Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Bioengineering that have been flagged as being of particular relevance:
Unravelling mechanisms of drug-induced myocarditis using immune-responsive human cardiovascular chipYung-Yao Lin and Julien Gautrot
£121,420 MRC Medical Research Council (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2028)
Extreme heat and preterm birth in rural ZimbabweAndrew Prendergast, Andrew Russell, Melanie Smuk, Tina Chowdhury and Stamatina Iliodromiti
£460,147 Wellcome Trust (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2028)
Novel antibody encapsulation and release technology for tailored Medicine and Dentistry applicationsMichael Cattell, Angray Kang, Simon Rawlinson and Gleb Sukhorukov
£148,333 Barts and the London Charity (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2028)
Tommy’s National Preterm Birth Research CentreStamatina Iliodromiti, Tina Chowdhury and Steven Thornton
£432,791 Tommy's (01-04-2023 - 31-03-2028)
Epithelial Exchange Surfaces – From organizing principles to novel culture models of the gatekeepers of the body - MSCA-2022-DN Martin KnightMartin Knight, Hazel Screen, Wen Wang, Clare Thompson and Cleo Bishop
£260,676 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2027)
Re-profiled BRC 2022-27 Final - Precision Musculoskeletal CareJohn Whiteley, Costantino Pitzalis, Martin Knight, Gregory Slabaugh and Xavier Griffin
£3,343,541 NIHR National Institute for Health Research (01-12-2022 - 30-11-2027)
The role of novel mechanosensitive complex in cardiomyocyte pathophysiologyThomas Iskratsch and Andrew Tinker
£254,588 BHF British Heart Foundation (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027)
APP13387: Micro-manufacturing of tissue patterned organ-chips for accelerated deployment of new medicinesMartin Knight, Hazel Screen, Julien Gautrot, Timothy Hopkins, John Connelly, Liisa Blowes and Xavier Griffin
£1,787,725 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-07-2024 - 30-06-2027)
Mechanisms underlying preterm birth in women with HIV in rural ZimbabweAndrew Prendergast, Ruairi Robertson, Melanie Smuk, Claire Bourke, Nikolaos Donos, Robert Allaker, Abish Stephen, Conrad Bessant, Stefaan Verbruggen and Tina Chowdhury
£1,090,917 MRC Medical Research Council (01-05-2024 - 30-04-2027)
Talin dependent mechanical imprinting as driver for cardiac disease progressionThomas Iskratsch
£231,662 BHF British Heart Foundation (22-01-2024 - 21-01-2027)
Thermochemical patterning to generate Bionanoarrays: Studentship Rachel SmythThomas Iskratsch
£9,000 Heidelberg Instruments Nano AG (18-01-2024 - 17-01-2027)
Artery-on-a-Chip (S&E flexible match-funded PhD studentship)Thomas Iskratsch
£103,372 Novo Nordisk Foundation (Denmark) (01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026)
Mapping populations to patients: designing optimal ablation therapy for atrial fibrillation through simulation and deep learning of digital twins (UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship)Caroline Roney
£1,224,259 MRC Medical Research Council (01-11-2022 - 31-10-2026)
Incorporating physical cues in organ-chip modelsHazel Screen and Martin Knight
£20,000 Emulate Inc. (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026)
G1F1Application of a new high throughput platform for validation of mechanosensitive miRNARob Krams and Gleb Sukhorukov
£117,986 BHF British Heart Foundation (01-09-2023 - 31-08-2026)
Engineered Recombinant Strategies to Organogel Design for Food Product FormulationsJulien Gautrot
£32,500 Motif Food Works Inc (01-09-2022 - 31-08-2026)
Human synovium-cartilage organ-chip for personalised surgical screening - Tim Hopkins - fellowshipMartin Knight
£311,202 AR-UK Versus Arthritis (01-04-2022 - 30-06-2026)
Targeting epigenetic gene regulation in epidermolysis bullosa simplexJohn Connelly, Julien Gautrot and David Kelsell
£199,751 Action Medical Research (01-06-2023 - 31-05-2026)
Development and Validation of Smartphone-Based Tools for Characterisation of Gait - QMUL-HUMA KTPCaroline Roney, Tsz Ho Tse, Dylan Morrissey, Stuart Miller, Trevor Prior and Gregory Slabaugh
£227,485 Innovate UK (10-04-2024 - 09-04-2026)
On-Demand Targeted RNA Delivery Nanotheranostics for Glioblastoma TreatmentSilvia Marino and Julien Gautrot
£184,106 Barts and the London Charity (01-03-2023 - 01-04-2026)
Engineering the fetal membranes- linked to 404873Tina Chowdhury
£30,000 Prenatal Charity UCL EGA INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH (01-12-2018 - 21-03-2026)
