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 | Worktribe PI Name | Worktribe Sponsor | Worktribe Proposal Title | Worktribe Awarded Value (£)** |
| Pathology | Robert Goldin | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust-BRC Funding | BRC/NWLP Hepatic Histopathology Consultant Research post | 204,000 |
| Digestive Disease | Tamas Korcsmaros | CEC Commission of the European Communities | Biological evidence and mechanism-based disease classification for the improved diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of ME/CFS | 290,030 |
| Nutrition | Gary Frost | Novo Nordisk Fonden | Developing causal insight into the relationship between diet, microbiome and cardio metabolic disease | 435,381 |
| Nutrition | Jennifer Pugh | BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council | Improving the Nutritional Profile of Plant-Based Proteins | 38,059 |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Lynne Sykes | Rosetrees Trust | Revealing the importance of microbes and the immune response in early births among women with multiple pregnancies: Paving the way for new prediction tools and treatment options | 209,958 |
| Nutrition | Edward Chambers | BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council | Bridging the dietary fibre gap in older adults to support gut health | 45,520 |
| Division of Systems Medicine | Harry Whitwell | MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) | Harnessing the glucose lowering actions of alpha-melanocyte stimulatory hormone as a potential new adjunctive therapy for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus | 393,109 |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Vasso Terzidou | MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) | PROPER-T: a new screening blood test for early stratification of women at risk of preterm birth and growth restriction at first antenatal appointment | 1,197,800 |
| Endocrinology | Edouard Mills | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | Neurokinin-1,3 Receptor Antagonism for Vasomotor Symptoms in Men with Prostate Cancer | 3,401,290 |
** 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.