Funding: Neuroscience grants

A selection of grants made through the Neuroscience and Mental Health stream

1 June 2006

Professor Ray Dolan (University College London) – programme grant. The role of emotion in decision making.

Dr Sheriar Hormuzdi (University of Dundee) – project grant. Investigations into the specification of electrical synapses.

Professor Dimitri Kullmann (University College London) – project grant. Development and application of fluorescent use-dependent NMDA receptor ligands.

Professor Peter Bex (Institute of Ophthalmology) – project grant. Perceptual reorganisation in macular disease.

Dr Christopher Hammond (King's College London) – project grant. The genetics of myopia and refractive error: analysis of highly significant linkage loci.

Dr Megan Holmes (University of Edinburgh) – project grant. Prenatal programming of anxiety behaviour by glucocorticoids: a function of 11ß- HSD2 activity in the brain or placenta or both?