Welcome to the first monthly newsletter from the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medical Stud-

ies at the University of Kent. As you may imagine, we are proud of our activities here and want to

get the message out that Science in the broadest sense is alive, well and still growing within the

University! Scientists are often criticized as being distant and uncommunicative. Don’t believe it—

only some of us are! The recent success of Café Scientifique (see article on page 3) shows that

there is life outside the lab. However, we can sometimes take it for granted that people know what

we are doing but I hope this Newsletter will provide an additional vehicle to let people know what is

happening in the Faculty. This applies to both colleagues within the University, but also to others

outside the campus. In the near future we will also be updating the Faculty website including an

online version of this Newsletter, but in the meantime, I’d appreciate suggestions for additional

names for our mailing list, images and future articles from colleagues and comments on the News-

letter in general.

Many thanks

Peter Jeffries (P.Jeffries@kent.ac.uk)

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S c i e n c e s @ K e n t

S p e c i a l p o i n t s

o f i n t e r e s t :

• Launch of monthly

Faculty newsletter

• Lectures

• Grant awards

• Published papers

• University Teaching

Prizes

Every month, we would like to publish

good quality, interesting images gener-

ated from work within the Faculty of Sci-

ence, Technology and Medical Studies. To

get us started, we have asked our cross-

Faculty Centre for Biomedical Informatics

to provide a series of images, this first of

which appears here. In future though we

would also appreciate images from other

areas of the Faculty. Please forward suit-

able material to Joanna Walpole

(J.L.Walpole@kent.ac.uk).

Automated segmentation of MS

lesions

grey matter (red) white matter (blue) MS lesions (green)

This month’s image is the work of Dr Ali Hojjat,

lecturer in Medical Image Computing in the Kent

Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences. Segmen-

tation of brain tissues is vital for understanding and

monitoring the Central Nervous System, i.e. the

brain and the Spinal Cord, diseases and their treat-

ment. KIMHS with collaboration of Katholieke Uni-

versiteit, Leuven, have developed an automatic

segmentation method used to measure Multiple

Sclerosis (MS) lesion volume. The image above

shows segmented lesions and other tissues from

MRI in different colours.

I m a g e o f t h e m o n t h

A little later after the

wound tool removed:

more clots have

formed and are flowing

away. Some larger

clots have formed.

Simulation of a wound

tool punching a hole in

the blood vessel wall.

Chemicals (shown in

green) are released,

causing platelets to

become sticky. Some

small clots can be seen being carried away

downstream.

Music Technology student

Lisa Davies, who is also lead

guitarist for all-girl rock

band The Playgirls, has re-

ceived a special bursary to

the tune of £1,000 from the

Medway branch of the So-

roptimist International Club,

a worldwide organisation

which seeks to advance the

status of women across all

professions, while also serv-

ing the local community.

Mum-of-two Lisa, who hopes

to pursue a career in the

music industry once she

graduates, said she was

delighted to receive the

£1,000 gift. ‘It will enable

me to purchase items for

my music course at Med-

way, and allow me to work

more effectively from

home,’ she said.

A past winner of the Guitar

Technique magazine Young

Guitarist of the Year award,

Lisa was also among the

headline acts at the ArtsFest

event at the University of

Kent in June.

Maya Bangar, president of

Medway Towns Soropti-

mists, said club members

were impressed with Lisa

and were thrilled to be able

to help her during her

studies. Maya Bangar con-

cluded “Lisa is clearly a

woman who is passionate

about both her music and

her academic life at Med-

way. Her talent and her

enthusiasm really stood out

and we had little hesitation

in awarding her one of our

bursaries. I’m sure she has

an exciting career ahead of

her and the club is de-

lighted to be able to play a

small part in that”.

M u s i c T e c h n o l o g y s t u d e n t a t t r a c t s s p e c i a l b u r s a r y

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T r i p l e p r o g r a m m e a c c r e d i t a t i o n a w a r d f o r A c t u a r i a l S c i e n c e

“This type of

accreditation

arrangement is

relatively new to

the Profession”

Following this year’s application and

subsequent discussions with the Ac-

creditation Panel for programmes in

Actuarial Science, IMSAS is delighted

that three programmes in Actuarial

Science (BSc, PDIP and MSc) have

been accredited.

