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Research wholly or partly supported by funds from outside bodies: Notice by the General Board

The General Board now publish information about the extent to which research in the University was supported by funds from outside bodies during the financial year ending 31 July 1997. This information has been published annually by the Board in accordance with a Notice which first appeared in the Reporter, 1955-56 (p. 818). The format of the present Notice has been amended, in order to provide more comparative information on the level of research grant income in the preceding years, and to highlight the major sponsors in the largest categories. Further information on the full list of individual sponsors, and on individual subjects of research listed under the relevant sponsor and University institution, is available on printouts held for reference in the Research Grants and Contracts Section.

The General Board wish to remind the University that the Schedules included in this Notice are restricted to income and expenditure passing through Departmental accounts. They do not include expenditure by outside bodies on self-contained Research Units which, although sometimes closely linked with the University, are administratively and financially the responsibility of the outside body concerned; nor do they take any account of sums paid by outside bodies directly to individual research workers in the University, for example Research Studentships paid by the Research Councils; nor do they include expenditure through University funds in connexion with University Fellowships, Studentships, or Scholarships temporarily or permanently endowed by outside bodies. They also exclude funds raised by the Development Office which may subsequently be applied to research purposes, and funds raised for capital projects.

SCHEDULE 'A'

Sources from which the University received contracts and grants for research during the financial year 1996-97
Expenditure for
year to 31 July
1997
£		 Number of
authorized
grants
Research Council Grants
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 5,793,117 177
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Fellowships 208,126 10
British Academy, The 460,402 62
Central Laboratory of the Research Councils 58,131 10
Economic and Social Research Council 725,789 35
Economic and Social Research Council Fellowships 71,631 5
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 14,163,049 430
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fellowships 409,110 20
Medical Research Council 8,450,755 205
Medical Research Council Fellowships 1,633,123 59
Natural Environment Research Council 2,482,049 154
Natural Environment Research Council Fellowships 132,069 9
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council 3,532,493 54
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Fellowships 346,312 14
Royal Greenwich Observatory 39,447 1
Royal Observatory Edinburgh 33,434 3
38,539,037 1,248
Research Council contracts
Economic and Social Research Council 819,052 4
Natural Environment Research Council 310,581 8
NERC Institute of Terrestrial Ecology 15,542 2
1,145,175 14
UK central government bodies
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ministry of 444,038 14
Association of Commonwealth Universities 884 1
Babraham Institute 19,135 1
British Council (UK) 6,382 8
British Council (overseas) 58,841 32
British Library 31,210 5
Building Research Establishment 32,158 2
Centre for Economic Policy Research 8,631 1
Defence, Ministry of 876,066 68
Education and Employment, Department of 90,604 6
English Heritage 6,000 2
Environment Agency 43,633 5
Environment, Transport and the Regions, Department of 904,695 9
Government Communications Headquarters 201,140 4
Health and Safety Executive 24,758 1
Health, Department of 233,868 7
Home Office 121,578 5
Horserace Betting Levy Board 142,415 10
Medical Devices Agency 135,230 4
Meteorological Office 22,984 4
National Blood Authority 174,498 4
