The Network Centre provides opportunities for pump-priming funds, equipment grants and travel awards.
Our Peer Review process
All applications for funds are reviewed by the Organising Committee, with conflicts of interest appropriately managed.
You can download pro-formas here and these can be submitted to the Network Coordinator or Administrator when applications open for the year. We’ll update this page with deadline dates once applications are open again for Network funding.
Recently funded projects
In our most recent call for applications, we funded the following projects:
| Title of award | Type | PI | Collaborators | Amount |
| Identification of BACE1-interacting proteins associated with oxidative and metabolic stress in brain endothelial cells | Pump priming | Prof Mike Ashford (Dundee) | Dr Paul Meakin (Leeds) | £4,916 |
| Network analysis of early degenerating circuits in Alzheimer’s disease. | Pump priming | Dr James Ainge (St Andrews) | Dr Brianna Vandrey (Edinburgh) | £3,889 |
| Circulating Retinol binding protein 4 and cognitive health in an ageing cohort from NE Scotland | Pump priming | Dr Chris McNeil (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary) | Prof Peter McCaffery (Aberdeen) | £2,920 |
| Photometry–based in vivo calcium imaging for circuit-based interrogation of Alzheimer’s pathology | Pump priming | Dr Shuzo Sakata (Strathclyde) | None | £2,000 |
| Is histone ubiquitination altered in Alzheimer’s disease? | Pump priming | Dr Gillian Hunter (Glasgow Caledonian) | Dr Fiona Kerr (Glasgow Caledonian) | £2,000 |
| The impact of recurrent mild hypoglycaemia on white matter integrity in a mouse model of Type 1 Diabetes | Pump priming | Dr Alison McNeilly (Dundee) | Prof Karen Horsburgh (Edinburgh) | £2,000 |
| Investigating the neuroprotective actions of cannabidiol on amyloid-β-induced synaptic disruption at hippocampal temporoammonic (TA)-CA1 synapses. | Pump priming | Adham Farah (PhD student, Dundee) |
Dr Gayle Doherty (St Andrews) |
£2,000 |
| Investigating the neuroprotective actions of GPER1 in models of Aβ-mediated neuronal dysfunction | Pump priming | Leigh Clements (PhD student, Dundee) |
Dr Gayle Doherty (St Andrews) |
£2,000 |
| Quantitative proteomic characterisation of primary mouse astrocytes from the cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum | Pump priming | Vanya Metodieva (PhD student, St Andrews) |
Prof Terry Smith (St Andrews) |
£2,000 |
| Developing an in vitro model of disease-associated microglia | Pump priming | Dr Michael Daniels (Postdoc, Edinburgh) | Mizuki Morisaki (St Andrews) |
£1,923 |
| Is Alzheimer’s disease a uniquely human disorder? | Pump priming | Lorena Sordo (PhD student, Edinburgh) |
None | £2,000 |
| Effects of leptin (116–130) fragment on mitochondrial function in AD model | Pump priming | Ying Cheng (PhD student, St Andrews) |
Dr Jenni Harvey (Dundee) | £2,000 |
| Developing combined blood-based biochemical and neuropsychological markers for differential diagnosis of the dementia | Pump priming | Zanib Panni (PhD student, Strathclyde) |
William McGeowan (Strathclyde), Mathew Baker (Strathclyde), Terry Quinn (Glasgow) | £2,000 |
| High-throughput bench-top refrigerated microcentrifuge | Equipment | Dr. Annesha Sil (Aberdeen) | Prof G. Riedel & Prof B. Platt | £2,000 |
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