TENOVUS SCOTLAND also administer four Endowment Trust Funds.
The Lady Margaret MacLellan Award (£5,000 plus monento) is made in respect of the best piece of research carried out in Scotland, in a nominated subject and is made every two years.
The 2010 subject was cancer and the winner was Professor Bob Steel, Department of Surgery and Molecular Oncology, Dundee. Professor Steel led the team that introduced Bowel cancer screening which is being now introduced throughout the country.
The Sir Robin MacLellan Annual Travel Award (£3,000) is intended to contribute towards the travel costs to a Conference/Symposium to enable the research worker, in receipt of a Tenovus Scotland grant, who has made an outstanding contribution, based on their Final Report, to present a paper. The research work must be carried out in Scotland.
The 2011 Sir Robin MacLellan Travel Award (based on the researchers Final Report) was awarded to Dr Donal Wall, for his research into "Salmonella and the expectation of its role in cancer treatment."
The Lady Illingworth Trust Prize Award to be awarded periodically to a person or persons who are thought to have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of the disabilities which affect the elderly.
As a result of a bequest to TENOVUS SCOTLAND by the late Thomas McLatchie, Farmer, Millerston, by Mauchline, the McLatchie Cancer Trust Award was set up for the purpose of aiding cancer research.
Paediatric oncology was chosen as the area of research for the first award and the successful applicants were Dr Brenda Gibson and Dr Rosina Shujaat of the Department of Haematology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow and Professor Faisal Ahmed the Department of Child Health, University of Glasgow, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow. The award of £24,000 over a three year period will be used to research if a progamme of regular supervised exercise can improve bone health and body composition in children receiving chemotherapy for the treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.