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 | James Alexander | Bowel Research UK | CApsulised faecal microbiota Transplant to Capture response to tHerapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (The CATCH-IBD study) | 47,828 |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Nishel Shah | Rosetrees Trust | How does pregnancy modify the immune response to vaccines that use different technologies to elicit a humoral immune response, and to what extent does this influence protective immuity? | 100,000 |
| Hepatology and Gastroenterology | Tamir Rashid | MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) | Induced pluripotent stem cell derived hepatocytes for liver failure | 1,278,568 |
| Genetics and Genomics | Ines dos Santos Cebola | Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) | Broad Institute Costing for Ines Cebola – The gene expression regulatory variation landscape of insulin target tissues in Latin Americans | 30,000 |
| Nutrition | Isabel Garcia Perez | CEC Commission of the European Communities | Mapping The Uncharted Human Metabolism For Novel Food Bioactives | 249,099 |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Aylin Hanyaloglu | Genesis Research Trust | Genesis 149 Genesis Lecturers in Reproductive Bioinformatics, Microbiome Studies and Gamete Biology and Embryology | 2,203,400 |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Yan Liu | BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council | Understanding the role of the amphibian skin glycome in sharing the microbione and pathogen invasion | 357,230 |
| Endocrinology | Bryn Owen | MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) | Understanding Gonadotropin Pulsatility in Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea | 1,111,511 |
| Hepatology and Gastroenterology | Evangelos Triantafyllou | Rosetrees Trust | Neutrophil phenotypic, transcriptional, and functional heterogeneity in cirrhosis | 98,023 |
| Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Catherine Williamson | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | Trust FR675 -fund 79560 “to support sickle cell research engagement work) Oliva Walker | 28,650 |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Phillip Bennett | Imperial Health Charity | How Diet Before and Around Conception Affects Gut and Vaginal Microbiomes and Birth Outcomes: A Feasibility Study | 81,913 |
| Division of Systems Medicine | Zoe Hall | Rosetrees Trust | Metabolic landscape of cancer-associated fibroblasts in liver cancer | 19,625 |
| Nutrition | David Ma | Hellenic Research and Innovation Centre, a YIOTIS S.A | Plant-based food product to improve intestinal epithelial homeostasis | 179,789 |
| Division of Systems Medicine | Erika Dorado Montezuma | CRUK Cancer Research UK | EV-MASS: Extracellular vesicles based liquid biopsy platform for early detection and diagnosis of cancer | 99,974 |
** 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.
On Friday 9 May 2025, research degree students and academic judges came together to showcase their presentations at Rising Scientist Day – an annual event designed to showcase the talent and hard work of our postgraduate research students. We found out what
At the end of October, there was a Grant/Fellowship Writing Workshop for early career researchers in the MDR and I&I departments. I&I Postdoc Champion Tom McKinnon was the Master of Ceremony for that day which was well attended by over 60 junior researchers, many of whom want to apply for fellowships and grants in the near future (according to a poll at the start of the day). Opening remarks by I & I Head of Department Marina Botto welcomed the cohort, with an important reminder that the day could provide an opportunity to reflect on whether a fellowship was something each person truly wanted.
Congratulations to MDR’s Jen Barcroft (gynaecology) and Bronacha Mylrea-Foley (obstetrics) who scooped both young investigator prizes, at the closing ceremony of ISUOG 2024 (Budapest). 