Development of an Organ-on-a-chip model of polycystic kidney disease using CRISPR modified human kidMartin Knight and Cleo Bishop
£39,986 Kidney Research UK (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2025)
Tomo-SAXS: Imaging full-field molecular-to-macroscale biophysics of fibrous tissuesHimadri Gupta
£451,556 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (26-04-2021 - 25-10-2025)
Virtual Atria with Personalised Electrophysiology for Atrial Fibrillation Therapy Planning - SEMS Industry-supported PhD StudentshipCaroline Roney and Thomas Iskratsch
£25,000 Acutus Medical UK Ltd (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025)
How does ageing related loss of basement membrane collagen regulate epidermal barrier homeostasisEdel O'Toole, Julien Gautrot and Matthew Caley
£64,000 Unilever UK Ltd (01-10-2021 - 30-09-2025)
How does ageing related loss of basement membrane collagen regulate epidermal barrier homeostasisEdel O'Toole, Julien Gautrot and Matthew Caley
£116,545 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (27-09-2021 - 26-09-2025)
NIH Development of Contactless Vital Sign SensorsTsz Ho Tse
£112,781 NIH National Institutes of Health - USA (25-09-2022 - 31-08-2025)
ProNaGen: Engineering of Recombinant Protein Nanosheet-Based Bioemulsions for Next Generation Bioprocessing and BiomanufacturingJulien Gautrot
£125,329 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-11-2023 - 30-04-2025)
Harmonised IAA grant - Improve and accelerate the impact of QMUL research EPSRCDavid Lee and Yang Hao
£733,724 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-04-2022 - 31-03-2025)
Harmonised IAA grant - Improve and accelerate the impact of QMUL research BBSRCDavid Lee and Viji Draviam Sastry
£350,000 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-04-2022 - 31-03-2025)
Harmonised IAA grant - Improve and accelerate the impact of QMUL research MRCMauro Perretti, Tatjana Crnogorac-Jurcevic and David Lee
£357,000 MRC Medical Research Council (01-04-2022 - 31-03-2025)
Professorship-GRANT TRANSFERTsz Ho Tse
£497,258 AMS Academy of Medical Sciences (31-03-2022 - 30-03-2025)
Bioresorbable bioactive composites Kick offKarin Hing and Emiliano Bilotti
£50,243 Baxter Healthcare Corporation (11-01-2021 - 22-01-2025)
Automatic Posture and Balance Support for Supernumerary Robotic LimbsIldar Farkhatdinov
£373,313 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-01-2021 - 31-12-2024)
Wearable ultrasound sensor for vascular access home monitoringLei Su and Haixue Yan
£25,000 Kidney Research UK (01-01-2023 - 31-12-2024)
Fluid dynamics of deformable capsules enclosed in a microdroplet (Royal Society International Exchange Scheme)Yi Sui
£12,000 Royal Society (06-12-2021 - 05-12-2024)
Development of functional 3D eccrine sweat gland modelThomas Iskratsch and John Connelly
£79,541 Unilever UK Ltd (04-10-2021 - 03-10-2024)
Bioactive bioresorbable composites for load bearing guided bone regenerationKarin Hing
£29,000 Baxter Healthcare Corporation (01-10-2020 - 30-09-2024)
Engineering Circadian Biology into Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Organ-on-a-Chip modelsDavid Lee and Yung-Yao Lin
£201,874 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-02-2022 - 31-08-2024)
Engineered Protein Nanosheets at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces for Stem Cell Expansion, Sorting and Tissue Engineering (PROLICELL)Julien Gautrot
£1,499,542 EU Commission - Horizon 2020 (01-09-2018 - 31-08-2024)
Production of a Human Growth Plate Organ-Chip Model of Skeletal DevelopmentMartin Knight, Clare Thompson and Hazel Screen
£197,923 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-02-2023 - 31-07-2024)
KTP AKT (QMUL-Lucideon) - Radio Opaque Cements and Osteoclast Testing: Traceable Bio-Remodellable CementsKarin Hing and Simon Rawlinson
£41,283 Innovate UK (25-03-2024 - 24-07-2024)
EPSRC Core Equipment Award 2022Wen Wang, Isabelle Mareschal, Massimo Poesio and Michael Reece
£875,000 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (03-01-2023 - 02-07-2024)
Dual targeting and triggered delivery of biomacromolecules from layer-by-layer decorated gas filledGleb Sukhorukov and David Gould
£292,163 Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (01-07-2022 - 01-07-2024)
Organ-on-a-chip model of breast cancer bone metastasesMartin Knight and Oliver Pearce
£268,711 CR-UK Cancer Research UK (01-01-2021 - 30-06-2024)
MICA: Organ-on-a-chip models for safety testing of regenerative medicine productsHazel Screen and Martin Knight
£473,324 MRC Medical Research Council (24-08-2020 - 24-05-2024)