Charity Collaborations

 

 
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