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(s) | Group | Funder | Funding Scheme | Proposal Title | Awarded amount (£) |
| Professor David Sharp | Clinical Neurology | The Football Association Premier League | N/A | FA grant | 1,320,000 |
| Dr Samuel Barnes, Dr Johanna Jackson, Prof Simon Schultz (Bioengineering) | Neuroscience | Brightfocus Foundation | Standard Award Program in AD research | Functional and molecular mapping of vulnerable GABAergic synapses in early-stage AD pathophysiology | 238,971 |
| Dr Johanna Jackson, Dr Samuel Barnes | Neuroscience | Rosetrees Trust | Standard Project | A translational pathway for the rescue of GABAergic circuitry in early-stage AD | 89,930 |
| Dr Barry Seemungal | Clinical Neurology | University of Birmingham | N/A | mBTI | 117,578 |
| Dr Lucia Li | Clinical Neurology | UK DRI Ltd | UKDRI Pilot Project | investigating the link between systemic inflammation and neurodegeneration after traumatic brain injury | 49,940 |
| Dr Paresh Malhotra | Clinical Neurology | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | Call for New Proposals for Period April – November 2022 | Validating novel blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Imperial Amyloid PET Cohort | 48,113 |
| Dr Dasha Nicholls (work to be led by Dr Victoria Burmester) | Psychiatry | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | NIHR Imperial BRC: Call for proposals Apr-Nov 2022 | Effects of oxytocin on mood and social behaviour in adolescent females with eating disorders . | 47,999 |
| Dr Shlomi Haar Millo | Clinical Neurology | UK DRI Ltd | UK DRI PILOT STUDIES PROGRAMME ROUND FOUR | Towards neuroimaging the effects of Deep Brain Stimulation | 43,852 |
| Dr Martina Di Simplicio | Psychiatry | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | NIHR Imperial BRC: Call for proposals Apr-Nov 2022 | Reverting Motivational Abnormalities Guiding Dysregulated Behaviour in Young People Using Mental Imagery – Study 3 | 38,486 |
| Professor Mike Crawford | Psychiatry | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | NIHR Imperial BRC: Call for proposals Apr-Nov 2022 | Severe COVID anxiety among adults in the United Kingdom: 18-month cohort study | 31,647 |
| Dr Louise Paterson | Psychiatry | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | NIHR Imperial BRC: Call for proposals Apr-Nov 2022 | Remote monitoring of sleep disordered breathing in opiate dependence: identifying at-risk individuals to improve outcomes | 10,656 |
| Dr Magdalena Sastre | Neuroscience | Rosetrees Trust | Seedcorn 2021 | Investigation Of Perivascular Tau Deposits In a Model for chronic traumatic encephaopathy | 10,000 |
| Professor Mike Crawford | Psychiatry | NIHR | Health Technology Assessment | The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Structured Psychological Support for people with personality disorder: Randomised controlled trial. | 1,510,000 |