Funding successes: March and April 2023

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
Mike Crawford NIHR National Institute for Health Research Programme Grants for Applied Research – Competition 35 Extending early intervention in psychosis £42,000
Paul Bentley MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) DPFS – Developmental pathway funding scheme MICA: Improving self-management of lower back pain with a core activity detecting belt £1,880,000
Richard Nicholas Multiple Sclerosis Society Investigating the MS prodrome £157,500
Raffaella Nativio The Royal Society Research Grants The single-nucleus epigenomic and transcriptomic landscape of human astrocytes in healthy ageing £68,000