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Welcome to the first monthly newsletter from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medical Stud-
ies at the University of Kent. As you may imagine, we are proud of our activities here and want to
get the message out that Science in the broadest sense is alive, well and still growing within the
University! Scientists are often criticized as being distant and uncommunicative. Don’t believe it—
only some of us are! The recent success of Café Scientifique (see article on page 3) shows that
there is life outside the lab. However, we can sometimes take it for granted that people know what
we are doing but I hope this Newsletter will provide an additional vehicle to let people know what is
happening in the Faculty. This applies to both colleagues within the University, but also to others
outside the campus. In the near future we will also be updating the Faculty website including an
online version of this Newsletter, but in the meantime, I’d appreciate suggestions for additional
names for our mailing list, images and future articles from colleagues and comments on the News-
letter in general.
Many thanks
Peter Jeffries ([email protected])
V i e w f r o m t h e D e a n ’ s O f f i c e I n s i d e t h i s i s s u e :
M u s i c T e c h -
n o l o g y b u r -
s a r y
2
A c t u a r i a l
S c i e n c e w i n
a c c r e d i t a t i o n
2
C o S M o s p r o -
j e c t a w a r d e d
£ 3 9 8 , 0 5 8
E P S R C g r a n t
2
C a f é S c i e n t -
f i q u e – i s i t
w o r t h t h e
r i s k ?
3
K e n t S t u d e n t
i n K e n y a 4
K e n t P r o f e s -
s o r r e c e i v e s
H o n o r a r y D e -
5
I n t e r n a t i o n a l
V i s i t s 6
O c t o b e r 2 0 0 7
V o l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1
S c i e n c e s @ K e n t
S p e c i a l p o i n t s
o f i n t e r e s t :
• Launch of monthly
Faculty newsletter
• Lectures
• Grant awards
• Published papers
• University Teaching
Prizes
Every month, we would like to publish
good quality, interesting images gener-
ated from work within the Faculty of Sci-
ence, Technology and Medical Studies. To
get us started, we have asked our cross-
Faculty Centre for Biomedical Informatics
to provide a series of images, this first of
which appears here. In future though we
would also appreciate images from other
areas of the Faculty. Please forward suit-
able material to Joanna Walpole
Automated segmentation of MS
lesions
grey matter (red) white matter (blue) MS lesions (green)
This month’s image is the work of Dr Ali Hojjat,
lecturer in Medical Image Computing in the Kent
Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences. Segmen-
tation of brain tissues is vital for understanding and
monitoring the Central Nervous System, i.e. the
brain and the Spinal Cord, diseases and their treat-
ment. KIMHS with collaboration of Katholieke Uni-
versiteit, Leuven, have developed an automatic
segmentation method used to measure Multiple
Sclerosis (MS) lesion volume. The image above
shows segmented lesions and other tissues from
MRI in different colours.
I m a g e o f t h e m o n t h
A little later after the
wound tool removed:
more clots have
formed and are flowing
away. Some larger
clots have formed.
Simulation of a wound
tool punching a hole in
the blood vessel wall.
Chemicals (shown in
green) are released,
causing platelets to
become sticky. Some
small clots can be seen being carried away
downstream.
Music Technology student
Lisa Davies, who is also lead
guitarist for all-girl rock
band The Playgirls, has re-
ceived a special bursary to
the tune of £1,000 from the
Medway branch of the So-
roptimist International Club,
a worldwide organisation
which seeks to advance the
status of women across all
professions, while also serv-
ing the local community.
Mum-of-two Lisa, who hopes
to pursue a career in the
music industry once she
graduates, said she was
delighted to receive the
£1,000 gift. ‘It will enable
me to purchase items for
my music course at Med-
way, and allow me to work
more effectively from
home,’ she said.
A past winner of the Guitar
Technique magazine Young
Guitarist of the Year award,
Lisa was also among the
headline acts at the ArtsFest
event at the University of
Kent in June.
Maya Bangar, president of
Medway Towns Soropti-
mists, said club members
were impressed with Lisa
and were thrilled to be able
to help her during her
studies. Maya Bangar con-
cluded “Lisa is clearly a
woman who is passionate
about both her music and
her academic life at Med-
way. Her talent and her
enthusiasm really stood out
and we had little hesitation
in awarding her one of our
bursaries. I’m sure she has
an exciting career ahead of
her and the club is de-
lighted to be able to play a
small part in that”.
