Congratulations to all members of the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our round-up of the latest funding successes.
Please note, this list comprises awards that have recently been set up on College’s grants management system, with some manual additions. It may not, therefore, include all new grants awarded to Principal Investigators in the Department.
| Principal Investigator | Group | Funder | Scheme | Proposal title | Award amount (£) |
| Professor Michael Johnson | Clinical Neurology | MRC | Project Grant: Better Methods Better Research Board | Bayesian causal learning – a novel framework for drug-target discovery using Mendelian randomization on single-cell transcriptomics | 624,000 |
| Professor Payam Barnaghi | Clinical Neurology | EPSRC/NIHR | Standard research | PROTECT: Predictive approaches in managing long-term conditions: from remote monitoring data to digital biomarkers | 1,219,503 |
| Professor Adam Hampshire | Clinical Neurology | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | Imperial BRC – Translating research into patient benefits | Development of a standardised pipeline for cleaning and modelling big online cognitive assessment data | 52,422 |
| Dr Dasha Nicholls | Psychiatry | Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | NiHR PGfAR | ARC Mental Health | 748,972 |
| Dr Leon Fonville | Psychiatry | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | NIHR Imperial BRC: Call for proposals Apr-Nov 2022 | Investigating the Impact of Iron Accumulation in Subcortical Structures on Brain Structure and Function. | 16,245 |
| Professor Mike Crawford | Psychiatry | National Institute for Health Research | Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme 20/90 – Researcher-led workstream | The clinical & cost effectiveness of Structured Psychological Support (SPS) for people with a diagnosis of personality disorder: RCT | 1,551,739 |