Funding successes: August 2022

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.

Project Lead Funder Scheme Project Title  Awarded Amount
Mike Crawford NIHR National Institute for Health Research Doctoral Fellowship round 6 NIHR Doctoral Fellowship (Dr Ryan Williams) – ‘The clinical effectiveness of interventions for 1st episode psychosis in the real world’ 440,692
Samuel Barnes BrightFocus Foundation Alzheimer’s Disease Research Programme Functional and molecular features of inhibitory synaptic vulnerability in AD 199,811
Paul Matthews UK DRI Ltd n/a UK DRI Large-scale Longitudinal investigation of imaging and fluid-based biomarkers of brain injury 109,763
Dasha Nicholls Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust n/a Best for You Evaluation 100,001
Javier Alegre Abarrategui Alzheimer’s Society PhD Studentship PhD Studentship – Investigation of early tau aggregation in post-mortem brain 91,000