IMPERIAL COLLEGE Charities

Professor H. Morris, Pounds 226,336 from the British Heart Foundation (identification, biochemical characteristics and physiological relevance of a new nitric oxide synthase inhibitor present in increased amounts in the hypothalamus of the hypotensive); Dr D. Smith, Pounds 636,712 from the Wellcome Trust (regulation, structure and function of infective stage proteins of Leishmania); Dr C. Coutelle, Pounds 54,000 from the Cystic Fibrosis Trust (model system for gene therapy of hepatobiliary disease in cystic fibrosis);

Professor D. Sheridan and Dr C. Fry, Pounds 99,917 from the British Heart Foundation (cellular basis of abnormal action potential conduction in left ventricle hypertrophy); Professor R. Spence and Mr P. Cheung, Pounds 90,000 from Sony Corporation (behaviour modelling of integrated circuits); Dr H. ApSimon, Pounds 457,033 from Department of the Environment (analysis of optimal pollution abatement strategies within UNECE); Professor G. Pasvol, Pounds 217,704 from the Wellcome Trust (centre for research in clinical tropical medicine);

Research contracts

Professor J. Dolly, Pounds 112,500 from Allergan Incorporated (application of botulinum neurotoxins in the clinical treatment of movement disorders); Professor V. Gibson, Pounds 133,000 from BP Chemicals Ltd (new polymerisation catalyst systems); Professor R. Hobbs, Pounds 65,000 from British Steel plc (plastic design of steel sheet piling);

Research grants

Dr C. Soutis and Professor G. Davies, Pounds 68,879 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (patch repair of composite structures using low-energy current systems); Professor J. Higgins, Pounds 75,672 from the EPSRC (polymer interfaces); Dr R. Leatherbarrow, Pounds 182,700 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (improved methods for identifying lead components for combinatorial libraries); Professor A. Barrett, Pounds 86,150 from EPSRC (synthesis and characterisation of cluster star, ribbon and sheet porphyrazine polymers); Dr D. Butler, Pounds 108,148 from EPSRC (local water conservation, reuse and renovation;

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combined grey water and rainwater recycling); Dr N. Buenfeld, Pounds 65,091 from EPSRC (healing cracks in concrete); Drs R. Jardine and D. Potts, Pounds 94,042 from EPSRC (modelling the effects of soil brittleness and anisotropy in new offshore foundation problems); Dr S. Hughes and Professor P. Sever, Pounds 57,145 from the Medical Research Council (role of thrombospondin as a regulator of human vascular smooth muscle cell growth and function); Dr S. Thon, Pounds 95,796 from the MRC (computer-assisted image analysis of hypertensive retinal vascular architecture); Dr I. Hodkinson, Pounds 217,475 from EPSRC (relation algebras of action and indeterminacy); Professors S. Abramsky, T. Maibaum and Drs A. Edalat, S. Vickers, I. Phillips, M. Smyth and P. Taylor, Pounds 783,883 from EPSRC (foundational structures for computer science);

Professor D. Gabbay, Pounds 104,058 from EPSRC (labelled deductive system for natural language understanding); Professor T. Maibaum, Pounds 151,506 from EPSRC (advanced fellowship for Dr P. Malacari: game semantics for programming languages); Drs R. Syms and T. Tate and Prof H. Dorey, Pounds 93,932 from EPSRC (micro machined quadruple mass spectrometer); Dr K. Scrivener, Pounds 104,945 from EPSRC (new slag-based concrete); Professor A. Smith, Pounds 138,792 from EPSRC (advanced fellowship for Dr A. Gogolin: quantum impurity problems and transport phenomena in small transport devices); Professor J. Whitelaw and W. Jones and Dr A. Heyes, Pounds 264,605 from EPSRC (improved design method for gas-turbine combustors with emphasis on temperature distributions and low NOx); Dr G. Foster, Pounds 94,457 from the MRC (identification and characterisation of interferon receptor accessory molecules that interact with interferon); Dr J. Monjardino, Pounds 122,101 from MRC (cell and molecular virology of hepatitis C virus/dengue type 4 chimaeric particles); Dr S. Knight, Pounds 79,935 from MRC (gene targeting dendritic cells); Professor S. Franks, Pounds 88,064 from MRC (molecular genetics of hyperandrogenism in polycystic ovary syndrome).

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European funds

Dr K. Stelle, Pounds 75,989 from CEC (construction of local operators analysis of correlation functions in Liouville and Toda theories: fellowship for Mr J. Schnittger); Drs J. Hassard and R. Smith and Professor D. Binnie, Pounds 69,879 from EPSRC (molecular imaging in diamond (MIDIA)); Drs J. Quenby, T. Sumner, W. Jones and Professor M. Rowan-Robinson, Pounds 3,058 from Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (galactic dark matter search: 1995 to 1999).