Edinburgh Neuroscience

Projects

Projects per year 1999 2013 2014 2015 2016 2029

• 2 Curtailed
• 10 Not started
• 64 Active
• 748 Finished

Projects per year

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  NeuroTox: Prenatal exposure to toxicants and childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and cognitive functions

  Auyeung, B.

  2/10/17 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Prenatal Exposure 100%

• LIFT: Delineating the Neural Mediators of Rheumatoid Arthritis Related Fatigue (LIFT Trial Add-On)

  Wiseman, S. & Wardlaw, J.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/10/17 → 30/09/20

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

• PPLS Pilot Project: Getting ready to remember: Pilot fMRI Study

  Morcom, A.

  1/10/17 → 30/05/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Aviation Employees 100%

• SPRINT-MND/MS: Motor Neurone Disease and Multiple Sclerosis PhD Programme

  Chandran, S., Abrahams, S., Ffrench-Constant, C., Newton, J. & Williams, A.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/09/17 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

• UK Dementia Research Institute

  Hardingham, G., Chandran, S., McColl, B., Spires-Jones, T., Wardlaw, J. & Williams, A.

  Other

  1/09/17 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

  • White Matter 100%
  • Brain 59%
  • Oligodendrocyte 40%
  • Cognitive Tests 40%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain 40%

• Breaking the cycle of cruelty and harm: promoting positive interactions between children and animals by launching a bespoke prevention through education programme for `at risk¿ children

  Williams, J.

  UK-based charities

  1/09/17 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • Cruelty to Animals 100%
  • Qualitative Research 100%
  • Child 100%
  • Qualitative Study 100%
  • Attachment 100%

• Music, Cognition and the Brain ($135,840)

  De Souza, J. & Overy, K.

  1/09/17 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Music Cognition 100%
  • University of Edinburgh 100%
  • Music psychology 50%

• Connecting salt appetite to hypertension in mice with central nervous system deletion of 11¿¿ hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2

  Bailey, M., Holmes, M. & Livingstone, D.

  UK-based charities

  1/09/17 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

  • Salt Intake 100%
  • Glucocorticoid 50%
  • Public Health 50%
  • Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis 50%
  • Stress 50%

• Building a virtual dementia e-cohort using routinely-collected health datasets

  Sudlow, C. & Wilkinson, T.

  Other

  1/08/17 → 31/08/18

  Project: Research

• Developing SFXN3-targeted therapies to prevent neurodegeneration

  Gillingwater, T. & Wishart, T.

  MRC

  1/07/17 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

• PPLS Pilot Project: Forgetting: A forgotten issue?

  Della Sala, S. & Logie, P.

  14/06/17 → 15/06/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• ESRC Impact Grant: The impact of language learning in early dementia on well-being, confidence, and cognitive functions in patients and on the satisfaction and empowerment of the carers

  Bak, T.

  1/06/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Nursing Home 100%
  • Cognitive Function 100%
  • Language Instruction 100%
  • Language Development 100%
  • Language Learning 100%

• ESRC Impact Grant

  Bak, T.

  1/06/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Language Learning 100%
  • Cognitive Function 100%

• The Impact of Puppy Farming on Canine Behaviour and Health

  Williams, J. & Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalss, S. S.

  1/05/17 → 31/12/18

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Canine Behavior 100%
  • Puppy 100%
  • Dog 50%

• IAD Academic Network Fund

  Bak, T., Cram, L., Dunbar, R., Henderson, A., High, C., McLeod, W., MacInnes, J., MacPherson, S. E., Molony, T. & Vega-Mendoza, M.

  1/05/17 → 30/06/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Bilingualism 100%
  • Thematic 100%

• National CJD Research And Surveillance Unit - Histology

  Green, A., Knight, R., Molesworth, A., Pal, S., Smith, C. & Will, B.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/04/17 → 30/01/21

  Project: Research

• Develop sensitive behavioural and neuroimaging markers in detecting cognitive ageing

  Valdes Hernandez, M., Wang, S., Tavares, A. & Holmes, M.

  1/04/17 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Neuroimaging 100%
  • Cognitive Aging 100%

• “Child-Animal Interaction Research Conference: Setting the UK Research Agenda”

  Williams, J.

  1/04/17 → 30/06/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Optimise catFISH technique for studying neuronal networks in memory representation

  Gros, A. & Wang, S.

  1/04/17 → 31/03/18

  Project: Research

• National CJD Research And Surveillance Unit Core Grant

  Green, A., Knight, R., Molesworth, A., Pal, S., Smith, C. & Will, B.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/04/17 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• GluN2A haploinsufficiency: a novel pre-clinical model of epilepsy

  Wyllie, D., Hardingham, G., Kind, P. & Marwick, K.

  UK-based charities

  13/03/17 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• Synaptic Proteins that engage Amyloid Beta in the human brain

  Spires-Jones, T., Chandran, S. & Smith, C.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/17 → 14/08/20

  Project: Research

• LACI-2 Trial

  Wardlaw, J., Cvoro, V., Dennis, M. & Doubal, F.

  UK-based charities

  1/03/17 → 28/02/21

  Project: Research

• Identification of new candidate drugs for treatment of moderate or severe brain injury through automated testing in zebrafish

  Herrgen, L.

  UK-based charities

  1/02/17 → 31/01/20

  Project: Research

• Molecular synapse imaging technology and resources

  Grant, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/02/17 → 1/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Brain 100%
  • Synapse 81%
  • Drive 36%
  • Actin 31%
  • Fragile X Syndrome 31%

• Modelling historical air polution and dementia/cognitive decline - towards a life course approach

  Russ, T. & Dibben, C.