M u s i c T e c h n o l o g y s t u d e n t a t t r a c t s s p e c i a l b u r s a r y
Page 2 V o l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1
T r i p l e p r o g r a m m e a c c r e d i t a t i o n a w a r d f o r A c t u a r i a l S c i e n c e
“This type of
accreditation
arrangement is
relatively new to
the Profession”
Following this year’s application and
subsequent discussions with the Ac-
creditation Panel for programmes in
Actuarial Science, IMSAS is delighted
that three programmes in Actuarial
Science (BSc, PDIP and MSc) have
been accredited.
Under accreditation, an overall aver-
age mark will be determined for each
student based on the total average
marks in the "relevant" modules
within the programme of study with
coursework (if applicable) counting.
Up to now, students have been
awarded exemptions from the UK
Profession's examinations if they
perform to a certain standard in our
own examinations. Essentially, ex-
emptions were granted to students on a sub-
ject by subject basis and the number
awarded per student (which ranged from
zero up to the maximum available under the
programme) was dependent only on exami-
nation results in the relevant modules corre-
sponding to the Profession's subjects.
For students gaining an overall average mark
of 65 or more in the BSC and PDip pro-
grammes and 60 or more in the MSc pro-
gramme, exemption from ALL subjects stud-
ied as part of the programme will be given.
The good news for students who are unable
to gain the average mark for accreditation
purposes is that we will still have the old
exemption agreements in place so exemp-
tions on an individual subject by subject ba-
sis can still be given.
C o S M o s p r o j e c t a w a r d e d £ 3 9 8 , 0 5 8 E P S R C g r a n t
The University of Kent, in collabora-
tion with the University of York, has
been awarded £398,058 by Engineer-
ing and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) to investigate and
develop tools for the simulation of
c o m p l e x s y s t e m s n a m e d
“CoSMoS" (complex systems model-
ling and simulation). The combined
funding for the project, which in-
cludes £144,000 from Microsoft, is
approximately £1.1M. The project
starts in October 2007 and will run
over four years.
The project aims to provide tools to
allow researchers to study, model
and simulate complex systems,
involving millions of individual in-
teracting components. Observed
behaviour from the real world is
used to improve the underlying
models, which are then simulated
and compared to expected results.
Professor Peter Welch and Dr. Fred
Barnes have significant experience
and expertise in the creation of
highly concurrent software systems
using the occam-pi programming
language, involving millions of con-
current processes.
Lisa Davies Music Technology’s
rising young star who is looking
ahead to an exciting career in
music
It was a packed and lively
audience that greeted Profes-
sor Frank Furedi on Tuesday
9th October at Ye Olde Bev-
erlie when he gave his talk on
'When risk becomes every-
thing'. The aim of this dis-
cussion was to explain why
we have become suspicious
of the risk taker and what
this means for our lives in the
future.
Ahead of the talk, Professor
Furedi, a leading sociologist,
author and one of the UK’s
most prominent social com-
mentators, said: ‘These days
virtually every human experi-
ence has become the subject
of risk management. Conse-
quently just about everything
we do comes with a health
warning. But what happens
when everything is repre-
sented as a risk? Do we
stop taking risks or do we
just become disoriented or
confused?’
Thoroughly engaging, Pro-
fessor Furedi took one hour
of questions after his talk.
There was a range of ages
and interests amongst the
audience, 80% of which
were members of the pub-
lic. Organiser, Dominique
Chu said that he had spo-
ken to various people in-
cluding Pfizer staff, a law-
yer and a Risk Consultant.
The next meeting will be
held on Tuesday 13th No-
vember at 7pm at the
regular Café Scientifique
venue, Ye Olde Beverlie.
The speaker will be Dr.
Dan Lloyd from Biosciences
who will talk on the subject
of Kill or cure? The conse-
Professor Griffin’s research
successes have included
the first application of a
chromosomal technique
for diagnosing genetic
disease in embryos only
three days after they have
been conceived.
His most recent award is
£300k from the Biotech-
nology and Biological Sci-
ences Research Council
(BBSRC) for a research
project that will improve
Darren Griffin, an expert in
human fertility and genetic
disease, has been promoted
to Professor of Genetics.
A former research associate
of Professor Sir Robert
Winston, Professor Griffin
joined the Department of
Biosciences as a Reader in
Genetics in 2004. Since then
he has been awarded more
than £2 million in research
grants for projects centred on
the study of chromosomes.
genetic diagnosis in early
development, and one that
will be of particular benefit
to fertility patients under-
going pre-implantation
diagnosis.
