Charity Organisation | Fellowship/Project | Total Funding | Lead PI | HEI/NHS | Project Title |
Action Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy UK | Clinical Academic Fellowship | £225,000 | Dr S Joseph | Glasgow | Secondary Osteoporosis and Its Therapy in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – ScOT-DMD |
Action for M.E. | PhD Studentship | £90,000 | Prof Chris Ponting | University of Edinburgh | Biomedical Research in Myalgic Encephalitis |
Action Medical Research | Research Project | £136,730 | Dr R Hamilton | Glasgow | Vision in children born to opioid-dependent methadone-maintained mothers |
Action Medical Research | Research Project | £42,800 | Dr J Cleland | Strathclyde | Ultrasound Visual Feedback to diagnose and treat speech disorders in children with cleft lip and palate |
Alzheimer’s Research UK | Research Project | £450,000 | Dr T Spires-Jones | Edinburgh | Targeting tau to prevent A-beta mediated synapse degeneration in Alzheimer’s |
Arthritis Research UK | Research Project | £149,518 | Dr K Martyn | Aberdeen | A feasibility study for Walk with ease UK – a community based programme for adults with arthritis and MSK conditions |
Breast Cancer Now | Research Project | £200,000 | Dr S Tait | Glasgow | Role of MCL-1 in Breast Cancer development and maintenance |
Breast Cancer Now | Research Project | £72,000 | Professor M Porteous | Edinburgh | Optimising treatment focussed genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer |
Breast Cancer Now | PhD Studentship | £96,000 | Dr K Blyth | Glasgow | Investigating the tumour suppressor function of RUNX1 in breast cancer |
Breast Cancer Now | Research Project | £110,000 | Professor Gerald Humphris | Sr Andrews | Development and feasibility of a communication package for therapeutic radiographers to manage emotional talk with breast cancer patients in treatment |
British Lung Foundation | Research Project | £286,000 | Dr D Murphy | Glasgow | A potential and unexpected use for existing drugs in the treatment of unresponsive lung cancer |
Crohn’s & Colitis in Childhood Cure Chrohn’s & Colitis | Research Project | £475,000 | Dr C Lees | Edinburgh | Prognostic effect of environmental factors in Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis |
Fight for Sight | Research Project | £200,000 | Dr Heather Wilson | University of Aberdeen | Using potential antigen-specific regulatory T cells as a novel therapeutic strategy to ameliorate autoimmune uveitis |
Kidney Research UK | Postdoctoral fellowship | £190,000 | Dr Katharine Mylonas | Edinburgh | Driving Kidney repair through modulation of senescent cells and macrophages |
Kidney Research UK | Postdoctoral Fellowship | £190,000 | Dr Rashida Lathan | Glasgow | Regenerative cells in reducing ischaemia reperfusion injury in kidney transplantation |
Marie Curie | Research Project | £192,000 | Professor S Murray | Edinburgh | Supporting people with palliative and end of life care needs ‘out of hours’ a mixed methods study |
Marie Curie | Research Project | £120,000 | Professor M Fallon | Edinburgh | Exercise and nutritional rehabilitation in patients with advanced cancer – a single randomised open label feasibility study |
Motor Neurone Disease Assoc MND Scotland | Clinical Academic Fellowship | £225,000 | Dr D Leighton | Edinburgh | Population based genotype-phenotype correlation to stratify incident cases of patients with MND in Scotland from 2015-2017 |
MND Scotland | Clinical Academic Fellowship | £240,000 | Dr Liz Elliot | Edinburgh | Understanding the pathogenesis of disease progression in sporadic ALS |
Muscular Dystrophy UK | Clinical Academic Fellowship | £216,000 | Dr M Hamilton | Glasgow | Structural CNS changes, neuropsychological impairment and sleep disturbance in myotonic dystrophy |
Pancreatic Cancer Scotland | Contribution to PhD Programme | £125,000 | Professor Owen Sansom | Glasgow | Pancreatic Cancer UK future leaders academy |
Pancreatic Cancer UK | Research Project | £75,000 | Mr N Jamieson | Glasgow | Using perioperative pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound to enable precision medicine for the management of pancreatic cancer |
Pancreatic Cancer UK | Research Project | £74,500 | Dr D Grose | NHS GGC | The correlation of hypoxic imaging using PET F-MISO with pathological specimens in patients undergoing radiotherapy |
Parkinson’s Uk | Clinical Fellowship | £240,000 | Julie Jones | Robert Gordon | Excercise provision for people with Parkinson’s – feasibility study of the PDConnect Programme |
Prostate Cancer Uk | Research Project | £500,000 | Dr G Nabi | Dundee | Multiparametric MRI characterisation and guided biopsy of the prostrate in men suspected of having prostrate cancer |
PSP Association | Clinical Academic Fellowship | £195,000 | Dr D Swallow | Aberdeen | Improving diagnostic and care pathways in progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration |
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust | Research Pooling Funding | £150,000 – per project limit of £15,000 | Professor Frank Gunn-Moore | Pan-Scotland | Scottish Seedcorn Fund for Neurological Research |
Scottish Huntington’s Assoc RS MacDonald Trust | Clinical Academic Fellowship | £200,000 | Dr D Rae | Aberdeen | Towards improvement in care delivery in Huntington’s Disease |
Stroke Association | Research Project | £440,000 | Dr T Quinn | Glasgow | Improving our assessment, prediction and understanding of the neuropsychological consequences of stroke |
Stroke Association | Clinical Lectureship | £200,000 | Dr T Quinn | Glasgow | Understanding the emotional, thinking and memory problems that can follow a stroke |
Wellbeing of Women | Research Project | £62,000 | Professor S Nelson | Glasgow | Identifying best practice in IVF |
Wellbeing of Women | Research Project | £147,000 | Dr S Camerson | Edinburgh | Post Placental Intrauterine Contraception (PPIUC): A Health Service Evaluation |