research

Health Technology Assessment programme

• Award winner: Matt Costa
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: ?1,026,890

UK study of tendo Achilles rehabilitation multicentre randomised clinical trial (UK STAR)

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• Award winner: Frances Bunn
• Institution: University of Hertfordshire
• Value: ?237,895

Managing diabetes in people with dementia: a realist synthesis (DIaMonD)

• Award winner: Louise Allan
• Institution: Newcastle University
• Value: ?513,008

Is it possible to develop a complex intervention to improve the outcome of fall-related injuries in people with dementia?

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• Award winner: Abha Maheshwari
• Institution: University of Aberdeen
• Value: ?1,410,850

E-FREEZE: a randomised controlled trial evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a policy of freezing all embryos followed by thawed frozen embryo transfer, compared with a policy of fresh embryo transfer in women undergoing in vitro fertilization

Royal Society/Academy of Medical Sciences/British Academy

Newton Advanced Scholarships

The scheme provides researchers with a chance to develop the strengths of their research groups through collaboration and reciprocal visits with a UK partner

• Award winner: Helena Cimarosti
• Institution: Federal University of Santa Catarina (host: University of Bristol)
• Value: ?56,500

SUMOylation: novel neuroprotective approach for Alzheimer¡¯s disease?

• Award winner: Fernanda das Neves Costa
• Institution: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (host: Brunel University London)
• Value: ?74,000

Countercurrent chromatography coupled with MS detection: tracking the large-scale isolation of target bioactive compounds to be used as starting material for the synthesis of new drug candidates

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In detail

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Award winner: Stuart Clarke
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: ?370,000

A systematic analysis of global investments in pneumonia research

This project will analyse investments into infectious disease research ¨C particularly pneumonia and maternal and neonatal infections ¨C to better inform funding decisions. The team will look at how funding is allocated relative to the global burden of the disease and assess the outputs and impact of research. ¡°We will quantify the contribution of research funds that these infections receive compared with research involving other pathogens that are important in human health. This will give policymakers a comprehensive picture of where there¡¯s been a lack of funding relative to the impact of the disease and help to set global research investment priorities,¡± says Stuart Clarke, reader in infectious disease epidemiology and honorary consultant in health protection at the University of Southampton.