Professor Griffin said “I’m
thrilled to be awarded this
honour by the University of
Kent. I see it as a big
‘thank you’ to all the aca-
demics who have helped
me at various stages of my
career”.
C a f é S c i e n t i f i q u e – i s i t w o r t h t h e r i s k ?
F i r s t P r o f e s s o r o f G e n e t i c s f o r K e n t
K e n t I T C l i n i c w i n s T e c h n o l o g y E n t e r p r i s e a w a r d
University’s Canterbury
and Medway campuses,
KITC provides high qual-
ity, low cost IT support,
services and consultancy
to small and medium en-
terprises and micro-
enterprises in the Canter-
bury, East Kent and Med-
way area.
The Clinic is unique in that
consultants are under-
graduate computing stu-
dents, many with indus-
trial and consulting experi-
ence gained through
placements at major or-
ganisations such as Sun
Microsystems and IBM.
Professor Simon Thomp-
son, Director and Head of
the Computing Laboratory
at the University of Kent,
said: “I am delighted the
Clinic has received this
recognition. Student con-
sultants in the Clinic are
giving real benefits to the
local community as well as
equipping themselves with
invaluable experience for a
career in computing and
IT. Up to now, Clinic con-
sultants have been under-
graduates, but this autumn
we began teaching a new
The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) at
the University of Kent has
been awarded Technology
Enterprise Kent’s ‘Enterprise
and Training Award for excel-
lence’ under the category of
IT Support.
The award, which was pre-
sented to David Soud, Co-
ordinator of KITC, on 4th
October, is in recognition of
‘the considerable achieve-
ment of KITC consultants in
delivering the intensive as-
sists on behalf of Medway
Authority in 2006 and 2007’.
Launched in October 2005
and with branches at the
“ Do we stop
taking risks or
do we just
become
disorientated or
confused?”
Page 3 V o l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1
The audience decided it was
worth the risk! Professor Frank
Furedi at Ye Olde Beverlie
from left to right :
Paul Verrion from Kent Enterprise,
David Soud from Kent IT Clinic and
Rodric Yates from IBM (chair of
the KITC Advisory Group).
Professor Darren Griffin
quences of damage to our DNA.
Café Scientifique meets on the
second Tuesday of each month
between 7 and 9pm. Speakers
and abstracts can be found at:-
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/
people/staff/dfc/site/CS/
MSc in IT Consultancy, based in
the KITC”.
In the first event of its kind, over 40
delegates attended the 2-day seminar
on Risk Management and Solvency on
the 5th and 6th of September.
The event organised by the Actuarial
Science Group at Kent marks a signifi-
cant landmark in the University’s devel-
opment in the field of actuarial educa-
tion and research, since in addition to
having run undergraduate degree pro-
grammes since the mid-eighties and
postgraduate programmes since 2002,
it now has an active contribution to
make in a key area of research and
A c t u a r i a l S c i e n c e G r o u p h o l d 2 - d a y s e m i n a r
David Hare delivering his presentation
on solvency.
Adam Oliver, a third year
computer science student,
is spending his summer
working in Kenya helping to
develop an interactive E-
Learning Centre as part of
the International Associa-
tion for the Exchange of
Students for Technical Ex-
perience (IAESTE) scheme.
The brand new E-Learning
Centre is based at Jomo
Kenyatta University, near
Nairobi, the capital of
Kenya. The university has
employed Adam as a Stu-
dent on Attachment and for
the next couple of months
he will be working with Sam
and Issac, co-workers from
the centre.
IAESTE provides opportuni-
ties for paid course-related
vacation training abroad.
Students pay their own
travel and living expenses
but are employed and paid
by the receiving institution.
See www.iaeste.org.uk for
more details.
applications is the 10th
January 2008. Applications
for Faculty Prizes should be
sent to the Dean and appli-
cations for the Barbara
Morris Prize should be
made to Janice Malcolm at
UELT.
Last year’s winner of the
Faculty Prize was Ms Janet
Linington of Computing and
Dan Lloyd of Biosciences.
See next month’s edition
for information on how to
apply.
This year the Faculty will
be offering a teaching prize
of £5,000. This may be
shared if more than one
member of staff fulfil the
criteria for the award.
Prize winners may be con-
sidered for the University’s
submission to the National
Teach ing Fe l l owsh i p
Scheme, which awards
individual prizes of £10,000
and project funding of up
to £200,000.
