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 | Combined Scheme | Project Title | Amount |
| Samaneh Kouchaki | UK DRI Ltd | UK DRI Pilot Award Programme | A feasibility study to evaluate the use of electronic healthcare records for dementia screening | £47,800 |
| Nathan Skene | UK DRI Ltd | Translation Award | Development of a kit for droplet-based single-cell multi-omic TIP-seq and RNA profiling | £162,500 |
| Magdalena Anita Jones | Alzheimer’s Society | Clinician and healthcare professionals training fellowships | At-home digital evaluation of sleep, night time behaviour and treatment in Alzheimer’s disease | £326,400 |
| Paul Edison | Alzheimer’s Association | Part the Cloud Translational Research Funding | Evaluating oral semaglutide as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease | £704,300 |
| Edward Rhodes | EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council | CLOSENIT | CloseNIT – Closed-loop temporal interference stimulation (TI) to alleviate Bradykinesia in Parkinson’s Disease | £39,800 |
| Richard Nicholas | Multiple Sclerosis Trials Collaboration (MSTC) | Research Grant (PhD Support) | Investigating the MS prodrome: setting up the clinical study | £90,600 |
| Sadra Sadeh | Imperial – Nanyang Technological University Collaboration Fund will | Research Grant | Biologically constrained dynamical modelling of claustral network function | £14,300 |