National Physical Laboratory 2,250 1
National Rivers Authority Anglian Region 124,350 7
Nature Conservancy Council for England (English Nature) 17,246 3
Office for Standards in Education 25,517 2
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 5,633 1
Royal Society (Paul Instrument Fund) 6,956 5
Rural Development Commission, The 12,716 1
Royal Society, The 2,560,290 207
Scottish Natural Heritage 27,788 2
Social Security, Department of 14,000 2
Teaching Company Directorate 13,280 2
The Design Council 32,799 1
Trade and Industry, Department of 138,488 4
Transport, Department of 74,349 2
6,634,410 433
UK health and hospital authorities
Addenbrooke's NHS Trust 68,269 9
Cambridgeshire Family Health Services Authority 98 1
NHS Executive South and West 45,962 2
NHS Executive - Anglia and Oxford 747,053 73
North Thames Regional Health Authority 95,503 2
Papworth Hospital (an NHS Trust) 50,202 3
1,007,087 90
UK local authorities
Cambridgeshire Probation Service 12,222 1
Essex County Council - Education Department 22,626 3
Gloucestershire Rural Community Council 18,546 1
Huntingdonshire District Council 28,988 2
States of Jersey Planning & Environment Committee 1,695 1
84,077 8
UK public corporations
Countryside Council for Wales 6,354 1
Royal Mail 2,000 1
The Housing Corporation 1,970 1
10,324 3
UK industry and commerce
ATML 67,689 1
Bayer U.K. Limited 114,665 1
BNR Europe Limited 80,496 2
Bourn Hall Clinic 37,439 4
British Nuclear Fuels plc 368,257 10
British Petroleum Chemicals Limited 46,082 3
British Petroleum Company plc 5,330 1
British Petroleum International Limited 29,814 1
British Telecommunications plc 109,073 8
Cambridge Systems Associates 52,467 1
Cambustion Limited 62,216 2
Doublemere Limited 71,820 1
Ford Motor Company Limited 283,810 7
Glaxo Research and Development Limited 1,740,494 47
Hewlett Packard Laboratories 46,116 3
Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory - Hitachi Europe Limited 180,484 3
Hitachi Europe Limited 109,971 2
Howmedica International Inc 42,294 4
Hunting-Brae Limited, Atomic Weapons Establishment 150,887 8
ICI Chemicals and Polymers Limited 6,293 2
Imperial Chemical Industries plc 52,290 6
Imperial Chemical Industries plc - Agricultural Division 1,508 1
Imutran Limited 382,892 2
Macfarlan Smith Limited 54,119 2
Microbial Technics Limited 75,906 1
Mobil North Sea Limited 128,052 3
Natural Resources International Limited 123,319 2
Nokia Mobile Phones (UK) Limited 51,565 1
Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK 89,538 2
Olivetti Research Limited 126,574 4
Oxford Molecular Group plc 107,021 2
Pharmaco International Limited 75,966 1
Rhône-Poulenc Limited 726,027 3
Rolls Royce plc 963,816 23
Rolls Royce Industrial & Marine Gas Turbines Limited 42,698 1
Shell Research Limited, Thornton Chester, UK 39,900 5
SmithKline Beecham 289,613 17
Toshiba Cambridge Research Centre Limited 345,618 9
Unilever plc - London 33,621 6
Unilever Research 765,254 15
Yorkshire Water Services Limited 73,645 1
Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Limited 306,338 2
Zeneca Research and Development Planning 492 2
Zeneca Specialities 2,018 2
8,463,487 224
Others1 (117 grants from 94 sponsors) 1,036,612 117
9,495,099 341
UK based charitable bodies
Action Research 100,099 10
Arthritis and Rheumatism Council, The 113,500 7
Association for International Cancer Research 216,809 11
Bible Society 27,534 3
British Diabetic Association 245,207 22
British Heart Foundation 1,792,889 86
British Small Animal Veterinary Association 23,261 4
Cambridge Cancer Research Fund 21,366 3
Cancer Research Campaign 2,930,742 75
Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust 109,054 5
Gatsby Charitable Foundation, The 27,987 3
Huntington's Disease Association 39,378 3
Institute of Chartered Accountants, The 11,707 4
International Spinal Research Trust 69,693 3
Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness, The 26,747 3
Isaac Newton Trust 476,641 63
Joseph Rowntree Foundation 122,465 13
Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund 332,669 11
Leukaemia Research Fund 213,362 13
Leverhulme Trust, The 1,094,244 75
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine 128,885 8
Lloyd's of London Tercentenary Foundation 51,872 3
Multiple Sclerosis Society, The 544,794 14
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain 73,566 4
National Kidney Research Fund 117,581 11
Nuffield Foundation, The 110,827 35
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation 285,882 1
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust 46,541 3
Stewart, Sir Halley, Trust 26,812 5
The Royal Economic Society 6,000 3
Tuberous Sclerosis Association of Great Britain 52,008 5
United Kingdom Co-ordinating Committee on Cancer Research 140,130 2
WellBeing 229,764 8
Wellcome Trust 13,649,158 483
Wishbone Trust 27,238 3
Wolfson Foundation, The 145,835 2
23,632,247 1,007
Others1 (105 grants from 85 sponsors) 941,055 105
24,573,302 1,112
Overseas
Burroughs Wellcome Fund, The 65,069 3
Childwatch International 46,758 1
Diamed AG Diagnostic and Medical Products 155,839 1
Dupont Merck Pharmaceutical Company 78,970 2
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute 51,920 2
Family Health International 85,180 1
Hoechst Celanese Corporation 95,395 3
Howard Hughes Medical Institute 64,160 1
Macarthur, John D. and Catherine T., Foundation 71,373 6
Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited 58,968 1
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited 74,156 1
Motorola Incorporated 64,581 2
National Institutes of Health, USA 260,019 11
NeoRx Corporation 93,237 4
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 7,039 6
Novo Nordisk A/S 61,601 1
Pew Charitable Trusts, The 471,044 3
Seiko Epson Corporation 146,166 1
Sentinel Bioscience Inc. 325,946 3
Spencer Foundation, The, USA 84,088 2
United Nations, Indigenous Development International 50,465 1
United States Army 50,417 2
United States Department of Commerce 56,157 1
United States Institute of Peace 35,803 3
United States Navy 267,142 9
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 51,998 1
World Health Organisation 146,091 8
3,019,582 80
Others1 (87 grants from 70 sponsors) 1,205,877 87
4,225,459 167
Other sources
British Institute in East Africa 76,751 2
Cambridge School Development Group 17,372 1
Gonville & Caius College 11,510 1
HM Prison Service 7,988 2
King's College London, Department of Chemistry 22,371 1
Lancaster University 7,831 1
Pali Text Society 34,484 1
Peterhouse 13,510 1
Rugby Football Union 22,746 1
Trinity College 13,333 1
University College London 24,011 2
University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate 54,561 2
University of Nottingham 13,845 1
Others2 (7 grants from 7 sponsors) 14,290 7
334,603 24
EU government bodies
European Science Foundation 28,730 3
German Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF) 8,187 1
Human Frontiers Science Programme 194,509 14
The National Agency for Education 302 1
University of Leiden 23,036 3
254,764 22
EC (European Commission)
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training 260 1
European Commission ESPRIT Programme 615,574 35
European Commission HCMP - Fellowships 726,958 103
European Commission HCMP - others 237,770 55
European Commission INTAS Programme 31,248 21
European Commission TMR - Fellowships 1,300,437 82
European Commission TMR - Networks 242,849 15
European Commission - TMR Conferences 65,069 3
European Commission - contracts 160,803 2
European Commission - grants 4,203,612 260
7,584,580 577
EU industry and commerce
Alcatel Bell 33,762 1
Astra Arcus AB 33,518 1
Fujisawa GMBH 45,126 1
Ipsen Biotech SNC 13,348 1
Rhône-Poulenc Rorer Recherche Développement, France 10,000 1
Shell Research BV, The Netherlands 20,479 1
Siemens Audiologische Technik GMBH 16,269 2
Tiedemanns Joh. H. Andresen 128,542 3
Unilever Research Laboratorium Vlaardingen Nederland 36,931 1
Valaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek 38,461 1
Others2 (10 grants from 8 sponsors) 11,925 10
388,361 23

