Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants

Sciences

• Award winner: Hon Wai Lam
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: ?180,351

Remote functionalisation by the chain walking of allylmetal species

• Award winner: James Hodge
• Institution: University of Bristol
• Value: ?210,844

Optogenetic imaging and remote control of fly electrical clock

• Award winner: Diego G¨®mez-Nicola
• Institution: University of Southampton
• Value: ?236,866

Understanding the dynamics and diversity of microglia in the healthy and ageing brain

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Sergio Sanchez
• Institution: Northumbria University
• Value: ?100,447

Cost-effective temperature adaptive Cu-based shape memory seals through the synergistic effect of co-microalloying and cooling rate control

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• Award winner: Buddhapriya Chakrabarti
• Institution: Durham University
• Value: ?1,034,680

Molecular migration in complex matrices: towards predictive design of structured products

• Award winner: Marco Marengo
• Institution: University of Brighton
• Value: ?722,093

Novel hybrid heat pipe for space and ground applications

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Research grants

• Award winner: Veronique Azuara
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: ?526,029

Trafficking, storage and timely release of lipids: unfolding the fundamental mechanisms underlying metabolic reprogramming in pluripotent stem cells

• Award winner: Sinead English
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: ?284,735

Epidemiological consequences of reproductive senescence in a long-lived vector

• Award winner: Ildiko Kemenes
• Institution: University of Sussex
• Value: ?695,885

Updating of memories during memory consolidation

In detail

Leverhulme Trust

Award winner: Geoffrey Evatt

Institution: University of Manchester

Value: ?258,599

The lost meteorites of Antarctica

This project aims to discover a lost hoard of meteorites, which reside, the team has hypothesised, just a few centimetres below the surface of Antarctica¡¯s remote blue-ice regions. ¡°Antarctica is the best place on earth for collecting meteorites,¡± Geoffrey Evatt, senior lecturer in applied mathematics at the University of Manchester, told Times ÖйúAƬ. ¡°However, iron meteorites account for around 0.5% of the collected specimens on the Antarctic continent, as compared to the proportion of 5.5% collected elsewhere on earth. As such, a significant number of iron meteorites appear to be ¡®missing¡¯ from the Antarctic record.¡± Dr Evatt and his team hope to find new regions of Antarctica that hold meteorites on their surface, and then, using wide metal detectors, search for the sub-surface layer of iron meteorites. ¡°We shall then carefully extract them and bring them back to the UK for examination,¡± he said. ¡°Each meteorite contains valuable information [about] the formation of the solar system. In particular, iron meteorites help us to understand the formation of planets (because iron meteorites used to form the core of planetissimals ¨C small planets that were later destroyed). Our retrieved samples will help greatly in that regard.¡±