Congratulations to Dr Christopher Mullington 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 2026
| Proposal Dept/Group | Worktribe PI Name | Worktribe Sponsor | Worktribe Proposal Title | Worktribe Awarded Value (£)** |
| Anaesthetics | Anthony Gordon | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust-BRC Funding | BRC Nursing Post | £276,112 |
| Musculoskeletal | Christopher Mullington | Ministry of Defence | Predicting the maximum safe wear-time time for work in CBRN PPE through task performance: a personalised approach to work-rest guidance | £283,607 |
| Urology | Rakesh Heer | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | COBRA | £84,943 |
Congratulations to Dr Matthew Williams on his recent funding success.
May 2026
| Proposal Dept/Group | Worktribe PI Name | Worktribe Sponsor | Worktribe Proposal Title | Worktribe Awarded Value (£)** |
| Cancer | Matthew Williams | MacMillan Cancer Support | INDIGO-2 – INvestigating DIGital Outcomes in the Community | £322,000 |
Congratulations to Professor Hashim Ahmed on his recent funding success.
June 2026
| Proposal Dept/Group | Worktribe PI Name | Worktribe Sponsor | Worktribe Proposal Title | Worktribe Awarded Value (£)** |
| Cancer | Christina Fotopoulou | Gynaecology Cancer Research Fund T/A The Eve Appeal | Early detection tool for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer using a Novel Bio-functional Swab | £19,794 |
| CRUK – ICR | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | 2025 CRUK Convergence Science Centre Studentship | £127,353 |
| CRUK – ICR | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | 2026 CRUK Convergence Science Centre Studentship | £127,354 |
| CRUK – ICR | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | 2026 CRUK Convergence Science Centre Studentship | £127,354 |
| CRUK – ICR | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | 2026 CRUK Convergence Science Centre Studentship | £127,354 |
| CRUK – ICR | Axel Behrens | CRUK Cancer Research UK | 2026 CRUK Convergence Science Centre Studentship | £127,355 |
| General Surgery | Ara Darzi | Bukhman Family Foundation | Bukhman Philanthropies – Growing Up With AI | £298,400 |
| Oesophageal-gastric | Piers Boshier | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | £344,299 | |
| Urology | Hashim Ahmed | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | Improving the risk benefit ratio of prostate cancer screening with MRI | £537,132 |
** 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.