1 Sponsors where the expenditure for the year was below £50,000, or where the number of grants received was fewer than three.
2 Sponsors where the expenditure for the year was under £5,000.

Schedule A: comparative summary

1996-97
 1995-96
 1994-95
 1993-94
Expenditure
(£000)		 No of
grants		 Expenditure
(£000)		 No of
grants		 Expenditure
(£000)		 No of
grants		 Expenditure
(£000)		 No of
grants
Research Council grants 38,539 1,248 37,157 1,181 37,024 1,133 32,664 1,121
Research Council contracts 1,145 14 1,150 14 1,111 11 493 8
UK central government bodies 6,634 433 5,296 385 5,194 353 3,511 192
UK health and hospital authorities 1,007 90 848 79 687 66 562 58
UK local authorities 84 8 97 12 14 3 9 3
UK public corporations 10 3 0 0 5 1 13 2
UK industry and commerce 9,495 341 6,891 288 6,574 264 6,234 258
UK based charities 24,573 1,112 21,510 979 21,830 947 21,186 979
Overseas3 4,225 167 2,912 142 2,776 123 3,229 153
Other sources 334 24 298 19 240 19 246 16
EU government bodies3 254 22 267 21 225 17 0 0
European Commission 7,584 577 9,116 525 8,334 431 6,690 397
EU industry and commerce3 388 23 232 18 0 0 0 0
94,276 4,062 85,774 3,663 84,014 2,758 74,837 3,187
3 Prior to the introduction of separate categories for EU government bodies and EU industry and commerce, these sponsors were included in the overseas category.

SCHEDULE 'B'

