Congratulations to Professor Hector Keun 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 2024
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Anaesthetics | Anthony Gordon | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | STudy into the REversal of Septic Shock (STRESS-L) | £15,867.23 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | Graham-Dixon Charitable Trust | The Role of IL-11 in Vein Wall Fibrosis Following DVT | £24,990.00 |
| Surgery | Ara Darzi | The Talent Fund | ‘INFORM’ Improving prostate cancer detection – developing a novel behavioural science informed dialogue to inform high risk groups | £50,000.00 |
| Surgery | James Kinross | EPSRC Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council | Institute for Microbiome Engineering (EPSRC via UCL) | £61,321.64 |
| Cancer | Jonathan Krell | HCA International Limited | n/a | £66,000.00 |
| Surgery | Ara Darzi | Patient Safety Watch | National and Global State of Patient Safety Reports | £105,000.01 |
| Cancer | David Pinato | Sarcoma UK | Phenotypic characterisation of the immune microenvironment to define mechanisms of responsiveness to immunotherapy in Kaposi Sarcoma | £149,417.00 |
| Cancer | James Flanagan | Breast Cancer Now | How does breast feeding reduce breast cancer risk? | £150,715.00 |
| Urology | Erik Mayer | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust-BRC Funding | n/a | £169,875.82 |
| Cancer | Sung Pil Hong | St Marys Development Trust | Exploring predictive biomarkers for drug response in oesophageal adenocarcinoma using single-cell spatial transcriptomics | £186,142.00 |
| OG | Gina Brown | RM Partners | The PRESERVE Trial: Pre-therapeutic MRI assessment of Early Stage Rectal Cancer and Significant Rectal Polyps to avoid major resectional surgery | £199,293.00 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | n/a | £286,684.33 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | BHF British Heart Foundation | The role of anti-inflammatory treatments in the prevention of post-thrombotic fibrosis | £305,668.56 |
| Cancer | Rayzel Fernandes | Prostate Cancer UK | Investigating super-enhancer associated long non-coding RNAs as drivers of therapy resistance in prostate cancer | £349,662.02 |
| Cancer | Hector Keun | NIH National Institutes of Health | The Generation R metabolomics study | £558,904.19 |
Congratulations to Dr Farah Rehman on her recent funding success.
May 2024
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Cancer | Farah Rehman | AstraZeneca UK Limited | Effect of Capivasertib on ctDNA in ER Positive Breast Cancer (CaptAin) | £1,769,477.51 |
| Cancer | Claudia Fulgenzi | Conquer Cancer Foundation | The prognostic impact of the tumour microenvironment on response to immune-checkpoint inhibitors in people living with HIV and unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma | £38,461.51 |
| Surgery | Gaby Judah | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | Promoting STatin Adherence with a Tailored INtervention (STATIN) | £153,619.01 |
Congratulations to Professor Rakesh Heer on his recent funding success.
June 2024
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Sponsor | Infoed Proposal Title | Infoed Awarded Value (£)** |
| Urology | Rakesh Heer | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | The FOLLOW UP study – a natural experiment comparing the clinical and costeffectiveness of follow-up strategies after radical treatment for prostate cancer. | £1,843,983.26 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | n/a | £294,033.73 |
| Cancer | Simak Ali | CRUK Cancer Research UK | CRUK Convergence Science Fellowship 2024 – Developing transcription inhibitors as a new class of cancer therapeutics | £265,452.00 |
| Surgery | Bryony Franklin | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | North West London PSRC Network | £195,000.00 |
| Cancer | David Pinato | CRUK Cancer Research UK | n/a | £121,119.20 |
| Musculoskeletal | Alison McGregor | Innovate UK | n/a | £100,652.02 |
| Anaesthetics | Padmanabhan Ramnarayan | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | Optimising Paediatric Transition To Intensive Care For AduLts (OPTICAL) | £85,056.27 |
| Anaesthetics | Andrew Rice | Chelsea & Westminster Health Charity | Priorites of Patients with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy in NHS Sevices | £64,740.33 |
| Cancer | Rohini Sharma | The UK and Ireland Neuroendocrine Tumour Society (UKI NETS) | Mathematical descriptors of clinical outcome to PRRT from routine imaging in patients with neuroendocrine tumours | £30,000.00 |
| Urology | Rakesh Heer | Prostate Cancer UK | Investigation into how epithelial RNA processing pathways contribute to the development of aggressive prostate cancers and its potential future treatment | £20,627.00 |
** 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.