Under accreditation, an overall aver-

age mark will be determined for each

student based on the total average

marks in the "relevant" modules

within the programme of study with

coursework (if applicable) counting.

Up to now, students have been

awarded exemptions from the UK

Profession's examinations if they

perform to a certain standard in our

own examinations. Essentially, ex-

emptions were granted to students on a sub-

ject by subject basis and the number

awarded per student (which ranged from

zero up to the maximum available under the

programme) was dependent only on exami-

nation results in the relevant modules corre-

sponding to the Profession's subjects.

For students gaining an overall average mark

of 65 or more in the BSC and PDip pro-

grammes and 60 or more in the MSc pro-

gramme, exemption from ALL subjects stud-

ied as part of the programme will be given.

The good news for students who are unable

to gain the average mark for accreditation

purposes is that we will still have the old

exemption agreements in place so exemp-

tions on an individual subject by subject ba-

sis can still be given.

C o S M o s p r o j e c t a w a r d e d £ 3 9 8 , 0 5 8 E P S R C g r a n t

The University of Kent, in collabora-

tion with the University of York, has

been awarded £398,058 by Engineer-

ing and Physical Sciences Research

Council (EPSRC) to investigate and

develop tools for the simulation of

c o m p l e x s y s t e m s n a m e d

“CoSMoS" (complex systems model-

ling and simulation). The combined

funding for the project, which in-

cludes £144,000 from Microsoft, is

approximately £1.1M. The project

starts in October 2007 and will run

over four years.

The project aims to provide tools to

allow researchers to study, model

and simulate complex systems,

involving millions of individual in-

teracting components. Observed

behaviour from the real world is

used to improve the underlying

models, which are then simulated

and compared to expected results.

Professor Peter Welch and Dr. Fred

Barnes have significant experience

and expertise in the creation of

highly concurrent software systems

using the occam-pi programming

language, involving millions of con-

current processes.

Lisa Davies Music Technology’s

rising young star who is looking

ahead to an exciting career in

music

It was a packed and lively

audience that greeted Profes-

sor Frank Furedi on Tuesday

9th October at Ye Olde Bev-

erlie when he gave his talk on

'When risk becomes every-

thing'. The aim of this dis-

cussion was to explain why

we have become suspicious

of the risk taker and what

this means for our lives in the

future.

Ahead of the talk, Professor

Furedi, a leading sociologist,

author and one of the UK’s

most prominent social com-

mentators, said: ‘These days

virtually every human experi-

ence has become the subject

of risk management. Conse-

quently just about everything

we do comes with a health

warning. But what happens

when everything is repre-

sented as a risk? Do we

stop taking risks or do we

just become disoriented or

confused?’

Thoroughly engaging, Pro-

fessor Furedi took one hour

of questions after his talk.

There was a range of ages

and interests amongst the

audience, 80% of which

were members of the pub-

lic. Organiser, Dominique

Chu said that he had spo-

ken to various people in-

cluding Pfizer staff, a law-

yer and a Risk Consultant.

The next meeting will be

held on Tuesday 13th No-

vember at 7pm at the

regular Café Scientifique

venue, Ye Olde Beverlie.

The speaker will be Dr.

Dan Lloyd from Biosciences

who will talk on the subject

of Kill or cure? The conse-

Professor Griffin’s research

successes have included

the first application of a

chromosomal technique

for diagnosing genetic

disease in embryos only

three days after they have

been conceived.

His most recent award is

£300k from the Biotech-

nology and Biological Sci-

ences Research Council

(BBSRC) for a research

project that will improve

Darren Griffin, an expert in

human fertility and genetic

disease, has been promoted

to Professor of Genetics.

A former research associate

of Professor Sir Robert

Winston, Professor Griffin

joined the Department of

Biosciences as a Reader in

Genetics in 2004. Since then

he has been awarded more

than £2 million in research

grants for projects centred on

the study of chromosomes.

genetic diagnosis in early

development, and one that

will be of particular benefit

to fertility patients under-

going pre-implantation

diagnosis.

Professor Griffin said “I’m

thrilled to be awarded this

honour by the University of

Kent. I see it as a big

‘thank you’ to all the aca-

demics who have helped

me at various stages of my

career”.

C a f é S c i e n t i f i q u e – i s i t w o r t h t h e r i s k ?

