Funding successes: Q1 2026 (January – March)

Congratulations to Professor Maud Lemoine on her recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*

Proposal Dept/Group PI Name Sponsor Proposal Title  Awarded Value (£)**
Hepatology and Gastroenterology Maud Lemoine NIHR National Institute for Health Research A Simplified screen-and-Treat-all prOphylaxis approach in Pregnant women to stop Hepatitis B Virus mother-to-child transmission in Malawi and The Gambia (STOP-HBV)              2,966,811
Hepatology and Gastroenterology Cathrin Vlaski MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) Targeting IL-27 to treat checkpoint inhibitor-induced hepatitis                 784,786
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Victoria Male Action Medical Research Granular Insights: Uterine NK Cells in Placental Development                 229,743
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Maria Kyrgiou NIHR National Institute for Health Research Comparative efficacy and reproductive outcomes after fertility-sparing treatment for endometrial hyperplasia, with or without atypia, and early endometrial cancer: synthesis of the evidence and network meta-analysis                 197,421
Metabolism Nick Oliver DexCom International Limited Comprehensive Linkage CGM Knowledge (CLICK) study                 150,157
Hepatology and Gastroenterology Ahmed El-Masry European Association for the Study of Liver Investigating neutrophil heterogeneity in cirrhosis                   19,975
Hepatology and Gastroenterology Mark Thursz NIHR National Institute for Health Research RfPB: HMB Intervention In Cirrhosis                   17,095

** This is the total project value, including subprojects.

*Dude, where’s my grant? A disclaimer:

To ensure the quality and accuracy of the information published on this blog, we source our data directly from the College’s strategic reporting dashboards, relating to FoM. This means that, typically, we only include awards on this list which have been set up on the College’s grants management system, in accordance with the Joint Research Office’s policies and processes. As a result, there may be a delay in promoting some awards.