Funding: Physiological Sciences

Several new awards have been made under the Wellcome Trust's Physiological Sciences funding stream, including:

Professor Guy Rutter (Imperial College London) has been awarded a programme grant to study how beta cells in the pancreas sense changes in glucose concentration and respond by releasing insulin.

Also with programme grant funding, Professor Keith Frayn (University of Oxford) will examine why the deposition of fat in the legs and buttocks appears to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, while accumulation of fat in the abdomen increases risk.

Finally, Professor Andrew Tinker (University College London) has been awarded a programme grant to study how the flow of potassium ions across the cell membrane of cardiac cells is modulated to control heart rate.