The closing date for prize
K e n t s t u d e n t h e l p s d e v e l o p i n t e r a c t i v e E - L e a r n i n g C e n t r e i n K e n y a
U n i v e r s i t y T e a c h i n g P r i z e s
“ I wanted to shake my life up
and do something less boring
than the same old thing, the
same as everybody else. It’s
sometimes difficult but the
rewards massively outweigh
the difficulties, anyone that
goes abroad with IAESTE will
come back a better, happier
and stronger person.
I highly recommend it! ”
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Adam, with co-workers Sam
and Isaac, at the E-Learning
centre at Jomo Kenyatta Uni-
versity
development.
The University was delighted to wel-
come leading speakers from the profes-
sion including Nick Dumbreck, the cur-
rent President of the Institute of Actuar-
ies and David Hare, Chief Actuary for
the UK and European Operations of a
leading UK Life assurance, pensions,
investment management and banking
group, as well as many of Europe’s
leading researchers.
Delegates came from as far a field as
Europe, Hong Kong and South Africa.
Dr Dan Lloyd, Biosciences,
winner 2007 Ms Janet Linington, Computing,
winner 2007
K e n t P r o f e s s o r r e c e i v e s H o n o r a r y D e g r e e
Ian Bruce, Professor of
Nanobiotechnology in the
Department of Biosciences,
has received an honorary
doctorate in Industrial Bio-
technology from the Uni-
versità degli Studi di Ur-
bino in Italy.
Professor Bruce was a
professor at the Istituto di
Scienze Chimiche until
2005. The award was
presented to him in
r e c ogn i t i o n o f h i s
contr ibution to the
initiation and development
of nanotechnology during
the time he spent at the
university, in addition to
his work in the areas of
molecular microbiology,
materials synthesis and
surface chemistry.
Professor Bruce was de-
F o r t h c o m i n g L e c t u r e s — O c t o b e r
Page 5 V o l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1
A d v a n c e n o t i c e
W a i n M e d a l L e c t u r e a n d A w a r d
2 0 0 7 A w a r d e e : P r o f e s s o r G r e g o r y L . C h a l l i s
T u e s d a y 1 3 N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 7 , 6 p m , G r i m o n d L e c t u r e T h e a t r e 1
A l l W e l c o m e
The Wain Medal Lecture and Award has been established as an annual event in the University of Kent as a result of a gen-
erous endowment from Mrs Joan Wain and Family. The award commemorates the life work of Professor Louis Wain, CBE,
FRS who is widely regarded as Britain’s most outstanding agricultural chemist of the twentieth century and is made to a
young British scientist doing exceptional research at the interface of between biology and chemistry.
The 2007 awardee of the Wain Medal Lecture is Gregory L Challis who holds the Chair of Chemical Biology in the University
of Warwick. Greg Challis began his career at Imperial College London following which he did research for a PhD with Sir
Jack Baldwin at Oxford. Next he spent two years at John Hopkins University in Baltimore after which he returned to the
UK, first as a research fellow at The John Innes Centre in Norwich, and subsequently was appointed to the Department of
Chemistry at Warwick where he advanced rapidly up the academic tree.
Date Time Speaker and Lecture Title Department Location
29 Oct 4pm Dr Johnathan Spencer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, “Evolution of biosynthetic pathways”
Biosciences BLT 1
30 Oct 4pm Dr Colin Johnson, Computing Laboratory, “Computational Search for Counterex-amples”
Computing S110B
31 Oct 2 pm Dr William Wadsworth, University of Bath, “Photonic Crystal Fibres - Principles
and Applications”
SPS 110
31 Oct 1pm Dean’s Lecture— “Where we are and where we are going” Marlowe LT 1 LT1
Professor Ian Bruce
lighted to receive the
award, he said “It was great
to be honoured in this way
in addition to having the
opportunity to return to a
place in which I worked and
made so many friends. The
award is in recognition not
only of me but of all those
researchers past and pre-
sent with whom I have
worked and collaborated”.
