Well done to all Principal Investigators in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our monthly round-up of funding successes*.
| Proposal Dept/Group | Infoed PI Name | Infoed Proposal Title | Student | Infoed Original Sponsor | Infoed Awarded Value* |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Professor Phillip Bennett | Metabonomic profiling of early preimplantation human embryos | Genesis Research Trust | 48,420 | |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Professor Christoph Lees | TRUFFLE 2 Randomised Trial of Late Growth Restriction | Imperial Health Charity | 62,333 | |
| CSM and Bioinformatics | Professor Elaine Holmes | INTERLIPIDS MWAS STUDY | Shiga University of Medical Science | 182,000 | |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Professor Phillip Bennett | Clinical lecturer funding Lynne Sykes | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 60,653 | |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Dr Edward Mullins | Establishing the normal range for intrapartum glycaemia in non-diabetic women | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 10,163 | |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Dr Tom Bourne | Local vaginal oestradiol levels and the vaginal microbiome in women with successive pregnancies | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 14,125 | |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Professor Phillip Bennett | Funding for Band 6 Research Nurse/Midwife – Women’s Health Research Centre | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 34,404 | |
| Hepatology and Gastroenterology | Professor Julian Marchesi | Rohma Ghani BIA application – Mechanisms of efficacy of Faecal Microbiota Transplantation for the intestinal decolonisation of MDROs | Rohma Ghani | British Infection Association (BIA) | 20,000 |
| Endocrinology | Dr Alexander Miras | ICHT Divisional Research Projects Application – Dr Alex Miras | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 14,904 | |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Professor Christoph Lees | Feasibility of pre-conception interventions to lower blood pressure | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 36,787 | |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Dr Maria Kyrgiou | The use of laser assisted rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry (REIMS) as a real-time beside test in cervical cancer screening. | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding | 80,000 | |
| Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology | Dr David MacIntyre | Development and validation of a non-invasive diagnostic tool of intra-amniotic infection/inflammation in vaginal fluid based on metabolomics and microbiome (Hospital Clinic de Barcelona) | Fundacio Clinic Per La Recerca Biomedica | 4,800 | |
| Hepatology and Gastroenterology | Dr Pinelopi Manousou | Exploring the gut microbiome ad microbial metabolites as potential therapeutic targets in patients with Diabetes and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (FR420) | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | 6,000 | |
| Investigative Medicine | Dr Ben Jones | EFSD/Boehringer Ingelheim European Research Programme on multi-system challenges in diabetes | European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes | 76,154 |
*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.