Congratulations to Professor Tom Williams 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.*
July & August 2025
| Proposal Dept/Group | Worktribe PI Name | Worktribe Sponsor | Worktribe Proposal Title | Worktribe Awarded Value (£)** |
| Cancer | Ehsan Ghorani | Lung Cancer Research | Reducing immunotherapy overtreatment by development of new biomarkers of resistance utilising samples from patients with lung cancer within a prospective phase III study. | £100,000 |
| Cancer | Olivier Pardo | Cancer Treatment & Research Trust | Targeting the hnRNPA1 pathway to sensitise lung cancer cells to IFN-gamma signalling | £98,811 |
| Cancer | Christina Fotopoulou | CEC Commission of the European Communities | Disarming the Silent Threat of Ovarian Cancer (DISARM) | £378,319 |
| Centre for Health Policy | Tom Williams | Wellcome Trust | Epidemiological and functional dissection of the co-evolution between Plasmodium falciparum parasites and sickle haemoglobin. | £4,499,457 |
| CRUK – ICR – Imperial Convergence Science Centre | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | CRUK Convergence Science Centre Clinical Research Fellowship Award 2025 | £287,289 |
| Hamlyn Centre | Daniel Elson | Innovate UK | Software Hyperspectral Imaging for Precision Surgery (En-Surge) | £42,545 |
| Oesophageal-gastric | George Hanna | Brain Tumour Research Campaign | BTRC Translational Award | £105,715 |
| OG | George Hanna | Epilepsy Research Institute UK | Design of non-invasive breath test for epileptic seizures: a diagnostic and predictive study (VIBES II) | £289,578 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | RCUK | £47,539 |
Congratulations to Professor Gina Brown on her recent funding success.
September 2025
| Proposal Dept/Group | Worktribe PI Name | Worktribe Sponsor | Worktribe Proposal Title | Worktribe Awarded Value (£)** |
| Anaesthetics | Padmanabhan Ramnarayan | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | Stage 2: A randomised trial of aminophylline, magnesium or salbutamol intravenous therapy for acute severe asthma in children and young people | £17,771 |
| Anaesthetics | Suveer Singh | Westminster Medical School Research Trust | Improving Standards in Bronchoscopy in ICU – the role of AR | £120,001 |
| Anaesthetics | Brijesh Patel | Asthma + Lung UK | Better Respiratory weaning using Transparent Machine Learning and Data Visualisation for invasive mechanical ventilation | £180,001 |
| CRUK – ICR – Imperial Convergence Science Centre | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | CRUK Convergence Science Centre Non-Clinical PhD Studentships – Maths | £215,321 |
| CRUK – ICR – Imperial Convergence Science Centre | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | CRUK Convergence Science Centre Non-Clinical PhD studentships – Chemistry | £243,971 |
| General Surgery | Gaby Judah | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | NIHR Pre-application support fund | £28,669 |
| OG | Gina Brown | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | Assessing Lymph Node Count and Volume on Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Predict Prognosis Before Rectal Cancer Surgery: A Feasibility Study to Develop an Artificial Intelligence Tool | £592,291 |
** 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.