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Congratulations to Professor Maud Lemoine on her recent funding success.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Proposal Dept\/Group<\/td>\nPI Name<\/td>\nSponsor<\/td>\nProposal Title<\/td>\n\u00a0Awarded Value (\u00a3)**<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hepatology and Gastroenterology<\/td>\nMaud Lemoine<\/td>\nNIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\nA 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)<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,966,811<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hepatology and Gastroenterology<\/td>\nCathrin Vlaski<\/td>\nMRC Medical Research Council (MRC)<\/td>\nTargeting IL-27 to treat checkpoint inhibitor-induced hepatitis<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 784,786<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology<\/td>\nVictoria Male<\/td>\nAction Medical Research<\/td>\nGranular Insights: Uterine NK Cells in Placental Development<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 229,743<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology<\/td>\nMaria Kyrgiou<\/td>\nNIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\nComparative 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<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 197,421<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Metabolism<\/td>\nNick Oliver<\/td>\nDexCom International Limited<\/td>\nComprehensive Linkage CGM Knowledge (CLICK) study<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 150,157<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hepatology and Gastroenterology<\/td>\nAhmed El-Masry<\/td>\nEuropean Association for the Study of Liver<\/td>\nInvestigating neutrophil heterogeneity in cirrhosis<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19,975<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hepatology and Gastroenterology<\/td>\nMark Thursz<\/td>\nNIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\nRfPB: HMB Intervention In Cirrhosis<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 17,095<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

** This is the total project value,\u00a0including subprojects.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*Dude, where\u2019s my grant? A disclaimer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

To ensure the quality and accuracy of the information published on this blog, we source our data directly from the College\u2019s 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\u2019s grants management system, in accordance with the Joint Research Office\u2019s policies and processes. As a result, there may be a delay in promoting some awards.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. 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