  NERC

  1/02/17 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• Spatial orientation and the brain: identifying the link between neural representations of direction and location

  Wood, E.

  BBSRC

  16/01/17 → 15/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Stimulus 100%
  • Medial Entorhinal Cortex 100%
  • Entorhinal Cortex 100%
  • Hippocampus 100%
  • Association 66%

• Using targeted genome editing to generate novel preclinical rodent models of autism

  Gkogkas, C.

  Non-EU-based charities

  15/01/17 → 14/01/19

  Project: Research

  • Gene Expression 100%
  • Fear Conditioning 100%
  • Memory 100%
  • Ribosome Profiling 100%
  • Gene 80%

• In vivo Dissection of Neuroprotection Using a Novel C. elegans Model of Neurodegeneration

  Doitsidou, M.

  UK-based charities

  10/01/17 → 10/07/19

  Project: Research

• SSI Fellowship: Software Sustainability Institute Fellow

  Pernet, C.

  2/01/17 → 2/03/18

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Reproducibility 100%

• Can subtle changes in global atrophy and the superior frontal gyrus be indicative of the differences between cognitive groups in late adulthood?

  Valdes Hernandez, M.

  1/01/17 → 31/03/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Superior Frontal Gyrus 100%

• On the intelligence of men and women: A systematic review on gender differences on brain MRI structures and connectivity

  Valdes Hernandez, M.

  1/01/17 → 31/03/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Systematic Review 100%
  • Sex Difference 100%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain 100%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging 100%
  • Broca's Area 50%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Quantifying Language Behaviour in Bi-/Multilinguals

  Bak, T.

  1/01/17 → 31/07/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Language Behavior 100%
  • Multilingualism 100%

• Element- Early detection of cognitive disorders such as dementia on the basis of speech analysis

  Russ, T.

  EU government bodies

  1/01/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• Fellowship for Akila Visvanathan: Developing a model for improving communication and shared decision-making after severe stroke.

  Visvanathan, A., Dennis, M., Doubal, F., Lawton, J. & Whiteley, W.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/01/17 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Aptitude 100%
  • Apoplexy 100%
  • Development 100%
  • Stroke 100%
  • Patient 50%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Quantifying Language Switching Behaviour in Bi-/Multilinguals

  Bak, T.

  1/01/17 → 31/07/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Language Switching 100%
  • Switching Behaviour 100%

• Transcriptomic investigation of two models that can either support amyloid seeding or curtail its formation in the brain.

  King, D.

  UK-based charities

  1/12/16 → 30/11/17

  Project: Research

• GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR IN THE EARLY LIFE PROGRAMMING OF CARDIAC RESILIANCE

  Chapman, K., Denvir, M., Gray, G. & Holmes, M.

  MRC

  1/12/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Mouse 100%
  • Glucocorticoid Receptor 80%
  • Fetal Heart 77%
  • Dexamethasone 72%
  • Glucocorticoid 68%

• PPLS Pilot Project: Using NIRS to examine the neural markers of reactive and proactive control in children

  Chevalier, N.

  15/11/16 → 31/07/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Near Infrared Spectroscopy 100%
  • Proactive Control 100%

• BBC Consultancy: making CBBC and CBeebies games more autism-friendly

  Fletcher-Watson, S.

  14/11/16 → 18/11/16

  Project: Non-Funded Commission or Consultancy work

• ESRC Festival of Social Science

  Cariola, L., Schwannauer, M. & Macbeth, A.

  5/11/16 → 12/11/16

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Mental Health 100%

• Control of stem cell proliferation and differentiation by primary cilia in the developing cerebral cortex

  Theil, T.

  BBSRC

  4/11/16 → 3/02/20

  Project: Research

• Fellowship for Sarah McCann: PreclinSR- Increasing clinical translation of experimental stroke research: new approaches to systematic review

  MacLeod, M.

  EU government bodies

  1/11/16 → 31/10/18

  Project: Research

• Plasticity of electrical synapses in neural circuits in vivo

  Busch, E.

  UK-based charities

  1/11/16 → 1/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Animal Models 100%
  • Social Behavior 100%
  • Animal Model Systems 100%
  • Neuropeptide 75%
  • Species 50%

• FOCIA: Fast, Open, Cellular Imaging Analysis toolbox

  Rochefort, N. & Van Rossum, M.

  BBSRC

  17/10/16 → 16/04/18

  Project: Research

• Investigating deleterious signalling between astrocytes and motoneurons in human iPSC-based model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

  Chandran, S.

  10/10/16 → 9/10/19

  Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation

  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell 100%
  • Astrocyte 100%
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 100%

• Research-Led Initiative Fund

  Cariola, L., Schwannauer, M., Prior, S., Lee, B., Georgiadou, L. & Wyatt, J.

  1/10/16 → 31/03/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Is Fractalkine (CX3CL1) a master regulator of remyelination in MS?

  Williams, A.

  UK-based charities

  1/10/16 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• New signaling mechanisms in myelination

  Meijer, D.

  BBSRC

  1/10/16 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • In Vitro 100%
  • Glia 100%
  • Electron Microscopy 100%
  • Neuron 100%
  • Light 100%

• "A Live Pulse": Yik Yak for Understanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment at Edinburgh

  Osborne, N., Bayne, S., Alex, B., Grover, C., Connelly, L. & Tobin, R.

  1/09/16 → 31/08/17

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Social Media 100%
  • Anonymity 54%
  • Undergraduates 50%
  • Teaching 46%
  • Evaluation 46%