D e p a r t m e n t o f
E l e c t r o n i c s
I n t e r n a t i o n a l V i s i t s
Page 6 V o l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1
Professor Mike Fairhurst attended the inaugural meeting of the Advisory Board of the UK Biometrics Institute
(UKBI), held at Kent, following the launch of the Institute earlier in the year. UKBI was founded by UoK (an initia-
tive originated by Mike Fairhurst and Farzin Deravi, working with Kent Enterprise) but is an organisation involving
most of the UK Universities with a research presence in biometrics, the UK biometrics industry, and a variety of
other groups and agencies, including representatives of relevant Government Departments. It aims to be the rep-
resentative voice for the biometrics community in the UK, bringing together all stakeholders (Universities, industry,
Government, end-users and the public) in biometrics, and also to provide an effective link to the international
community (an MOU has already been signed with the European Biometrics Forum, for example). The UKBI con-
cept has support from across the community and at its inception was given backing by the (then) Minister for Sci-
ence, Lord Sainsbury.
During September, Mike also attended meetings of:
The Government’s Biometrics Assurance Group. Mike is one of two UK academics on this Committee (instigated a
year ago on Parliamentary recommendation) which advises Government on its biometrics programmes (ID cards,
Passports, etc).
The Steering Board of the Knowledge Transfer Network (set up by the former DTI) on Cyber Security.
The Executive Committee of the IET (ex-IEE) Professional Network on Visual Information Engineering.
BRAZIL: Richard Guest of Electronics, attended the 2007 International Conference on Document Analysis and Rec-
ognition held in Brazil, one of the principal events in the document analysis research field. Richard gave a paper
written jointly with Mike Fairhurst describing some of their work on handwriting analysis.
NETHERLANDS, SINGAPORE AND POLAND: Peter Lee attended three international conferences. His first trip took
him to the Netherlands where he presented a paper with his Research Associate, Michael Wisdom at the confer-
ence held in Amsterdam on Field Programmable Logic (FPL07). He also presented papers at the International
Symposium on Integrated Circuits 2007 held in Singapore and the 15th European Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO 2007) held in Poznan, Poland where he also presented a paper.
FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND: Dr Farzin Deravi attended meetings in Paris and Friburg, Switzerland, namely the 3D
Face EU Integrated Project Progress Meeting and the BioSecure EU Network of Excellence Evaluation Workshop
and Final Review Meeting respectively.
SPAIN: Gareth Howells, David Akehurst and Stephen Wood attended the International Workshop on the Interreg
Grant MODEASY in conjunction with Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL 07), Barcelona, Spain.
Gareth led the Workshop and together with David and Stephen presented two papers.
CHINA: Professor Yong Yan continued his programme of visits to China. Yong Yan was appointed a Yangtzi Scholar
at the Tianjin University in 2001 and a Kuang-Piu Guest Professor at the Zhejiang University in 2005, with both
appointments being approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Two visits a year are financed by the universi-
ties.
During his latest visit in September, Yong:-
Chaired a symposium on gas/solids two-phase flow measurement in Tianjin and subsequently guest-edited a spe-
cial issue of Chinese Journal of Scientific Instruments (the most reputable journal in the field of instrumentation in
China).
Met with prospective students at Tianjin who wish to join the Department of Electronics following the signing of the
historic partnership agreement between Kent and Tianjin in April 2007
Gave a research seminar and a series of Research Methodology lectures to postgraduate students at both universi-
ties.
Discussed joint research activities with Chinese colleagues at both universities.
Filed a patent on behalf of University of Kent with the support of a Chinese patent agent as approved by the Enter-
prise Unit.
Forthcoming October visit On 29th October, Professor Ted Parker and Dr John Batchelor are planning to visit Professor Tony Brown at the
University of Manchester to progress collaboration on their joint EPSRC grant – Frequency Selective Structure for
Long Wavelengths.
KENYA: Dr David Oliver was an invited speaker at the African Palliative care Association (APCA)
2nd Palliative care conference - Palliative care in Africa : making it real. The conference took
place in Nairobi from the 19th to the 21st September. http://www.apca.co.ug/index.htm
SOUTH AFRICA: Dr Oliver gave two presentations (1) Ethical issues and communication in
palliative care and (2) Multidisciplinary education in palliative care - a challenge for the future.
He also made a poster presentation ( with V O'Cuinneagian) entitled ‘Palliative care for people
with motor neurone disease in South Africa’.
SWEDEN: Professor Katona has been invited to give a plenary talk at the Swedish Association
for Old Age Psychiatry in Stockholm on 19th October 2007.
Dr Axel Klein will be heading East when he presents his two conference papers this month:-
POLAND: 12 October "Mules or Couriers? -agency and decision making among foreign national
drug traffickers" at the European Society for Social Drug Research, Annual Conference in Cra-
cow.
