Wellbeing of Women

2003 Grants

Grants Awarded in 2003

For 2003, Wellbeing of Women has awarded a total of £786,000 to research into the better health of women and their babies. This includes 6 new project research grants, a research training fellowship and a major clinical trial. For further details on each project, please click on the title.

Research Grants
Treatment of mild to moderate gestational hypertension during pregnancy. A randomised controlled trial. Dr Jose Villar, Dr Lelia Duley, Professor Jack Moodley, Dr Derek Tuffnell, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Institute of Health Services, Oxford, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine South Africa Bradford Teaching Hospital £100,000 over 2 years [WellBeing of Women Anniversary Award funding UK trial centre]

Can meta-analysis cope with methodological errors and omissions common in published subfertility intervention studies? Andy Vail, Roseanne McNamee, Hope Hospital, Salford & University of Manchester £78,696 over 3 years.

Mechanisms of the systemic inflammatory response in pre-eclampsia and the HELLP syndrome. Dr Ian Sargent, Professor Christopher Redman, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford £39,934 over 2 years [Recipient of George John Sophian bequest] This research has been published in: Reprod Biomed Online. 2006 Nov;13(5):680-6; Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2006 Oct;11(5):309-16; Trends Immunol. 2006 Sep;27(9):399-404; Eur J Immunol. 2005 Oct;35(10):3054-63.

Detection of chromosome anomalies in the first polar body by CGH and validation in the oocyte and embryo. Professor Joy Delhanty, Dr Joyce Harper, Dr Michael Faed, UCL, London & Ninewells Hospital Medical School Dundee £94,494 over 2 years. [Florence and William Blair-Bell Memorial Fellowship] This research has been published in: Prenat Diagn. 2006 Jan;26(1):71-6

Placental specific insulin-like growth factor-2 expression and its effect on fetal growth. Professor Gudrun Moore, Philip Stanier, Wolf Reik, Miguel Constancia, Imperial College, London & The Babraham Institute, Cambridge £94,720 over 2 years. This research has been published in: Cytogenet Genome Res. 2006;113(1-4):262-70.

The value of predicting restriction of fetal growth and compromise of its wellbeing: Systematic quantitive overviews [meta-analysis] of test accuracy literature. Dr Khalid Khan, Aravinthan Coomarasamy, Professor S Robson, Professor J Kleijnen, Birmingham Women's Hospital , University of Newcastle & University of York £99,824 over 2 years [National Birthday Trust Fund]. This research has been published in: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2007, 7:3.

Clinical Trial

The Release Trial: a randomised trial of umbilical vein oxytocin versus placebo for the treatment of retained placenta. Dr Andrew Weeks, Liverpool Women's Hospital £149,680 over 3 years.

Research Training Fellowship

Regulation of uterine contractility by small GTP binding proteins. Dr Jonathan Lartey, St Michael's Hospital, Bristol £128,409 over 3 years. This research has been published in: Biol Reprod. 2006 Sep;75(3):452-61.

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