Funding news Associate Professor Dawn-Marie Walker; Faculty of Health Sciences Development of Prototype Device for Minimally Invasive Delivery of Osteospheres for Treatment of Osteoporosis National Institute of Health Research, £3,600 over 27 months Associate Professor Dawn-Marie Walker; Faculty of Health Sciences Early electrical stimulation to the wrist extensors and wrist flexors to prevent post-stroke complications of pain and contractures in the paretic arm – a feasibility study National Institute of Health Research, £6,486 over 36 months
Faculty of Humanities Professor Nicky Marsh; English The History of Financial Advice AHRC, £361,583 over three years Professor Ulrike Meinhof; Modern Languages Madagascar in the World: the impact of music on global concerns AHRC, £80,172 over 12 months Professor Alistair Pike; Archaeology Whole Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium Leprae Strains from Medieval Ireland British Academy, £1,200 over 12 months Dr Francis Wenban-Smith, Archaeology Baker’s Hole - Next Stage Analysis (phase 1) Historic England, £8,887 over seven months
Dr Roxana-Octavia Carare; Clinical and Experimental Sciences Cholinergic innervation and perivasuclar clearance Alzheimer’s Research Trust, £88,439 over 36 months Dr Ying Cheong; Human Development and Health Retrospective National Institute of Health Research, £9,830 over 42 months Dr Myron Christodoulides; Clinical and Experimental Sciences Reverse vaccinology of Brachyspira genomes for the development of universal vaccines Houghton Trust, £5,000 over 12 months Professor Howard Clark; Clinical and Experimental Sciences The design of respiratory medical devices to minimise paediatric lung and skin injury National Institute of Health Research, £93,096 over 24 months Professor Cyrus Cooper; Human Development and Health Lisa Newington NIHR fellowship application National Institute of Health Research, £284,343 over 36 months Professor Mark Cragg; Cancer Sciences Cytokine release assessment of antibody combinations Cancer Research UK, £20,118 over five months Ms Gillian Susanne Crawford; Cancer Sciences Communication about genomic testing: additional findings and evolving clinical practice Health Education England Wessex, £24,686 over 12 months
Faculty of Medicine
Dr Andy Davies and Professor Gareth Griffiths; Southampton CTU, Cancer Sciences Development grant for a Phase I/II of MPDL3280A + GEMOX in patients with non-hodgkins lymphoma. Roche Pharmaceuticals, £100,000 over 12 months
Dr Raymond Allan; Clinical and Experimental Sciences NAMRIP BBSRC, £18,128 over three months
Professor Timothy Elliott; Cancer Sciences Wolfson / Royal Society Research Merit Award Royal Society, £25,000 over 60 months
Professor Aymen Al-Shamkhani; Cancer Sciences Dr Adam Geraghty; Primary Care and Population Sciences Mechanism of action of immunostimulatory anti-CD27 mAb in cancer SPCR Round 11 Celldex Research Corporation, £105,000 over 12 months National Institute of Health Research, £47,917 over 12 months Dr Mary Barker; Human Development and Health Improving nutritional status in pregnant teenagers MRC, £132,996 over 15 months Dr Mary Barker; Human Development and Health BOOST: trial of cereal bars and supplements in young pregnant women – qualitative study Kings College London, £30,998 over 12 months Dr Mary Barker; Human Development and Health Southampton Pregnancy Intervention for the Next Generation (SPrING): PhD studentship Danone Research B.V., £29,000 over 24 months
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Research and Enterprise e-News
Professor Mark Hanson; Human Development and Health Epigenetic Biomarkers and Determinants of Cardiovascular Risk in Children British Heart Foundation, £1,179,307 over 60 months Dr Parwez Hossain; Clinical and Experimental Sciences Ophthalmology Major Research Grant, ‘Resolving the mechanisms of host inflammasome activation in microbial keratitis’ Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, £49,934 over 12 months