F i r s t P r o f e s s o r o f G e n e t i c s f o r K e n t

K e n t I T C l i n i c w i n s T e c h n o l o g y E n t e r p r i s e a w a r d

University’s Canterbury

and Medway campuses,

KITC provides high qual-

ity, low cost IT support,

services and consultancy

to small and medium en-

terprises and micro-

enterprises in the Canter-

bury, East Kent and Med-

way area.

The Clinic is unique in that

consultants are under-

graduate computing stu-

dents, many with indus-

trial and consulting experi-

ence gained through

placements at major or-

ganisations such as Sun

Microsystems and IBM.

Professor Simon Thomp-

son, Director and Head of

the Computing Laboratory

at the University of Kent,

said: “I am delighted the

Clinic has received this

recognition. Student con-

sultants in the Clinic are

giving real benefits to the

local community as well as

equipping themselves with

invaluable experience for a

career in computing and

IT. Up to now, Clinic con-

sultants have been under-

graduates, but this autumn

we began teaching a new

The Kent IT Clinic (KITC) at

the University of Kent has

been awarded Technology

Enterprise Kent’s ‘Enterprise

and Training Award for excel-

lence’ under the category of

IT Support.

The award, which was pre-

sented to David Soud, Co-

ordinator of KITC, on 4th

October, is in recognition of

‘the considerable achieve-

ment of KITC consultants in

delivering the intensive as-

sists on behalf of Medway

Authority in 2006 and 2007’.

Launched in October 2005

and with branches at the

“ Do we stop

taking risks or

do we just

become

disorientated or

confused?”

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The audience decided it was

worth the risk! Professor Frank

Furedi at Ye Olde Beverlie

from left to right :

Paul Verrion from Kent Enterprise,

David Soud from Kent IT Clinic and

Rodric Yates from IBM (chair of

the KITC Advisory Group).

Professor Darren Griffin

quences of damage to our DNA.

Café Scientifique meets on the

second Tuesday of each month

between 7 and 9pm. Speakers

and abstracts can be found at:-

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/

people/staff/dfc/site/CS/

MSc in IT Consultancy, based in

the KITC”.

In the first event of its kind, over 40

delegates attended the 2-day seminar

on Risk Management and Solvency on

the 5th and 6th of September.

The event organised by the Actuarial

Science Group at Kent marks a signifi-

cant landmark in the University’s devel-

opment in the field of actuarial educa-

tion and research, since in addition to

having run undergraduate degree pro-

grammes since the mid-eighties and

postgraduate programmes since 2002,

it now has an active contribution to

make in a key area of research and

A c t u a r i a l S c i e n c e G r o u p h o l d 2 - d a y s e m i n a r

David Hare delivering his presentation

on solvency.

Adam Oliver, a third year

computer science student,

is spending his summer

working in Kenya helping to

develop an interactive E-

Learning Centre as part of

the International Associa-

tion for the Exchange of

Students for Technical Ex-

perience (IAESTE) scheme.

The brand new E-Learning

Centre is based at Jomo

Kenyatta University, near

Nairobi, the capital of

Kenya. The university has

employed Adam as a Stu-

dent on Attachment and for

the next couple of months

he will be working with Sam

and Issac, co-workers from

the centre.

IAESTE provides opportuni-

ties for paid course-related

vacation training abroad.

Students pay their own

travel and living expenses

but are employed and paid

by the receiving institution.

See www.iaeste.org.uk for

more details.

applications is the 10th

January 2008. Applications

for Faculty Prizes should be

sent to the Dean and appli-

cations for the Barbara

Morris Prize should be

made to Janice Malcolm at

UELT.

Last year’s winner of the

Faculty Prize was Ms Janet

Linington of Computing and

Dan Lloyd of Biosciences.

See next month’s edition

for information on how to

apply.

This year the Faculty will

be offering a teaching prize

of £5,000. This may be

shared if more than one

member of staff fulfil the

criteria for the award.

Prize winners may be con-

sidered for the University’s

submission to the National

Teach ing Fe l l owsh i p

Scheme, which awards

individual prizes of £10,000

and project funding of up

to £200,000.

The closing date for prize

K e n t s t u d e n t h e l p s d e v e l o p i n t e r a c t i v e E - L e a r n i n g C e n t r e i n K e n y a

U n i v e r s i t y T e a c h i n g P r i z e s

“ I wanted to shake my life up

and do something less boring

than the same old thing, the

same as everybody else. It’s

sometimes difficult but the

rewards massively outweigh

the difficulties, anyone that

goes abroad with IAESTE will

come back a better, happier

and stronger person.