Summary analysis showing, for each University institution, the expenditure financed by contracts and grants from outside bodies for the financial years 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96 and 1996-97.
Institution 1993-94
£		 1994-95
£		 1995-96
£		 1996-97
£
African Studies, Centre of - 11,774 15,648 33,858
Anatomy 1,947,120 2,049,678 1,290,931 1,264,057
Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic 61,521 45,544 45,473 36,490
Applied Economics 793,121 777,900 706,800 711,747
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 1,848,067 1,972,476 2,208,351 2,479,537
Archaeology 326,177 89,654 58,878 76,506
Archaeology and Anthropology 102,938 86,206 88,971 75,171
Architecture 277,034 349,351 323,223 238,979
Astronomy 1,610,487 1,661,347 2,139,637 2,186,551
Audio Visual Aids - - - 11,761
Biochemistry 2,985,457 3,687,962 3,842,957 5,819,557
Biological Anthropology 63,745 102,718 204,932 147,081
Biotechnology 1,218,713 1,135,825 1,359,322 1,467,289
Board of Continuing Education 37,311 33,450 12,850 -
Centre for Communications Systems Research - - - 106,808
Chemical Engineering 1,020,099 860,506 749,769 921,628
Chemistry 4,734,231 5,345,649 6,774,182 6,430,658
Classics - 34,097 62,266 78,273
Clinical School4 (for totals see note at end of schedule)
Anaesthetics 5,315 - 49,642 97,621
Clinical Biochemistry 1,383,589 2,058,380 1,879,141 2,109,814
Clinical Genetics - - 24,544 62,900
Clinical Gerontology 420,472 468,185 763,115 856,555
Clinical Medicine 642,933 1,508,864 380,064 145,835
Clinical Oncology 285,460 265,783 213,907 322,598
Clinical Pharmacology 386,522 642,907 467,047 582,998
Community Medicine 956,924 827,950 729,743 1,050,139
Haematology 1,072,743 1,215,969 1,359,032 1,385,296
Haematology Diagnostics Development - - - 617,814
Medical Informatics - - - 12,267
Medical Research Council Centre for Brain Repair 137,975 691,907 773,955 1,197,925
Medicinal Chemistry 200,347 181,980 266,183 278,799
Medicine 793,523 1,366,884 2,334,943 3,731,975
Molecular Immunopathology Unit 84,930 127,242 137,184 113,200
Neurology 423,411 502,854 474,837 620,653
Neurosurgery 310,470 339,267 366,875 494,472
Obstetrics and Gynaecology 490,604 592,648 733,416 747,790
Other Medicine Accounts 2,422,101 2,157,481 1,496,988 -
Paediatrics 215,964 153,381 139,405 88,592
PET Brain Imaging Centre - - - 262,435
Psychiatry 802,704 833,838 823,873 677,236
Radiology 717 6,513 36,503 35,991
Regius Professor of Physic, Facilities 92,489 24,816 - -
Surgery 1,069,742 1,082,655 1,147,898 697,198
Transfusion Medicine 103,533 91,321 140,686 407,125
Wellcome Immunology Unit - - - 464,400
Clinical Veterinary Medicine 1,011,246 1,655,602 1,457,504 1,668,986
Computer Laboratory (Departmental) 944,904 1,479,262 1,747,678 1,787,786
Computer Laboratory (Computing Service) 36,676 34,497 26,378 14,281
Criminology 311,774 166,155 211,827 162,282
Divinity 25,711 3,788 79,743 144,144
Earth Sciences 1,746,276 2,222,408 1,847,612 2,198,650
Economics and Politics - 4,866 42,860 87,625
Education 54,638 101,719 212,690 186,448
Engineering 4,911,665 5,816,980 5,536,146 6,450,559
English - 4,288 16,829 49,511
Experimental Psychology 1,255,039 1,727,477 1,643,641 1,900,286
ESRC Centre for Business Research - 415,702 556,996 727,152
Fitzwilliam Museum 10,483 14,293 1,449 28,494
French 4,870 - - -
Genetics 2,610,638 2,375,859 2,577,134 2,085,111
Geography 586,649 574,641 532,999 569,406
Geography Coastal Research Unit - - 15,270 298,996
German - 20,910 28,912 52,165
Hamilton Kerr Institute 40,670 38,202 52,637 31,646
History 278,678 221,294 207,988 168,446
History and Philosophy of Science 104,002 116,346 88,065 17,727
History of Medicine 378,958 358,582 325,530 274,937
History of Population and Social Structure 393,188 418,475 281,481 292,734
Industrial Liaison and Technology Transfer 9,231 - - -
Institute of Education 23,904 31,492 155,173 116,530
International Studies 33,312 569 4 -
Italian 13,094 - - -
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science 389,680 845,617 577,061 802,775
Judge Institute of Management Studies 180,788 190,160 346,985 590,175
Land Economy 144,545 115,774 187,082 713,639
Language Centre 27,419 110,575 172,995 113,614
Latin-American Studies, Centre of 19,445 9,005 33,323 (1,851)
Law 28,878 24,330 - 17,056
Linguistics 117,881 35,895 947 1,155
Materials Science and Metallurgy 1,946,898 2,748,198 2,801,636 3,273,692
McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research - 247,779 365,961 351,292
Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis 156,200 94,122 227,179 470,710
Modern and Medieval Languages - - - 742
Music 24,330 20,989 21,880 19,162
Oriental Studies 67,125 44,742 69,550 111,192
Pathology 6,538,229 6,613,702 6,277,081 5,818,205
Pharmacology 1,257,772 1,423,501 1,311,845 2,470,944
Philosophy 41,235 40,619 14,216 -
Physical Education 55,778 59,501 59,433 57,700
Physics 6,888,055 7,044,726 7,623,010 7,615,223
Physiology 1,118,687 1,079,947 929,140 963,344
Plant Sciences 1,384,280 1,537,172 1,455,327 1,205,380
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics 414,573 518,885 529,460 509,354
Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics - - - 18,957
Research Centre for International Law 97,390 78,162 28,630 28,075
Scott Polar Research Institute 686,189 554,932 430,351 319,616
Slavonic Studies 40,101 26,490 7,418 -
Social and Political Sciences 613,384 812,204 595,597 701,824
Social and Political Sciences (Centre for Family Research) 178,771 241,652 285,675 269,816
Social Anthropology 302,741 206,938 138,086 172,237
Spanish - 4,288 - -
Superconductivity, Research Centre in 2,323,356 2,041,537 1,893,793 1,709,105
University Library 205,972 204,541 206,281 232,589
Wellcome CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology4 (for totals see note at end of schedule) 2,056,143 2,096,155 1,744,419 1,611,687
Wellcome CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology (Biochemistry) 43,284 91,937 109,952 180,206
Wellcome CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology (Genetics) 300,121 549,873 988,030 808,264
Wellcome CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology (Pathology) 74,571 250,609 396,097 582,729
Wellcome CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology (Physiology) 272,032 358,581 464,515 500,454
Wellcome CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology (Zoology) 218,395 216,285 749,283 1,176,033
Zoology 2,539,730 2,504,017 2,464,374 2,399,702
74,838,794 84,231,812 85,776,326 94,276,278
4 Note
Clinical School 12,291,838 15,140,825 14,738,981 17,061,628
Wellcome CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology 2,964,546 3,563,440 4,452,296 4,859,373

