2010 Grants
Identification of cellular targets to enhance virotherapy
Lay Title: Enhancing virus killing of cancer cells for the treatment of ovarian cancer
Dr Joanne Morrison, Professor Leonard Seymour and Dr Kerry Fisher (University of Oxford)
£150,797 over 30 months
Eicosanoid networks in endometrial carcinogenesis
Lay Title: The role of lipid-type (fat-like) molecules in cancer of the womb
Dr Nicolas Michel Orsi, Dr. Michele Cummings, Dr. Nafisa Wilkinson, Dr. Philip Burns (St James’s University Hospital, Leeds), Dr. Stuart Barber (University of Leeds) and Professor Anna Nicolaou (University of Bradford)
£250,201 over 30 months
The role of early HPA axis dysfunction and neurosteroids in post-partum depression.
Lay Title: The role of neurosteroids in stress and postnatal depression
Dr Delia Belleli and Professor Jeremy Lambert (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee)
£123,102 over 24 months
Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training to Prevent Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women (PREVPROL)
Lay Title: Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training to Prevent Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women
Professor Suzanne Hagen, Dr. Doreen McClurg (Glasgow Caledonian University), Professor Cathryn Glazener (University of Aberdeen), Dr. Christine Bain (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary), Professor Christine MacArthur (University of Birmingham), Dr. Phil Toozs-Hobson (Birmingham Women's Hospital), Professor Don Wilson, Associate Professor Peter Herbison and Dr Jean Hay-Smith (Dunedin School of Medicine, NZ)
£148,800 over 36 months
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