I highly recommend it! ”

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Adam, with co-workers Sam

and Isaac, at the E-Learning

centre at Jomo Kenyatta Uni-

versity

development.

The University was delighted to wel-

come leading speakers from the profes-

sion including Nick Dumbreck, the cur-

rent President of the Institute of Actuar-

ies and David Hare, Chief Actuary for

the UK and European Operations of a

leading UK Life assurance, pensions,

investment management and banking

group, as well as many of Europe’s

leading researchers.

Delegates came from as far a field as

Europe, Hong Kong and South Africa.

Dr Dan Lloyd, Biosciences,

winner 2007 Ms Janet Linington, Computing,

winner 2007

K e n t P r o f e s s o r r e c e i v e s H o n o r a r y D e g r e e

Ian Bruce, Professor of

Nanobiotechnology in the

Department of Biosciences,

has received an honorary

doctorate in Industrial Bio-

technology from the Uni-

versità degli Studi di Ur-

bino in Italy.

Professor Bruce was a

professor at the Istituto di

Scienze Chimiche until

2005. The award was

presented to him in

r e c ogn i t i o n o f h i s

contr ibution to the

initiation and development

of nanotechnology during

the time he spent at the

university, in addition to

his work in the areas of

molecular microbiology,

materials synthesis and

surface chemistry.

Professor Bruce was de-

F o r t h c o m i n g L e c t u r e s — O c t o b e r

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A d v a n c e n o t i c e

W a i n M e d a l L e c t u r e a n d A w a r d

2 0 0 7 A w a r d e e : P r o f e s s o r G r e g o r y L . C h a l l i s

T u e s d a y 1 3 N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 7 , 6 p m , G r i m o n d L e c t u r e T h e a t r e 1

A l l W e l c o m e

The Wain Medal Lecture and Award has been established as an annual event in the University of Kent as a result of a gen-

erous endowment from Mrs Joan Wain and Family. The award commemorates the life work of Professor Louis Wain, CBE,

FRS who is widely regarded as Britain’s most outstanding agricultural chemist of the twentieth century and is made to a

young British scientist doing exceptional research at the interface of between biology and chemistry.

The 2007 awardee of the Wain Medal Lecture is Gregory L Challis who holds the Chair of Chemical Biology in the University

of Warwick. Greg Challis began his career at Imperial College London following which he did research for a PhD with Sir

Jack Baldwin at Oxford. Next he spent two years at John Hopkins University in Baltimore after which he returned to the

UK, first as a research fellow at The John Innes Centre in Norwich, and subsequently was appointed to the Department of

Chemistry at Warwick where he advanced rapidly up the academic tree.

Date Time Speaker and Lecture Title Department Location

29 Oct 4pm Dr Johnathan Spencer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, “Evolution of biosynthetic pathways”

Biosciences BLT 1

30 Oct 4pm Dr Colin Johnson, Computing Laboratory, “Computational Search for Counterex-amples”

Computing S110B

31 Oct 2 pm Dr William Wadsworth, University of Bath, “Photonic Crystal Fibres - Principles

and Applications”

SPS 110

31 Oct 1pm Dean’s Lecture— “Where we are and where we are going” Marlowe LT 1 LT1

Professor Ian Bruce

lighted to receive the

award, he said “It was great

to be honoured in this way

in addition to having the

opportunity to return to a

place in which I worked and

made so many friends. The

award is in recognition not

only of me but of all those

researchers past and pre-

sent with whom I have

worked and collaborated”.

D e p a r t m e n t o f

E l e c t r o n i c s

I n t e r n a t i o n a l V i s i t s

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Professor Mike Fairhurst attended the inaugural meeting of the Advisory Board of the UK Biometrics Institute

(UKBI), held at Kent, following the launch of the Institute earlier in the year. UKBI was founded by UoK (an initia-

tive originated by Mike Fairhurst and Farzin Deravi, working with Kent Enterprise) but is an organisation involving

most of the UK Universities with a research presence in biometrics, the UK biometrics industry, and a variety of

other groups and agencies, including representatives of relevant Government Departments. It aims to be the rep-

resentative voice for the biometrics community in the UK, bringing together all stakeholders (Universities, industry,

Government, end-users and the public) in biometrics, and also to provide an effective link to the international

community (an MOU has already been signed with the European Biometrics Forum, for example). The UKBI con-

cept has support from across the community and at its inception was given backing by the (then) Minister for Sci-

ence, Lord Sainsbury.

