Funding successes: August 2020

Congratulations to Mr Colin Bicknell on his recent funding success.

Well done to all Principal Investigators in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our monthly round-up of funding successes*.

Proposal Dept/Group Infoed PI Name Infoed Sponsor Infoed Proposal Title Infoed Awarded Value*
Cancer Williams, Dr Matthew Imperial Health Charity Using longitudinal speech samples to predict disease recurrence in patients with brain tumour (4 year PhD studentship supplementary support). 20,000
Anaesthetics Soni, Dr Sanooj The Academy of Medical Sciences Sanooj Soni AMS Starter Grant 29,046
Computational and Systems Medicine Veselkov, Dr Kirill Yale University Identification of Biomarkers and Novel Pathways of Alcoholic Liver Disease by Leveraging Metabolomics, Tissue Imaging Mass Spectrometry, and Integrative Machine Learning 35,477
Cancer Keun, Professor Hector Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding Accelerating clinical development of the first-in-class selective MCT1 inhibitor AZD3965 49,960
Cancer Frampton, Dr Adam Royal College Of Surgeons Of England Novel Extracellular MicroRNAs as Biomarkers in Pancreatobiliary Cancers. 71,484
Urology Mayer, Mr Erik Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding Development, assessment & Validation of ICHNT High performance of Informatics solutions 113,778
Cancer Coombes, Professor Charles DNA Electronics Ltd Development of a rapid, DNA sequencing-based test platform for cancer testing and monitoring (Knowledge Transfer Partnership with DNA Electronics Ltd, linked to P82347). 188,500
Vascular Bicknell, Mr Colin Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Getting to the heart of why women die from AAA ­ Could cardiovascular disease play a major role 443,748

*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.