Medico-legal Services

Research Funding

Research Funding (Non-industry only- * indicates where not PI)

Medical Research Council Antiepileptic Drug Withdrawal Study

£190,000                                                                                                       1984 – 1991

 

Medical Research Council  – Predicting seizure recurrence:  effectiveness of counselling patients using a practical statistical model

£8,000                                                                                                           1990 – 1991

 

Mersey Regional Research Committee  – Quality of life in epilepsy

£10,000                                                                                                         1991

 

Transport and Road Research Laboratory, British Neurological Survey of Driving

£90,000                                                                                                         1990 – 1993

 

The Wellcome Trust  – Health Services Research in Epilepsy.

£92,000                                                                                                         1991 – 1993

 

MRC Study of Early Epilepsy and Single Seizures

£1,352,000                                                                                                    1993 – 2002

 

MRC – Relationship between lesion location and functional deficit in the amnesic syndrome(with Prof. Andrew Mayes)*

£550,000                                                                                                       1994 – 1999

 

MRC – Individual patient meta-analysis in epilepsy

£75,000                                                                                                         1998 – 2000

 

NHS R&D Core Support for Cochrane Epilepsy Review Group

£875,000                                                                                                       1998 – 2009

 

NHS R&D HTA Comparison of Standard and New Antiepileptic Drugs (SANAD)

£1,349,657                                                                                                    1998 – 2006

 

Epilepsy Research Foundation – Neurodevelopment in children of women with epilepsy*

£200,000                                                                                                       1999 – 2001

 

National Institutes of Health –  Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs*

$310,000                                                                                                       2003-2005

 

National Institutes of Health  – Developing approaches to reducing stigma in epilepsy*

$200,000                                                                                                        2004-2005

 

Department of Health – Pharmacogenetics of Gabergic mechanisms of benefit and harm in epilepsy

£776,500                                                                                                         2004-2007