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Chancellor Gordon Brown Announces UKIERI Awards |
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What a great opportunity awaits research collaborators in India and the UK! Investigating the cultural and geographical transformation of northwest India between 2000 and 300 BC, from the Collapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise the great Early Historic cities? Study Road Traffic Crashes and Injuries in India and UK? Find out mobile Communications to improve monitoring of heart disease and diabetes?
These are just some of the innovative ideas that have been given the go-ahead and have won the UKIERI Awards. On his first visit to India, Chancellor Of The Exchequer RT Honourable Gordon Brown announced the prestigious UK-India Education and Research Awards to the selected Indian institutions in New Delhi. There are two categories of awards: the major awards which support projects of up to 500,000 Pounds and the UKIERI Standard Awards, growth between £10,000 and “150,000 according to individual financial proposals. A total of over £5 million was awarded to teams from over 70 institutions in the UK and India, in 6 Major and 23 Standard Awards.
The awards bring together the best of Indian and UK institutions and aims to strengthen research and academic ties between renowned centres of learning. These include, for instance Cambridge University and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad, Imperial College with Indian Institute of Science, Reading University with IIT Madras (Chennai) and Nottingham University with Industrial Toxology Research Centre, Lucknow.
“I see UKIERI and the awards we are celebrating today as a critical part of strengthening further still the ties between Britain and India,” Chancellor Brown spoke underlined how “education ties enrich our societies by deepening our awareness and understanding of other cultures and likewise deepening others; awareness and understanding of our own.”
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The 23 Standard Awards were won by:
| Subject |
UK Institution |
Indian Institution |
| Mobile Communications to improve monitoring of heart disease and diabetes |
Prof B Woodward
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Loughborough University |
Dr A L Vyas
Instrument Design and Development Centre
Indian Institute of Technology
New Delhi |
| Knowledge acquisition for textual case-based reasoning |
Dr Nirmalie Wiratunga
School of Computing
The Robert Gordon University
St Andrew Street Aberdeen |
Dr Deepak Khemani
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Chennai |
| Ecology and mechanics of acoustic communication in tree crickets |
Prof. Daniel Robert,
Bionanoscience Group School of Biological Sciences Woodland Road University of Bristol |
Dr. Rohini Balakrishnan Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| G2P4Health: Developing a Human Genotype-To-Phenotype (Gene-Desease) Database that will Facilitate Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine Worldwide |
Prof. Anthony J Brookes
Department of Genetics
University of Leicester |
Pl: Prof. Samir K Brahmachari
[Co-Pls: Dr Debasis Dash, Dr Mitali Mukerji,
Dr Amit K Sinha] Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) Delhi |
| Biomedical Solutions for India and UK: Discovering Next Generation Antiinfectives |
Prof. Andrew David Miller
Imperial College Genetic Therapies Centre, Department of Chemistry Flowers Building, Armstrong Road, Imperial College London |
Institute Director: Dr. J.S. Yadav Principle Researcher: Dr. Ahmed Kamal
Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Hyderabad |
| Environmentally -focuses low cost nanostructured devices |
Prof Jeremy Baumberg
University of Southampton Southampton |
Dr G Vijayaprakash Indian Institute of Technology |
| Study of Road Traffic Crashes and Injuries in India and UK |
Dr. A.M. Hassan Birmingham Automotive Safety Centre Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering School of Engineering Edgbaston, |
Dr. A Chawla Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi |
| Neutrino and the fundamental laws of nature |
Dr Silvia Pascoli, Centre for Particle Theory,
Department of Physics University of Durham |
Dr Shrubabati Goswami
Harish-Chndra Research Institute Allahabad |
| Study of source feature for speech synthesis and speaker recognition |
Dr Simon King
Centre for Seepch Technology Research University of Edinburgh |
Dr S R Mahadeva Prasanna
Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati |
| From the Collapse of Harappan urbanism to the rise the great Early Historic cities: investigating the cultural and geographical transformation of northwest India between 2000 and 300 BC |
Dr. Cameron A. Petrie Research Councils UK Fellow in south Asian Archaeology Department of Archaeology University of Cambridge |
Prof. Himanshu P. Ray, Centre for Historical Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi |
| Multitrophic interactions in the rhizosphere and the management of nematode pests and diseases |
Rhizosphere Biology Programme, Rothamsted Research (RR) |
Prof Hari Shankar Gaur, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi |
| Development of Methodology for Biological Assessment of Ballast Water Management Systems |
Prof. Ehsan Mesbahi Chair of Marine Informatics, School of Marine Science & Technology,Newcastle University, |
Dr. A C Anil National Institute of Oceanography, Goa |
| Micromechanical amplifiers for inertial sensors and signal processors |
Ashwin Seshia, Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge |
GK Anathasuresh, Mechanical Engineering, IIS Banglalore |
| Risk and Regulation: Science and Technology in a Globalised Economy |
Prof lan Scoones, STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex |
Prof. Rajeev Gowda, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore |
| Integrated Smart Antennas for Next Generation MilimetreWave Wireless Communications |
Dr. Charles FreeAdvanced Technology Institute, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences,University of Surrey |
Dr. C.K. Aanandan Department of Electronics Cochin University of Science and Technology Cochin |
| UK-India Network for ll-Vl Sensor Technology |
Dr. P.J. Sellin Department of Physics, School of Electronics & Physical Sciences, University of Surrey |
Prof. Biswajit Ghosh, Advanced Materials & Solar Photovoltaic Division, School of Energy Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata |
| Magnetic nanoparticles for applications in biomedicine and spintronics |
Prof. Mathias Brust, Centre for Nanoscale Science, Dept of Chemistry University of Liverpool |
Dr. B.L.V. Prasad, Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune |
| Nanostructuring of nanofluidic/microfluid devices for enhanced blood filtering and detection of blood analytes associated with biosensors |
Prof. James McLaughlin Nanotechnology and Integrated Bio-Engineering Centre, University of Ulster, Jordanstown Northern Ireland |
Dr. Sushanta K. Mitra, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Powai |
| Cardiovascular Disease; its prevention and origins |
Prof Philip A. Poole-Wilson Cardiac Medicine and International Centre for Circulatory Health (ICCH), Imperial College London, |
Prof. K.Srinath Reddy, Prof & Head Department of Cardiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi |
| Democracy and Children's rights in India and the UK: Law, Institutions, and Outcomes. |
Dr. Todd Landman, Reader, Dept of Govt., Human Rights Centre (HRC), University of Essex |
Prof. Peter Ronald deSOUZA, Co-Director Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) |
| Towards fluctuation-based quantum information processing with semiconductor nanostructures |
Prof Sir Michael Pepper, Semiconductor Laboratory, University of Cambridge |
Dr Arindam Ghosh, Department of Physics, Indian Institiute of Science, Bangalore |
| Impact of Climate change on the Water Cycle and ecosystem functioning at the river basin scale |
Prof. Edward Maltby
Institute for Sustainable Water Integrated Management and Ecosystem Research, University of Liverpool |
Prof. A.K. Gosain Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Dept of Civil Engineering, I.I.T Delhi |
| Interface Science and Engineering |
Prof. Colin D. Bain, Department of Chemistry, University of Durham |
Prof. Sanjay Biswas Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore |
To know more about UKIERI, log on to the UKIERI website.
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