National Institute for Health Research

Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme

• Award winner: Roman Hovorka
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: ?1,310,328

Effect of closed loop insulin delivery from onset of diabetes in youth on progression of type 1 diabetes

• Award winner: Gary Middleton
• Institution: University of Birmingham
• Value: ?697,470

A double blind, placebo-controlled, randomised phase II study of Pemetrexed and Cisplatin with and without Ruxolitinib in malignant pleural mesothelioma

• Award winner: Graham Cooke
• Institution: Imperial College London
• Value: ?1,691,167

Stratified Treatment OPtimisation for HCV-1 (STOP-HCV 1)

• Award winner: Philip Asherson
• Institution: King¡¯s College London
• Value: ?1,302,928

Randomised controlled trial of the short-term effects of OROS-methylphenidate on ADHD symptoms and behavioural outcomes in young male prisoners with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Marian Dawkins
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: ?194,114

Chickens on camera: practical application and commercialisation of the optical flow system for improved poultry welfare and health

• Award winner: Andrea Munsterberg
• Institution: University of East Anglia
• Value: ?520,877

Unravelling the microRNA-chromatin remodelling circuitry that drives myogenesis

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• Award winner: Denis Headon
• Institution: University of Edinburgh
• Value: ?353,327

Developmental tuning of Turing patterning

Leverhulme Trust

Research project grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Dmitry Skryabin
• Institution: University of Bath
• Value: ?138,083

Solitons and frequency combs in micro-ring resonators

• Award winner: Karen Spencer
• Institution: University of St Andrews
• Value: ?107,920

Social networking: understanding the neuroendocrine basis of gregarious behaviour

• Award winner: Susan Perkin
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: ?241,665

Electric and magnetic field effects on confined liquids

In detail

Award winner: Catherine Whistler
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: ?135,265

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Transforming our understanding of Raphael with eloquence in drawing as a research theme

This project aims to gain new understanding of the renowned Renaissance artist. Today, Raphael¡¯s work is broadly viewed as ¡°remote, bland or irrelevant¡±, writes Catherine Whistler, supernumerary fellow in art history at St John's College, Oxford, in the current Leverhulme Trust newsletter. ¡°Current scholarship presents Raphael as an accomplished interpreter and courtier who managed an efficient workshop, with drawing as a pragmatic stepping-stone towards the final, polished work of art. By exploring the experimental character of drawing and its rhetorical possibilities, I want to ¡®make strange¡¯ an over-familiar artist and to stimulate new thinking about drawing in and beyond art history.¡± Dr Whistler and her collaborator Ben Thomas, an art historian at the University of Kent, are taking Raphael¡¯s ¡°eloquence¡± as a guiding concept and an interpretative tool in order to unlock a new understanding.