Congratulations to Prof Axel Behrens 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.*
October 2023
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Anaesthetics | Padmanabhan Ramnarayan | The Jon Moulton Charity Trust | Reinforcement-learning to optimise fluid management in critically ill children | £61,462.00 |
| Cancer | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | Convergence Science CRUK Non-Clinical Training Award 2023 | £465,051.01 |
| OG | Emma Rose McGlone | The Academy of Medical Sciences | Hepatic glucagon sensitivity before and after bariatric surgery: use of a plasma biomarker to predict resolution of metabolic-associated liver disease | £29,920.00 |
| OG | Stefan Antonowicz | Rosetrees Trust | Augmented Therapies for Oesophageal Malignancy through Intratumoral metabolic heterogeneity characterisation | £99,358.00 |
| Vascular | Colin Bicknell | W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc | ShorT stay Aneurysm Repair (STAR): Evidence based design of a 23-hour endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair pathway with evaluation of eligibility, uptake, viability, acceptability, safety and cost. | £128,000.49 |
| Vascular | Colin Bicknell | Medtronic Limited | ShorT stay Aneurysm Repair (STAR): Evidence based design of a 23-hour endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair pathway with evaluation of eligibility, uptake, viability, acceptability, safety and cost. | £128,000.49 |
Congratulations to Prof Rakesh Heer on his recent funding success.
November 2023
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Anaesthetics | Dominic Marshall | MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) | Identification of novel phenotypes of acute lung injury using multimodal longitudinal data | £271,139.24 |
| Anaesthetics | David Antcliffe | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | Application: FLuid strategies and Inflammatory Phenotypes in the SepTIC trial (FLIP-SepTIC) | £381,889.26 |
| Cancer | Simak Ali | Breast Cancer Now | Defining the differential activities of different estrogen receptor mutations in metastatic breast cancer to identify the most appropriate therapeutic interventions | £249,952.00 |
| Centre for Health Policy | David Nabarro | AXA SA- AXA Research Fund | Climate Cares: build resilience by understanding | £101,461.04 |
| General Surgery | Ara Darzi | World Health Organization | Technical cooperation with WHO within the framework of the Global Patient Safety Collaborative (GPSC) | £81,538.46 |
| Urology | Rakesh Heer | Prostate Cancer UK | Mapping the epigenetic evolution of prostate carcinogenesis (EPI-EVO) | £499,532.00 |
| Urology | Erik Mayer | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | Digital Health Pilot Project budget | £114,961.48 |
Congratulations to Prof Hashim Ahmed on his recent funding success.
December 2023
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Cancer | Christina Fotopoulou | Imperial Health Charity | The Parasol Foundation Senior Research Fellowship in gynaecological cancer | £63,036.00 |
| Cancer | Rohini Sharma | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust | HCC screen services | £138,657.01 |
| Cancer | Rohini Sharma | TERUMO Europe NV | Rohini Sharma Trial with Terumo | £200,997.67 |
| Musculoskeletal | Paul Strutton | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | NeuroMap “ Enhancing upper limb assessment in spinal cord injury” | £41,251.02 |
| Simulation Centre | Fernando Bello | MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) | Soft Robotics for Medical Simulation | £47,280.00 |
| Surgery | Andrea Frilling | Advanced Accelerator Applications International SA | NELMAS: phase II study comparing adjuvant treatment with 177Lu-DOTATATE (Lutathera) to best supportive care in patients after resection of neuroendocrine liver metastases | £1,195,896.00 |
| Urology | Hashim Ahmed | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | Randomised controlled trial of regular MRI scans | £2,492,096.58 |
** 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.