{"id":3598,"date":"2025-04-29T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:04:20","slug":"funding-successes-q1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2025\/04\/29\/funding-successes-q1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding successes: Q1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/2025\/04\/29\/funding-successes-q1-2025\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2025\/04\/George_Hanna_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"502\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3603\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2025\/04\/George_Hanna_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Professor George Hanna on his recent funding success.<\/p>\n<p><b>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.*<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>January 2025<\/h2>\n<table width=\"1666\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\"><strong>Proposal Dept\/Group<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"339\"><strong>PI Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"277\"><strong>Sponsor\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"479\"><strong>Proposal Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"224\"><strong>Awarded Value (\u00a3)**<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cancer<\/td>\n<td>Charlotte Bevan<\/td>\n<td>Africa Research Excellence Fund Limited<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Functional analysis of Methylation Marks In Prostate Cancer Using Cell Culture<\/td>\n<td>\u00a333,184<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cancer<\/td>\n<td>Hector Keun<\/td>\n<td>UKRI UK Research and Innovation<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Healthy Sustainable Places: a systems approach to understanding how to harness the power of local places to improve population health and reduce inequality<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3261,108<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>General Surgery<\/td>\n<td>Gaby Judah<\/td>\n<td>NIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">A community champion led breast cancer screening intervention for underserved groups<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3973,345<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oesophageal-gastric<\/td>\n<td>George Hanna<\/td>\n<td>The Dewan Foundation Limited<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Breath test platform for abdominal cancers<\/td>\n<td>\u00a3225,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oesophageal-gastric<\/td>\n<td>George Hanna<\/td>\n<td>NIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">NIHR Imperial Healthtech Research Centre<\/td>\n<td>\u00a32,918,771<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Urology<\/td>\n<td>Hashim Ahmed<\/td>\n<td>Prostate Cancer UK<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">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<\/td>\n<td>\u00a31,893,036<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vascular<\/td>\n<td>Alun Davies<\/td>\n<td>NIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">CLARITY<\/td>\n<td>\u00a319,922<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2025\/04\/Colin-Bicknell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2025\/04\/Colin-Bicknell.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>February 2025<\/h2>\n<p>Congratulations to Professor Colin Bicknell on his recent funding success.<\/p>\n<table width=\"1666\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\"><strong>Proposal Dept\/Group<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"339\"><strong>PI Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"277\"><strong>Sponsor\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"479\"><strong>Proposal Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"224\"><strong>Awarded Value (\u00a3)**<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Anaesthetics<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Padmanabhan Ramnarayan<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">NIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">APPLICATION: Combining treatment effects from clinical trial data and routinely collected healthcare data to answer important research questions<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a316,645<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Anaesthetics<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Padmanabhan Ramnarayan<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">Action Medical Research<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Improving diagnosis of chest infections in sick children on ventilators<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a3199,978<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Cancer<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Eric Aboagye<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Never smoking lung cancer radiomics pump priming<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a335,039<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Cancer<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Claire Fletcher<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">Prostate Cancer UK<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Targeting Adipose: Prostate Communication for Improved Prostate Cancer Outcomes in Obesity-Driven Prostate Cancer<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a3526,592<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Cancer<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Mitch Chen<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">MRC Medical Research Council (MRC)<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Spatially resolved radio-transcriptomic profiling of non-small cell lung cancer for precision medicine in checkpoint blockade immunotherapy<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a32,379,326<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Cancer<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Olivier Pardo<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">Bone Cancer Research Trust<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Using vasculature-mimicking microfluidic systems to identify molecular changes associated with circulating osteosarcoma cells<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a334,792<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Hamlyn Centre<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Alexander Thompson<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">Nxera Pharma UK Limited<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Transcutaneous fluorescence sensing of GI permeability in humans<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a3331,208<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Urology<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Rakesh Heer<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">NIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">The ELIPSE Study &#8211; a randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical and cost\u00a0 effectiveness of lymph node removal in patients undergoing curative surgery for\u00a0 localised high-risk prostate cancer<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a373,677<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Vascular<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Janet Powell<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">Medtronic Limited<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Women&#8217;s Aneurysm Research: Repair Immediately or Routine Surveillance, Trial and Registry<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a3230,200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Vascular<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Colin Bicknell<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">NIHR National Institute for Health Research<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">EARNEST Study<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a32,833,223<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2025\/04\/Alun-Davies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3601\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/surgeryandcancer\/files\/2025\/04\/Alun-Davies.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>March 2025<\/h2>\n<p>Congratulations to Professor Alun Davies on his recent funding success.<\/p>\n<table width=\"1666\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\"><strong>Proposal Dept\/Group<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"339\"><strong>PI Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"277\"><strong>Sponsor\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"479\"><strong>Proposal Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"224\"><strong>Awarded Value (\u00a3)**<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">APMIC<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Hew Torrance<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">The Academy of Medical Sciences<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Grant<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a329,995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">General Surgery<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Daniel Leff<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">Stryker European Operations Limited<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Enhanced Precision in Breast Cancer Surgery<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a3156,694<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Oesophageal-gastric<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Gwen Murphy<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">The Royal Society<\/td>\n<td width=\"479\">Establishing feasibility of air quality field studies in a high incidence region of oesophageal squamous cell cancer<\/td>\n<td width=\"224\">\u00a329,520<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"347\">Vascular<\/td>\n<td width=\"339\">Colin Bicknell<\/td>\n<td width=\"277\">Vascutek 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