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 | Co-Investigator(s) | Funder | Combined Scheme | Project Title | Amount |
| Fiona Watt | Suzie Cro | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | The Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme | Hand Osteoarthritis, randomised controlled trial of Pain Efficacy of transdermal Estradiol: HOPE-E2 trial | £2,200,000 |
| Fiona Watt | Alex Liddle | Arthritis UK | Osteoarthritis Research Consortium 2025 | SOLVE: Stratification of OA for Living Well and treatment Effectiveness | £426,000 |
| Deepa Jayakody Arachchillage | Jim Crawley | BHF British Heart Foundation | Discovery Research PhD Studentships | Autoantibody driven impaired fibrinolysis in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome | £153,000 |
| Deepa Jayakody Arachchillage | Anastasios Karadimitris | Lupus UK | Research Funding: Spring 2026 round | MicroRNA Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Antiphospholipid Syndrome | £34,990 |