Funding successes: Q1 2024 (Jan-March)

Congratulations to Professor Kevin Murphy on his 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 Project Lead Infoed Funder Project Title Amount (£)**
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology David MacIntyre March of Dimes The relationship between the early pregnancy maternal exposome and adverse pregnancy outcomes                 138,462
Endocrinology Tricia Tan Diabetes UK GLP-1 Analogues for Steroid Associated Diabetes: Effects and Mechanisms                 299,917
Endocrinology Kevin Murphy BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Gut to pancreas neurons and metabolic control                 609,775
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Christoph Lees Wellcome Trust POPPY: Preconception study of Outcomes in Primigravid PregnancY                    46,220
Nutrition David Ma Crohn’s & Colitis UK PA8251 Modelling Immune-stromal-epithelial interactions defines a subset of patients with inflammatory bowel disease that does not respond to therapies                    99,943
Genetics and Genomics Ines dos Santos Cebola NC3Rs (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research) Establishment of a variant-to-function framework for cholestatic diseases using human liver in vitro models                 135,000
Endocrinology Ben Jones Association of Physicians of Great Britain & Ireland Islet perifusion system to study GPCR biased agonism                    20,000
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Veronique Azuara Genesis Research Trust Genesis 140 Exploring the microbiome embryo interactions at the beginning of life                    30,000
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Wei Cui Genesis Research Trust Genesis 142 Functions of mTORC2 in peri-implantation human embryos and two states of human pluripotent stem cells                    30,000
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Aylin Hanyaloglu Genesis Research Trust Genesis 139 Targeting the Druggable GPCRome in Recurrent Pregnancy loss – PhD studentship for 4 years                 145,415
Nutrition David Ma Hellenic Research and Innovation Centre, a YIOTIS S.A How the dietary component potentially influences gut health                 149,110
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Phillip Bennett March of Dimes The Imperial College March of Dimes European Prematurity Research Centre 2023-2024                 818,333
CSM and Bioinformatics Petros Andrikopoulos MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) The gut-kidney-heart axis as a driver of cardiovascular disease progression            1,325,202
Hepatology and Gastroenterology Mark Thursz Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Hepatology Clinical Trails sub investigator role                    15,458
Endocrinology Kleopatra Alexiadou Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation Semaglutide improves atherosclerosis via an anti-inflammatory action independent of weight loss                    19,985
Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Centre Horace Williams Bowel Research UK The impact of ethnic differences in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): phenotype and response to treatment                    49,937
Hepatology and Gastroenterology Tamas Korcsmaros F.Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd Building genetics-driven signalling networks of the IBD epithelium                 265,275
Hepatology and Gastroenterology Pinelopi Manousou EU Underwrite – Innovate UK Accelerating the translation of virtual twins towards a personalised management of fatty liver patients                 288,931

*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.

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