Professor Peter Budd and Dr Martin Attfield are the successful winners of a Micromeritics Instrument donation scheme competition:

‘ASAP 2050 Xtended Pressure Sorption Analyser’

Professor Mike Turner has been awarded an industrial contract from Sapient Sensors:

‘Functionalised CNTs for sensors’ – £58,666.

Professor Lucio Piccirillo and Professor Stephen Yeates have been awarded an STFC Mini IPS Award:

‘Commercialisaton of a high performance SML series electron beam resist for nano lithograph’ – £117,470

Dr Mary Ryan, Dr Neil Burton, Dr Nick Evans, Professor Kath Morris, Prof Fred Mosselmans and Dr Roy Wogelius have been awarded an EPSRC Joint RCEP/NDA Geological disposal of nuclear waste grant:

‘Atomic and Macro-scale Studies of Surface Processes: Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Surface Reactivity and Radionuclide Binding Mechanisms’ – £911,139

Professor Francis Livens, Dr Louise Natrajan, Dr Sven Koehler, Dr Nick Bryan, Professor Simon Pimblott, and Dr Sarah Heath have been awarded an EPSRC Equipment grant:

‘Core UK equipment base for characterisation and analysis of highly active radioactive materials’ – £1,578,222

Professor Jason Micklefield has been awarded an EPSRC Chemical Biology Collaborative Networks grant:

‘Manchester Chemical Biology Network’ – £148,330

Professor David Procter has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research project grant:

‘Asymmetric copper-catalysis in the first total synthesis of the taedolidols’ – £104,000

Dr Louise Natrajan has been awarded a Royal Society Research grant:

‘Two-photon near infra-red absorbing and emitting metal dyes for 3D optical biological imaging’ – £14,956

Dr Cinzia Casiraghi has been awarded a Royal Society Research grant:

‘Synthesis and characterisation of molybdenum and tungsten dichalcogenide analogues of graphene’ – £15,000

Professor Jason Micklefield and Dr Lu Shin Wong have been awarded a BBSRC responsive mode grant:

‘Bioorthogonal site-selective protein immobilisation and labelling’ – £475,116

Professor Jonathan Clayden and Dr Simon Webb have been awarded a BBSRC responsive mode grant:

‘Conformational switching for trans-membrane communication’ – £609,437

Professor Jonathan Clayden has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced grant:

‘Conformational Communication and Control (ROCOCO)’ – £1,940,886

Professor Nick Turner and Professor Sabine Flitsch have been awarded a European Commission FP7 Large scale collaborative project, which they are co-ordinating:

‘Biotechnology for 'greening' the chemical industry - Industrial bioprocesses for fine and speciality chemicals and intermediates (BIONEXGEN)’ – £944,756.80

Professor David Collison, Professor Eric McInnes and Professor Richard Winpenny have been awarded the EPSRC EPR tender:

‘An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Research Facility and Service’ – £3,990,784

Professor Mike Turner and Professor Roy Goodacre have been awarded a European Commission FP7 Small/Medium collaborative project co-ordinated by the Tyndale National Institute, University College Cork:

‘Development of a Common Sensor Platform for the Detection of IEDs (CommonSense)’ – £438,470

Professor Sabine Flitsch has been awarded a European Commission FP7 Small/Medium collaborative project, which she is co-ordinating:

‘Tools for the identification and the detection of biomarkers in clinical samples and patients (GlycoBioM)’ – £1,224,376

Professor Nick Turner has been awarded a CSIRO Flagship Collaboration grant in collaboration with Australia National University:

‘Biotechnical solutions to Australia's transport energy and greenhouse gas challenges’ – £446,669

Professor Kath Morris, Dr Nick Bryan and Professor David Vaughan have been awarded an industrial contract from AREVA:

‘Interaction of radium with environmentally relevant iron phases’ – £169,050

Professor Sabine Flitsch, Professor Nick Goddard, Professor Peter Fielden, Professor Peter Gardner, and Professor John Vickermann have been awarded an EPSRC Cross-disciplinary feasibility account 2010 grant:

‘MIB CDFA - Application of novel imaging techologies towards quantitative analytical phenotyping of single cells’ – £201,216

Professor Mike Turner and Professor Peter Budd have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership contract in collaboration with Victrex:

‘Development of PolyArylEtherKetone polymers containing cross-linkable groups’ – £144,454

Professor Sabine Flitsch has been awarded an industrial contract from BASF:

'Research on transglycosylases’ – £287,875

Professor Michael Preus, Professor Simon Pimblott, Dr James Marrow and Dr Joao Fonseca have been awarded an EPSRC responsive mode grant:

‘Irradiation effects on flow localisation in Zirconium Alloys’ – £318,896

Professor David Procter has been awarded an EPSRC responsive mode grant:

'Chemistry Cascades: Synthesis of Prostratin Analogues for Evaluation Against HIV' - £287,875

Professor Gareth Morris and Dr Mathias Nilsson have been awarded an EPSRC responsive mode grant:

'Pure Shift Proton NMR: A Resolution of the Resolution Problem?' - £482,450

Professor Paul O'Brien has been awarded a Royal Society/Leverhulme Trust Africa grant:

'Developing Internationally Competitive Research on Solar Cell Materials at KNUST' – £150,000

Professor Mike Turner and Professor Roy Goodacre have been awarded an EU-FP7 STREP grant, co-ordinated by the Tyndall Institute:

'Rapid, affordable photonic crystal sensors for point of care disease diagnostics (RAPID)' – £358,891

Dr Neil Dixon has been awarded a RSE/BBSRC Enterprise fellowship:

‘RNA switch technology - gene expression control’ – £44,045

Professor Stephen Yeates has been awarded a METRC award ion collaboration with Molnlycke

‘pH responsive behaviour of anionicaly stablised polyisoprene synthetic rubber’ – £100,000

Professor Robert Dryfe and Dr Sven Schroeder have been awarded an EPSRC NSF/Materials grant:

'Materials World Network: The Designer Nanoparticle' – £320,348

Professor Katherine Morris, Dr Nick Bryan, Professor Jon Lloyd and Professor Francis Livens have been awarded an NERC Consortium grant:

'Biogeochemical Gradients and RADionulcide transport (BIGRAD)' – £1,721,038

Professor Robert Dryfe, Dr Ian Kinloch, Dr Ernie Hill, and Dr Konstantin Novoselov have been awarded an EPSRC responsive mode grant:

‘Graphene electrochemistry: understanding fundamental electron transfer at graphite electrodes’ – £414,733

Professor Gordon Jayson and Dr John Gardiner have been awarded an MRC Strategic grant:

‘Development of Anti-Angiogenic Oligosaccharides’ – £820,890

Professor Francis Livens, Dr Clint Sharrad, Professor Simon Pimblott, Dr Sven Koehler,Dr Sven Schroder, Professor Andrews Masters and Dr Megan Jobson have been awarded an EPSRC Nuclear Fission consortia grant:

'MBASE: The molecular basis of advanced nuclear fuel separations' – £683,653

Dr Sarah Heath has been awarded a NDA studentship:

'Actinide colloids and nanoparticles: relevance to legacy waste, clean up and geological disposal' – £85,700

Professor John Sutherland has been awarded an EPSRC responsive mode grant:

'Systems Chemistry in the Prebiotic Synthesis of RNA' – £624,641

Professor Jim Thomas has been awarded an EPSRC responsive mode grant:

'Convergent synthesis of bryostatins' – £209,019

Professor Stephen Yeates has been awarded a ieMRC EPSRC award:

'Roll-to-roll vacuum processed carbon based electronics (RoVaCBE)' – £289,685

Dr Claire Eyers has been awarded a BBSRC First Investigator grant:

'Re-Writing HIStory: Identification and Characterisation of the Human Histidine Phosphoproteome' – £336,443

Professor Eric McInnes, Professor Richard Winpenny, and Professor David Collison have been awarded an EPSRC responsive mode grant:

'Learning how to manipulate spins: EPR studies of anti-ferromagnetic rings and linked rings towards quantum computation' – £335,261

Dr Mathias Nilsson and Professor Gareth Morris have been awarded an EPSRC responsive mode grant:

'Matrix-Assisted DOSY' – £332,583

Professor Nicholas Turner has been awarded a Framework 7 grant:

'Amine synthesis through biocatalytic cascades (AMBIOCAS)' – £566,753

Prof Mike Turner has been awarded a NSF/EPSRC Materials grant:

'NHC-PdCatalytic Systems (HNC = N-Heterocyclic Carbene) for the Synthesis of Novel Triarylamine Polymers Containing Fused Heterocyclic Rings' – £312,287

Dr Peter Budd and Dr F Siperstein have been awarded a NSF/EPSRC Materials grant:

'The subtle balance between rigidity and swelling in functional nanoporous polymers' – £320,475

Professor P O’Brien has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust/Royal Society Africa grant:

'Development of Chemicals and Useful Products for Tanzanian Industries' –£150,000