EGYPT: 22 October "Cultural aspects of khat use" at the International Society for Addiction
Medicine, Annual conference, Cairo.
I n t e r n a t i o n a l V i s i t s
K e n t I n s t i t u t e o f M e d i c i n e a n d H e a l t h S c i e n c e s
Page 7 V o l u m e 1 , I s s u e 1
R e c e n t P u b l i s h e d P a p e r s
E l e c t r o n i c s A. Osoka, M.C. Fairhurst, S. Hoque. A Novel Approach to Quantifying Risk in Biometric Systems Performance, Proc. 4th Visual
Engineering (VIE) Conference, London
C. Rabasse, R.M. Guest, M.C. Fairhurst. A method for the Synthesis of Dynamic Biometric Signature Data, Proc. ICDAR 2007,
Curitiba, Brazil
M. Bacile di Castiglione, R.M. Guest. The Variability of Signatures within Document Examiners' Features, Proc. 4th Visual Engi-
neering (VIE) Conference, London
J. Chapran, C. Ujam, M.C. Fairhurst, R.M. Guest. Task-Related Population Characteristics in Handwriting Analysis, Proc. 4th
Visual Engineering (VIE) Conference, London
T. Scheidat, C. Vielhauer, J. Dittmann, J. Heiinze, M.C. Fairhurst, R.M. Guest, C. Ujam. Age-Related Deployment Issues for
Biometrics: A European Perspective, Research Report, Biosecure Research Grant, IST, European Union
W. Sheng, G. Howells, M. Fairhurst, F. Deravi, A Memetic Fingerprint Matching Algorithm, (2007)IEEE Trans. On Information
Forensics and Security, 2, 402-412
B i o s c i e n c e s Danelle Devenport, Thomas A. Bunch, James W. Bloor, Danny L. Brower & Nicholas H. Brown. Mutations in the Drosphila αPS2
integrin subunit uncover new features of adheasion site assembly (2007) Developmental Biology 308, 294-308
Kerry A. Tappenden, Michael J. Gallimore, Gillian Evans, Ian J. Mackie & David W. Jones. Thrombin generation:a comparison of
assays using platelet-poor and –rich plasma and whole blood samples from healthy controls an patients with a history of venous
thromboembolism. (2007) British Journal of Haematology, 139, 106-112
Khat farmers in Ethiopia
Khat, a herbal stimulant, popu-
lar in parts of Africa
Edited by Joanna Walpole
University of Kent
Marlowe Building
Canterbury
Kent
CT2 7NR
For further information
contact:
01227 82 7833
Peter Lee & Winston Waller-Electronics £44,000 from C-Scope International Limited for a project entitled
“KTP C-Scope”.
Peter Lee & Winston Waller-Electronics £67,044 from Momenta for a project entitled “KTP C-Scope”.
Professor Peter Jeffries-Biosciences £12,810 from East Malling Research for a studentship entitled
“Community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in relation to their functions in agro-
ecosystems”.
Dr Shyqyri Haxha-Electronics £12,000 from The Royal Society for an international joint project with Dr Jung
Jin Hu, South Korea entitled “Novel design of polymer electropic modulators (PMs)”.
Professor Darren Griffin-Biosciences £24,000 from JSR Genetics for a CASE Studentship entitled
“Examination of allelic variation in candidate genes through to encode for fatness”.
Dr Shyqyri Haxha-Electronics £500 from the Royal Academy of Engineering for a project entitled “A novel
design of photonic crystal lens based on negative refractive index”.
Dr Adrian Bonner-KIMHS £340,340 from the Salvation Army for a project entitled “NMES II Development”.
Dr Gary Robinson-Biosciences £202,950 from Sanofi Pasteur for a project entitled “The use of QUeSST
antigens in the development of human vaccines”.
Dr Phil Blower-Biosciences and Dr Stefano Biagini-SPS £97,342 from Heptagon Proof of Concept Fund for a
project entitled “iF-18 Instant Fluorination for PET Radiopharmaceuticals”.
Gavin Topley-Computing £830 from Music for Change for KITC Support.
Professor Mike Fairhurst-Electronics £5,000 from DTI via QinetiQ for a project entitled “Bridging the gap
between research and exploitation”.
Peter Lee-Electronics £79,626 from EPSCR for a project entitled “A study of the use of CMOS vision sys-
tems for continuous, real-time 2D frequency domain measurements using digital sensitive techniques”.
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