Congratulations to Professor George Hanna 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.*
January 2025
| Proposal Dept/Group | PI Name | Sponsor | Proposal Title | Awarded Value (£)** |
| Cancer | Charlotte Bevan | Africa Research Excellence Fund Limited | Functional analysis of Methylation Marks In Prostate Cancer Using Cell Culture | £33,184 |
| Cancer | Hector Keun | UKRI UK Research and Innovation | Healthy Sustainable Places: a systems approach to understanding how to harness the power of local places to improve population health and reduce inequality | £261,108 |
| General Surgery | Gaby Judah | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | A community champion led breast cancer screening intervention for underserved groups | £973,345 |
| Oesophageal-gastric | George Hanna | The Dewan Foundation Limited | Breath test platform for abdominal cancers | £225,000 |
| Oesophageal-gastric | George Hanna | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | NIHR Imperial Healthtech Research Centre | £2,918,771 |
| Urology | Hashim Ahmed | Prostate Cancer UK | A randomised controlled trial to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of PSMA PET imaging to stage newly diagnosed high risk prostate cancer compared to standard care CT and bonescan imaging | £1,893,036 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | CLARITY | £19,922 |
February 2025
Congratulations to Professor Colin Bicknell on his recent funding success.
| Proposal Dept/Group | PI Name | Sponsor | Proposal Title | Awarded Value (£)** |
| Anaesthetics | Padmanabhan Ramnarayan | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | APPLICATION: Combining treatment effects from clinical trial data and routinely collected healthcare data to answer important research questions | £16,645 |
| Anaesthetics | Padmanabhan Ramnarayan | Action Medical Research | Improving diagnosis of chest infections in sick children on ventilators | £199,978 |
| Cancer | Eric Aboagye | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust | Never smoking lung cancer radiomics pump priming | £35,039 |
| Cancer | Claire Fletcher | Prostate Cancer UK | Targeting Adipose: Prostate Communication for Improved Prostate Cancer Outcomes in Obesity-Driven Prostate Cancer | £526,592 |
| Cancer | Mitch Chen | MRC Medical Research Council (MRC) | Spatially resolved radio-transcriptomic profiling of non-small cell lung cancer for precision medicine in checkpoint blockade immunotherapy | £2,379,326 |
| Cancer | Olivier Pardo | Bone Cancer Research Trust | Using vasculature-mimicking microfluidic systems to identify molecular changes associated with circulating osteosarcoma cells | £34,792 |
| Hamlyn Centre | Alexander Thompson | Nxera Pharma UK Limited | Transcutaneous fluorescence sensing of GI permeability in humans | £331,208 |
| Urology | Rakesh Heer | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | The ELIPSE Study – a randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of lymph node removal in patients undergoing curative surgery for localised high-risk prostate cancer | £73,677 |
| Vascular | Janet Powell | Medtronic Limited | Women’s Aneurysm Research: Repair Immediately or Routine Surveillance, Trial and Registry | £230,200 |
| Vascular | Colin Bicknell | NIHR National Institute for Health Research | EARNEST Study | £2,833,223 |
March 2025
Congratulations to Professor Alun Davies on his recent funding success.
| Proposal Dept/Group | PI Name | Sponsor | Proposal Title | Awarded Value (£)** |
| APMIC | Hew Torrance | The Academy of Medical Sciences | Grant | £29,995 |
| General Surgery | Daniel Leff | Stryker European Operations Limited | Enhanced Precision in Breast Cancer Surgery | £156,694 |
| Oesophageal-gastric | Gwen Murphy | The Royal Society | Establishing feasibility of air quality field studies in a high incidence region of oesophageal squamous cell cancer | £29,520 |
| Vascular | Colin Bicknell | Vascutek Ltd | WARRIORS trial – Additional funding | £114,286 |
| Vascular | Alun Davies | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | Post | £222,176 |
** 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.