Congratulations to Professor Simak Ali 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.*
April 2023
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Cancer | Sheba Jarvis | Mason Medical Research Foundation | PA6949 Manipulating Liver-X receptors in adrenocortical cancer for therapeutic gain | £18,746.36 |
| Cancer | Iain McNeish | CRUK Cancer Research UK | Imperial Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC-CRUK) 2023-24 | £230,658.98 |
| Cancer | Simak Ali | MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) | ESR1 mutation profiling identifies potential drivers of metastatic breast cancer | £797,153.00 |
| Vascular | Colin Bicknell | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | £100,000.00 |
Congratulations to Dr Padmanabhan Ramnarayan on his recent funding success.
May 2023
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Anaesthetics | Kieran O’Dea | British Journal of Anaesthesia | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of extracellular vesicle-mediated indirect acute lung injury | £105,821.05 |
| Anaesthetics | Padmanabhan Ramnarayan | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | BACHb trial | £1,655,664.34 |
| Cancer | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | Convergence Science CRUK Non-Clinical Training Award 2022 | £203,316.63 |
| Cancer | Iain McNeish | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | PA7451 Surgery and Cancer Theme Pilot Project Budget | £285,000.00 |
| OG | Michael Fadel | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | PA4802 The COlorectal BReath Analysis 2 (COBRA2) Study: Non-invasive Testing for the Diagnosis and Assessment of Colorectal Cancer | £489,650.00 |
| Simulation Centre | Fernando Bello | Mayor’s Office for Policy & Crime (MOPAC) | Simulation-based Holistic Approach for Reducing and Preventing Knife violence – SHARP | £50,000.00 |
| Urology | Rachael Lear | Health Education England (HEE) | Exploring video-based patient records for older people with frailty | £15,000.00 |
| Vascular | Richard Gibbs | Mason Medical Research Foundation | 4D flow in AAA | £20,000.00 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | PAEDIS: Designing a platform trial to assess the effectiveness of interventions for peripheral arterial disease | £197,744.60 |
June 2023
Congratulations to Professor Ara Darzi on his recent funding success.
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Cancer | David Pinato | Merck Sharp and Dohme (UK) Ltd | Pelican: A Phase II study of etoposide-carboplatin (EP) chemotherapy in combination with pembrolizumab and lenvatinib maintenance in advanced high-grade neuroendocrine (HG-NETs) | £741,664.80 |
| General Surgery | James Kinross | 23Ikigai Pte Ltd | Vsel for Early NeoplastIC dEtection (VENICE) | £157,923.66 |
| General Surgery | Ara Darzi | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | £2,079,416.00 | |
| Urology | Taimur Shah | Promaxo, Inc | JPS-COMPACT – Comparing portable MRI and TRUS-Fusion Prostate biopsy to Assess accuracy of prostate cancer detection | £155,952.00 |
| Vascular | Colin Bicknell | BHF British Heart Foundation | Investigation into Sex-specific Differences in Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Risk Factor Management and Major Cardiovascular Outcomes in the Vascular Population. | £142,307.07 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | CRF | £192,995.73 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | IPH CRF | £192,995.73 |
** 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.