{"id":603,"date":"2026-02-18T10:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/?p=603"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:40:29","slug":"funding-successes-q4-2025-october-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/2026\/02\/18\/funding-successes-q4-2025-october-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding successes: Q4 2025 (October &#8211; December)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-605\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" class=\"wp-image-605 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/mdr\/files\/2026\/02\/Nick2-1024x742.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congratulations to Professor Nicholas Powell on his recent funding success.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>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.*<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<table width=\"748\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"147\">Proposal Dept\/Group<\/td>\n<td width=\"107\">PI Name<\/td>\n<td width=\"125\">Sponsor<\/td>\n<td width=\"268\">Proposal Title<\/td>\n<td width=\"101\">\u00a0Awarded Value (\u00a3)**<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology<\/td>\n<td>Tom Bourne<\/td>\n<td>NIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\n<td>A Multi-centre, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Randomised Trial Comparing A Combination Of Methotrexate And Mifepristone Versus Methotrexate Alone As A Medical Treatment For Tubal Ectopic Pregnancy (AMETHYST)<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20,701<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology<\/td>\n<td>Beth Holder<\/td>\n<td>The Royal Society<\/td>\n<td>Modulation of placental vascularization by placental macrophage extracellular vesicles<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 25,831<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pathology<\/td>\n<td>Robert Goldin<\/td>\n<td>MRC Medical Research Council (MRC)<\/td>\n<td>Multimodal profiling of inflammatory and immune cells to determine stage and treatment response in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and type II diabetes<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 30,302<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hepatology and Gastroenterology<\/td>\n<td>Nicholas Powell<\/td>\n<td>AbbVie Ltd<\/td>\n<td>U-Eclipse: Efficacy of updacitinib for the treatment of perianal fistulizing Crohn&#8217;s disease<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3,508,738<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hepatology and Gastroenterology<\/td>\n<td>Nicholas Powell<\/td>\n<td>GlaxoSmithKline<\/td>\n<td>PA7165 Pausing immunosuppressive therapy to enhance immune responses to Herpes Zoster vaccination in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a feasibility randomised controlled trial<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,631,397<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Endocrinology<\/td>\n<td>Kevin Murphy<\/td>\n<td>MRC Medical Research Council (MRC)<\/td>\n<td>A volumetric ultrasound imaging system for biomedical research<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 726,373<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Metabolism<\/td>\n<td>Shivani Misra<\/td>\n<td>Breakthrough T1D<\/td>\n<td>Defining metabolic dysfunction and use of adjunct therapies in type 1 diabetes, using real-world data<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 483,452<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Endocrinology &amp; 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