During September, Mike also attended meetings of:

The Government’s Biometrics Assurance Group. Mike is one of two UK academics on this Committee (instigated a

year ago on Parliamentary recommendation) which advises Government on its biometrics programmes (ID cards,

Passports, etc).

The Steering Board of the Knowledge Transfer Network (set up by the former DTI) on Cyber Security.

The Executive Committee of the IET (ex-IEE) Professional Network on Visual Information Engineering.

BRAZIL: Richard Guest of Electronics, attended the 2007 International Conference on Document Analysis and Rec-

ognition held in Brazil, one of the principal events in the document analysis research field. Richard gave a paper

written jointly with Mike Fairhurst describing some of their work on handwriting analysis.

NETHERLANDS, SINGAPORE AND POLAND: Peter Lee attended three international conferences. His first trip took

him to the Netherlands where he presented a paper with his Research Associate, Michael Wisdom at the confer-

ence held in Amsterdam on Field Programmable Logic (FPL07). He also presented papers at the International

Symposium on Integrated Circuits 2007 held in Singapore and the 15th European Signal Processing Conference

(EUSIPCO 2007) held in Poznan, Poland where he also presented a paper.

FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND: Dr Farzin Deravi attended meetings in Paris and Friburg, Switzerland, namely the 3D

Face EU Integrated Project Progress Meeting and the BioSecure EU Network of Excellence Evaluation Workshop

and Final Review Meeting respectively.

SPAIN: Gareth Howells, David Akehurst and Stephen Wood attended the International Workshop on the Interreg

Grant MODEASY in conjunction with Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL 07), Barcelona, Spain.

Gareth led the Workshop and together with David and Stephen presented two papers.

CHINA: Professor Yong Yan continued his programme of visits to China. Yong Yan was appointed a Yangtzi Scholar

at the Tianjin University in 2001 and a Kuang-Piu Guest Professor at the Zhejiang University in 2005, with both

appointments being approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Two visits a year are financed by the universi-

ties.

During his latest visit in September, Yong:-

Chaired a symposium on gas/solids two-phase flow measurement in Tianjin and subsequently guest-edited a spe-

cial issue of Chinese Journal of Scientific Instruments (the most reputable journal in the field of instrumentation in

China).

Met with prospective students at Tianjin who wish to join the Department of Electronics following the signing of the

historic partnership agreement between Kent and Tianjin in April 2007

Gave a research seminar and a series of Research Methodology lectures to postgraduate students at both universi-

ties.

Discussed joint research activities with Chinese colleagues at both universities.

Filed a patent on behalf of University of Kent with the support of a Chinese patent agent as approved by the Enter-

prise Unit.

Forthcoming October visit On 29th October, Professor Ted Parker and Dr John Batchelor are planning to visit Professor Tony Brown at the

University of Manchester to progress collaboration on their joint EPSRC grant – Frequency Selective Structure for

Long Wavelengths.

KENYA: Dr David Oliver was an invited speaker at the African Palliative care Association (APCA)

2nd Palliative care conference - Palliative care in Africa : making it real. The conference took

place in Nairobi from the 19th to the 21st September. http://www.apca.co.ug/index.htm

SOUTH AFRICA: Dr Oliver gave two presentations (1) Ethical issues and communication in

palliative care and (2) Multidisciplinary education in palliative care - a challenge for the future.

He also made a poster presentation ( with V O'Cuinneagian) entitled ‘Palliative care for people

with motor neurone disease in South Africa’.

SWEDEN: Professor Katona has been invited to give a plenary talk at the Swedish Association

for Old Age Psychiatry in Stockholm on 19th October 2007.

Dr Axel Klein will be heading East when he presents his two conference papers this month:-

POLAND: 12 October "Mules or Couriers? -agency and decision making among foreign national

drug traffickers" at the European Society for Social Drug Research, Annual Conference in Cra-

cow.

EGYPT: 22 October "Cultural aspects of khat use" at the International Society for Addiction

Medicine, Annual conference, Cairo.

