Appointments
1976-85 Member of Steering Committee, School of Cognitive Sciences, Edinburgh University.
1977-82 Member of Committee of the British Society for Developmental Biology.
1991 Appointed University Fellow, Edinburgh University
1995-2000 Treasurer, British Society for Developmental Biology
2000 Member of Council, the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE): specialist advisor in preclinical sciences
2004 Member (currently chair) Finnish Academy Biology Research Grant Panel
2006- Member S African Bioinformatics Research Grant Panel
Editorial Boards1986-88 Member of the Editorial Board of Development.
1991- Member of the Editorial Board of BioEssays
1996-2001 Editor, Cell & Developmental Biology Series, Cambridge University Press
2001 Journal of Anatomy
Grants (research work up to 1994 was internally funded by the MRC)
1980 Equipment grant from the Ross Foundation 1980 £4K
1986 Royal Society Travel grant to work in Israel 1986
1991 Two-year grant from the Bird Foundation for corneal development £40K
British Council travel grants to visit Finland 1991
1993 2-year postdoctoral grant from the National Kidney Research Fund £50K
3-year ESF Network for a computer atlas of mouse development £70K
3-year AFRC grant for gene-expression database (with M Kaufman) £180K
1995 1 year Royal Society grant to study kidney induction £4K
7 year Wellcome postgrad. programme (& A Wyllie, R Maisels, E. Riley) £1.2M
1996 1 year MRC grant to make human embryo database (with M Kaufman) £30K
1998 Wellcome programme extension (& A Wyllie, R Maisels, E. Riley) £1.2M
Wellcome equipment grant for confocal microscope (with 5 others) £186K
4 year MRC grant for gene-expression database (with M Kaufman) £200K
1.5 year Davidson Fund grant for kidney research (with J Mason) £7K
1999 Wolfson Foundation/Royal Society. Bioinformatics Infrastructure grant £154K
3-year Interoperability Wellcome network (with F Verbeek, Utrecht) £18K
2000-5 5 year
MRC
co-op grant Human
birth defects: from diagnosis to gene £250K
function (Convenor R
Winter, Inst. Child Health)
2002-5 3 year BBSRC grant (XSPAN – cross embryo ontologies) with A Burger £450K
2007-9 2 year Leverhulme retirement grant £4000