Grants Policy
Information on our Grants Policy is contained in the following documents:
- Research Strategy
- Scientific Advisory Committee Constitution
Conflict of Interest Policy
- Use of Animals in Research
Current Grant Offers
There are currently no grants being offered. The next call for Innovation Grants is likely to be posted early in 2025.
Recent Grants Awarded
2024
Dr Matthew Blunt (supervisor) £110,000
Faculty of Medicine
PhD studentship
Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Immune Cell: Cancer Cell interactions in a 3D Lymph Node Model.
Dr Tim Fenton (supervisor) £59,880
Faculty of Medicine
PhD studentship jointly funded with the Centre for Cancer Immunology
Establishing 3D culture model systems to study how inflammation subverts control of cell fate during carcinogenesis.
Dr Emily Gwyer Findlay (supervisor) £53,988
Faculty of the Environment and Life Sciences
PhD studentship jointly funded with Rosetrees Trust
Investigating human T cell development in lymph nodes.
Professor Mark Young (supervisor) £47,014
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
PhD studentship jointly funded with a Tizard studentship
Fatigue risk management in healthcare: a wake-up call.
Dr Triana Amen £18,124
Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences
Innovation Grant
Molecular regulation of peroxisome formation and function in Peroxisome Biogenesis Disorders.
Dr Giorgia Chiodin £18,000
Faculty of Medicine
Innovation Grant
Investigating the consequences of immunoglobulin variable region N-glycosylation in Burkitt lymphone (BL).
Dr Ben Gaastra £20,000
Faculty of Medicine
Innovation Grant
The sphingosine-1-phosphate signalling pathway and ourcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid heamorrhage.
Dr Carmen Jacob £20,000
Faculty of Medicine
Innovation Grant
Haemolysis in Multiple Sclerosis (HIMS) pilot study.
Dr Nela Nikolic £19,900
Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences
Innovation Grant
Phage therapy to treat unrinary tract infections.
Dr Bonnie Ng £19,973
Faculty of Medicine
Innovation Grant
Using single cell RNA sequencing and proteomics to uncover novel immunotherapeutic targets for implantation disorders.
2023
Dr Jane Cleal (supervisor) £50,000
Faculty of Medicine
PhD studentship jointly funded with Rosetrees Trust
Can endometrial gland structure and function help us understand why some women are more at risk of miscarriage than others?
Dr Jane Gibson (supervisor) £55,000
Faculty of Medicine
PhD studentship jointly funded with the Centre for Cancer Immunology
Investigating the genomic structure, regulation and function of the low affinity FCGR cluster to improve cancer immunotherapy
Professor Jonathan Swann (supervisor) £110,000
Faculty of Medicine
PhD studentship
Calculating neonatal biochemical age at the bedside to transform paediatric nutrition.
Dr Ella Baker £15,100
Faculty of Medicine
Innovation Grant
Understanding the anti-inflammatory actions of pinolenic acid, a sustainable alternative to EPA and DHA.
Dr George Williams £19,984
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Innovation Grant
Polymer conjugates for advanced imaging and drug delivery to study and treat pancreatic ductal adenocarcenoma.
Dr Colleen Deane £19,600
Faculty of Medicine
Innovation Grant
Using metabolomics to uncover novel biological markers of, and targeted nutritional interventions to offset, age-related musculoskeletal decline.
Dr Jodie Ackland £19,878
Faculty of Medicine
Innovation Grant
Using triple RNASeq to investigate macrophage-bacterial-viral interactions during co-infection
Dr Ysobel Baker £19,785
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Innovation Grant
A new class of RNA degrading therapeutic oligonucleotides
2022
Dr Juliet Gray (supervisor) £55,000
Faculty of Medicine
PhD Studentship jointly funded with the Centre for Cancer Immunology
Enhancing anti-GD2 chemo-immunotherapy in pre-clinical neuroblastoma models.
Professor Karen Lillycrop (supervisor) £31,386
Faculty of the Environment and Life Sciences
PhD Studensthip jointly funded with Rosetrees Trust
Identifying the causes of muscle stem cell aging and novel therapeutics strategies
Dr Yury Bogdanov (supervisor) £55,000
Faculty of Medicine
PhD Studentship jointly funded with the Centre for Cancer Immunology
Deciphering the role of GABAergic signalling in tumour vascularization.
Dr Niall Hanrahan £17,917
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Innovation Grant
Raman-on-a-chip for label-free and culture-free identification of VBNCs
Dr Jade Forster £19,943
Faculty of Medicine
Innovation Grant
Identifying the underlying molecular mechanisms and alterations of the high-risk neuroblastoma tumour microenvironment in TH-MYCN mice treated with anti-GD2 antibody therapy.
Dr Andrew Shapanis £19,900
Faculty of the Environment and Life Sciences
Innovation Grant
Development and optimisation of a serum based early cancer diagnostic system.
2021
Dr Zöe Walters (supervisor) £50,000
Faculty of Medicine
PhD Studentship jointly funded with Rosetrees Trust
Investigating the therapeutic efficacy of EZH2 inhibitors for the treatment of diseases with pathogenic histone modifying enzyme mutations.
2020
Dr Edd James (supervisor) £50,000
Faculty of Medicine
PhD Studentship jointly funded with the Centre for Cancer Immunology Talent Fund
Understanding the relationship between the breadth of the anti–cancer CD8 T cell response and successful immunotherapy.
Dr Rob Ewing (supervisor) £40,228
Faculty of the Environmental & Life Sciences
PhD Studentship jointly funded with Rosetrees Trust
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of Zika virus – driven oncolysis of brain tumour stem cells
2019
Dr Ali Roghanian (supervisor) £98,473
Faculty of Medicine
PhD Studentship
The role of FcgRIIb in alpha-synuclein toxicity and propagation through the brain in Parkinson’s Disease
