CBCU Research

Research grants awarded

  • NHS Research Capacity Development  –  £340 000  (2006-2009)
    Cancer data analysis, interpretation and delivery
  • NHS Information Authority  –  £31 000  (2004)
    Development and evaluation of the schema national Cancer Registration Dataset standard

  • Department of Health  –  £22 000  (2004)
    The development of an online and paper-based resource to support the public understanding of cause of death

  • Department of Health  –  £167 000  (2004–2006)
    Funds to support the national IT infrastructure for the training schools in histopathology

  • Regional Postgraduate Deanery  –  £65 000  (2002–2004)

    Support for a learning technologist is histopathology (with Alison Marker, Addenbrooke’s Hospital NHS Trust)

  • Workforce Development Confederation  –  £26 000  (2003)
    The development of a website to support cross-cultural training in clinical practice

  • Cambridge–MIT Institute  –  £220 000  (2002–2003)
    The development of an open-source learning management system

  • Cambridge University  –  £213 000  (2001–2003)
    Funds to support HEFCE Learning and Teaching Strategy

  • Cambridge–MIT Institute  –  £68 000  (2001–2002)
    Technical infrastructure survey to support e-learning

  • Hewlett-Packard Foundation  –  £187 000  (2001–2002)
    Collaborative learning environments using hand-held devices

  • Pathology Modernisation Fund  –  £120 000  (2001–2002)
    The development of a national web-based ophthalmic pathology reporting system (with Brian Clarke, Moorfield’s Eye Hospital)

  • Li- Hutchison Telecom  –  £140 000  (2000–2003)
    The Li-Hutchison Fellowship in Biomedical Computing – to investigate the application of mobile phone technologies in healthcare

  • Pathology Modernisation Fund  –  £86 000  (2000–2001)
    The development of the ‘Virtual Double Headed Microscope’ – a national resource for diagnostic telepathology (with Peter Furness, Leicester Royal Infirmary)

  • HEFCE Capital Infrastructure Grant  –  £210 000  (1999–2002)
    The deployment of an online teaching environment throughout Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust

  • Health Information Core Collaboration Group  –  £39 000  (1999–2000)
    The development of distributed content management software for web-based clinical guidelines (through CBCL)

  • Cambridge University Press  –  £150 000 (ongoing)  (1999–2005)
    Support of the internet-based journal Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine

  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and BMA  –  £240 000 / year  (1998–2005)
    The development of an internet-accessible version of the British National Formulary (partly with CBCL)

  • Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE)  –  £62 000  (1998)
    A smartcard-accessible, secure database for web-based clinical resources

  • NHS Executive, Anglia and Oxford Region, Project Grant  –  £48 960  (1998–2000)
    The development and evaluation of a web-based system using hybrid symbolic/neurocomputing architectures for the interpretation of flow cytometric data in leukaemia and lymphoma

  • Cable and Wireless Ltd  –  £21 000  (1997–1998)
    The development and implementation of an internet-based telemedicine link for emergency medical support on the Island of Montserrat, Eastern Caribbean (with Dr P Baxter, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge)

  • Marmaduke Shield Fund, Cambridge University  –  £7500  (1996)
    Automated MCQ marking in biological sciences courses

  • Sun MicroSystems  –  £20 000 equivalent  (1995)
    Donated SparcStation 20 computer for the development of a computer model of skin differentiation

  • Joint Information Systems Committee  –  £50 000  (1994–1996)
    An online image collection for teaching (with Dr TDK Brown, Department of Pathology)