I n t e r n a t i o n a l V i s i t s

K e n t I n s t i t u t e o f M e d i c i n e a n d H e a l t h S c i e n c e s

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R e c e n t P u b l i s h e d P a p e r s

E l e c t r o n i c s A. Osoka, M.C. Fairhurst, S. Hoque. A Novel Approach to Quantifying Risk in Biometric Systems Performance, Proc. 4th Visual

Engineering (VIE) Conference, London

C. Rabasse, R.M. Guest, M.C. Fairhurst. A method for the Synthesis of Dynamic Biometric Signature Data, Proc. ICDAR 2007,

Curitiba, Brazil

M. Bacile di Castiglione, R.M. Guest. The Variability of Signatures within Document Examiners' Features, Proc. 4th Visual Engi-

neering (VIE) Conference, London

J. Chapran, C. Ujam, M.C. Fairhurst, R.M. Guest. Task-Related Population Characteristics in Handwriting Analysis, Proc. 4th

Visual Engineering (VIE) Conference, London

T. Scheidat, C. Vielhauer, J. Dittmann, J. Heiinze, M.C. Fairhurst, R.M. Guest, C. Ujam. Age-Related Deployment Issues for

Biometrics: A European Perspective, Research Report, Biosecure Research Grant, IST, European Union

W. Sheng, G. Howells, M. Fairhurst, F. Deravi, A Memetic Fingerprint Matching Algorithm, (2007)IEEE Trans. On Information

Forensics and Security, 2, 402-412

B i o s c i e n c e s Danelle Devenport, Thomas A. Bunch, James W. Bloor, Danny L. Brower & Nicholas H. Brown. Mutations in the Drosphila αPS2

integrin subunit uncover new features of adheasion site assembly (2007) Developmental Biology 308, 294-308

Kerry A. Tappenden, Michael J. Gallimore, Gillian Evans, Ian J. Mackie & David W. Jones. Thrombin generation:a comparison of

assays using platelet-poor and –rich plasma and whole blood samples from healthy controls an patients with a history of venous

thromboembolism. (2007) British Journal of Haematology, 139, 106-112

Khat farmers in Ethiopia

Khat, a herbal stimulant, popu-

lar in parts of Africa

Edited by Joanna Walpole

University of Kent

Marlowe Building

Canterbury

Kent

CT2 7NR

For further information

contact:

J.L.Walpole@kent.ac.uk

01227 82 7833

Peter Lee & Winston Waller-Electronics £44,000 from C-Scope International Limited for a project entitled

“KTP C-Scope”.

Peter Lee & Winston Waller-Electronics £67,044 from Momenta for a project entitled “KTP C-Scope”.

Professor Peter Jeffries-Biosciences £12,810 from East Malling Research for a studentship entitled

“Community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in relation to their functions in agro-

ecosystems”.

Dr Shyqyri Haxha-Electronics £12,000 from The Royal Society for an international joint project with Dr Jung

Jin Hu, South Korea entitled “Novel design of polymer electropic modulators (PMs)”.

Professor Darren Griffin-Biosciences £24,000 from JSR Genetics for a CASE Studentship entitled

“Examination of allelic variation in candidate genes through to encode for fatness”.

Dr Shyqyri Haxha-Electronics £500 from the Royal Academy of Engineering for a project entitled “A novel

design of photonic crystal lens based on negative refractive index”.

Dr Adrian Bonner-KIMHS £340,340 from the Salvation Army for a project entitled “NMES II Development”.

Dr Gary Robinson-Biosciences £202,950 from Sanofi Pasteur for a project entitled “The use of QUeSST

antigens in the development of human vaccines”.

Dr Phil Blower-Biosciences and Dr Stefano Biagini-SPS £97,342 from Heptagon Proof of Concept Fund for a

project entitled “iF-18 Instant Fluorination for PET Radiopharmaceuticals”.

Gavin Topley-Computing £830 from Music for Change for KITC Support.

Professor Mike Fairhurst-Electronics £5,000 from DTI via QinetiQ for a project entitled “Bridging the gap

between research and exploitation”.

Peter Lee-Electronics £79,626 from EPSCR for a project entitled “A study of the use of CMOS vision sys-

tems for continuous, real-time 2D frequency domain measurements using digital sensitive techniques”.

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