SCHEDULE 'C'

The following table, which is also published in the Abstract of Accounts for the year ended 31 July 1997 (Reporter, Special No. 10, 19 December 1997), shows the proportion of research grant and contract income which was specifically in respect of indirect costs. A further analysis, showing the research grant and contract income of individual institutions, including the contributions obtained towards indirect costs, is published in the Abstract of Accounts. Similar tables for the preceding financial years are also included for comparison, covering the same period as the comparative summary in Schedule A. It should be noted that contributions towards indirect costs are not normally sought from UK-based charities under current funding arrangements for universities, although a fixed percentage in respect of indirect costs has been paid by the Research Councils on their grants from 1 August 1992.

Please note that due to accounting procedures concerning Capital Expenditure and Equipment Depreciation the figures in Schedule C do not match exactly the totals in Schedules A and B.

1996-97
 1995-96
Direct
Costs
£000		 Contribution
to Indirect
Costs
£000		 Income
£000		 Direct
Costs
£000		 Contribution
to Indirect
Costs
£000		 Income
£000
OST Research Councils 32,151 7,371 39,522 31,604 6,753 38,357
UK-based Charities 24,410 5 24,415 21,429 9 21,438
UK Central Government bodies 5,889 687 6,576 4,784 519 5,303
UK Local Authorities 71 13 84 75 22 97
UK Public Corporations 10 0 10 0 0 0
UK Industry and Commerce 8,138 1,199 9,337 5,966 898 6,864
UK Health and Hospital Authorities 967 40 1,007 813 35 848
EU Government bodies 6,593 1,205 7,798 8,109 1,243 9,352
EU other 329 59 388 183 49 232
Other Overseas 3,650 481 4,131 2,610 297 2,907
Other Sources 327 8 335 285 13 298
82,535 11,068 93,603 75,858 9,838 85,696
1994-95
 1993-94
Direct
Costs
£000		 Contribution
to Indirect
Costs
£000		 Income
£000		 Direct
Costs
£000		 Contribution
to Indirect
Costs
£000		 Income
£000
OST Research Councils 30,496 6,832 37,328 27,523 5,635 33,158
UK-based Charities 21,572 25 21,597 19,401 21 19,422
UK Central Government bodies 4,534 653 5,187 4,611 629 5,240
UK Local Authorities 11 3 14 8 1 9
UK Public Corporations 5 0 5 13 0 13
UK Industry and Commerce 5,707 867 6,574 5,466 774 6,240
UK Health and Hospital Authorities 680 7 687 595 3 598
EU Government bodies 7,426 1,133 8,559 5,950 900 6,850
EU other 175 41 216 187 54 241
Other Overseas 2,520 232 2,752 2,593 227 2,820
Other Sources 236 4 240 237 11 248
73,362 9,797 83,159 66,584 8,255 74,839
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