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Dept of Trade and Industry

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Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he intends to announce awards from round 2 of the Joint Infrastructure Fund. [101685] Mr. Byers: I have today announced jointly with the Wellcome Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council for England details of the awards from round 2 of the Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF). Over £320 million has been awarded to 45 successful applicants across 27 universities across the United Kingdom. The projects awarded funding cover the broad spectrum of science and engineering. They range from projects costing £750,000 to over £30 million. There are a further 3 rounds of the JIF with decision points in March and November 2000 and March 2001. Details of the individual awards announced today are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Applicant Project Professor I. G. Priede Aberdeen Autonomous Marine Environment Research Stations (AutoMERS) Professor P. St. J. Russell Bath Photonic Crystal Fibres: Fabrication, Technology and Applications Professor H. R. Saibil Birkbeck Equipment and Refurbishment for Electron Cryomicroscopy and Protein Crystallography Professor M. N. R. Ashfold Bristol Materials, Physical and Computational Chemistry for the 21st Century Professor R. J. Mair Cambridge Centre for Geotechnical Process and Construction Modelling Professor D. M. Glover Cambridge Cell Biology and Drosophilia Research in the Cambridge University Genetics Department Professor Sir John Gurdon Cambridge Relocation and upgrading of Wellcome CRC Institute Professor P. Sissons Cambridge Biology and Pathogenesis of Virus Infections Professor T. W. Robbins Cambridge Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience Professor D. G. Crighton Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences Professor A. J. Moses Cardiff Production, Evaluation and Applications of Advanced Soft Magnetics Materials and Devices Professor A. I. Lamond Dundee Dundee Centre for High Resolution Imaging in Cell and Molecular Biology Professor R. W. Richards Durham Multi-disciplinary Condensed Matter Chemistry Professor T. D. Jickells UEA Laboratory for Global Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry Dr. K. J. Heywood UEA Sampling Equipment for the UK Marine, Physics and Chemistry Community Professor R. D. Kenway Edinburgh A World-Leading Computing Facility for Simulations of the Strong Interaction Professor P. J. Sadler Edinburgh Edinburgh Protein Interaction Centre (EPIC) Professor N. P. Franks ICSTM General Anaesthesia: From Molecular Actions to Neuronal Pathways Professor M. Van Heel ICSTM An Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Centre for Solving Biopolymer Structures Professor P. McGuffin KCL (Institute of Psychiatry) The Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry Professor M. B. Steer Leeds Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Design and Instrumentation Facility Dr. M. C. Bell Leeds Leeds Health Air Pollution, Noise, Health and Emissions Research Network (LANTERN) Professor P. K. H. Maguire Leicester The Acquisition of Seismic Recording Systems to study "Rifting Processes: Inception, Transition and Spreading" Professor P. P. Allport Liverpool The Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre Professor J. S. Metcalfe Manchester Manchester Federal School Interdisciplinary Faculty for Management Research Professor D. J. Vaughan Manchester Research Centre in Molecular Environmental Science Professor A. J. Lyne Manchester Lovell Telescope--Forward to the 21st Century Professor M. P. Young Newcastle Visual Neuroecology Professor A. Ekert Oxford Interdisciplinary Centre for Quantum Information Processing Dr. A. Cooper Oxford Ancient Biomolecules Centre Professor W. G. Richards Oxford Chemistry Research Laboratory Dr. B. T. Huffman Oxford Tevraton--Quick Access Resources for Computing T-Quarc Professor R. A. North Sheffield Integrated Research in Molecular Life Sciences: co-ordinating Structural Biology, Developmental Genetics, Molecular Physiology and Molecular Microbiology Professor D. J. Read Sheffield Plant Environmental Interactions: Scaling between Genes and Ecosystems Dr. N. J. C. Spooner Sheffield British Underground Facility for Dark Matter and Neutrino Studies Professor M. Bradley Southampton Combinatorial Centre of Excellence Professor M. F. Land Sussex Refurbishment of Sussex Centre for Neuroscience Professor E. A. Hinds Sussex Centre for the Measurement of Particle Electric Dipole Moments Professor P. R. Jonas UMIST An Instrumented Aircraft Facility for Atmospheric Research within the UK University Community Professor L. E. Davis UMIST Electromagnetics Centre for Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Design and Applications Professor J. Collinge UCL Neurodegenerative diseases--from Molecule to Clinic Professor L. K. Borysiewicz Wales (College of Medicine) Centre for Biomedical Research Professor D. Bowles York Creating a New Research Infrastructure for Biosciences Professor S. K. Bhattacharya Warwick Warwick Design and Innovation Research Centre (Innovative Manufacturing Centre Phase 3) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: The JEC approved a total of 45 awards but support for one of these is dependent on a further site visit. Details of this award have therefore not been announced yet.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

340 c466-7W; 101685

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Grants Engineering Science Wellcome Trust

Contains statistics

Yes