Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour that are of particular relevance:
- Characterising complementary cardiovascular and behavioural measures of fear suppression
John Apergis-Schoute
£160,305 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
05-01-2026 - 04-01-2027 - Online risks and resilience in children’s daily lives (ORChiD)
Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne and Yun Fai Lau
£496,634 The Huo Family Foundation
01-01-2026 - 31-12-2028 - Predicting response to sleep deprivation and rTMS treatment for depression: an AI/ML-guided assess
Nikolina Jovanovic and Valdas Noreika
£71,894 Barts and the London Charity
01-01-2026 - 31-12-2026 - Investigating the combined impact of behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders on education.
Margherita Malanchini, Giorgia Michelini and Jessica Agnew-Blais
£943,596 Medical Research Council
16-10-2025 - 15-10-2028 - PreciVision MSCA PF 2024 Chittka/Scaccabarozzi
Lars Chittka
£217,591 EU Commission - Horizon EuropeGrant Summary
01-09-2025 - 31-08-2027 - Epigenetic Signatures of Neurodevelopmental Conditions
Margherita Malanchini
£4,865 Jacobs Foundation
01-08-2025 - 31-07-2026 - Online Parent Training for the Initial Management of ADHD Referrals
Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
£24,750 National Institute for Health Research
01-08-2025 - 31-07-2026 - Brain Injury, Sleep and Cognition - Untangling the long term Impact of childhood TBI (Michael Yoong)
Michael Yoong and Bosiljka Milosavljevic
£66,357 Barts and the London Charity
01-06-2025 - 30-11-2026 - UKRI Cross-Research Council: ANIMATING MINDS: Triangulating the age-appropriate impact of children’s media
Rachael Bedford
£319,763 Medical Research CouncilGrant Summary
01-02-2025 - 31-01-2027 - Understanding the combined impact of behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders on learning
Margherita Malanchini
£133,787 Jacobs Foundation
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2027 - VoCs - MSCA Doctoral Network (2023) Lavan
Nadine Lavan
£267,922 EPSRC - EU SchemeGrant Summary
01-12-2024 - 30-11-2028 - International Exchanges 2023: Brain-wide circuits for spatial computation in Zebrafish
Guifen Chen
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2024 - 30-03-2026 - The neural basis of inter-species communication
Valdas Noreika
£155,098 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilGrant Summary
14-02-2024 - 13-02-2026 - Addressing key evidence gaps in the science of insect sentience
Lars Chittka
£719,449 Good Ventures FoundationGrant Summary
01-01-2024 - 01-07-2027 - Adolescent Mental Health and Development in the Digital World
Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne
£10,114 Medical Research Council
18-09-2023 - 31-03-2026 - Enhancing national cyber resilience via SME cyber security and digital responsibility
Maria Bada
£328,119 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-09-2023 - 28-02-2026 - A life course approach to understanding ADHD among women
Jessica Agnew-Blais and Stamatina Iliodromiti
£491,761 MRC Medical Research Council
01-08-2023 - 31-07-2026 - Discovering missing links in neuropeptide evolution and function
Maurice Elphick and Arianna Fornili
£576,040 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilGrant Summary
01-06-2023 - 31-05-2026 - Freedom of choice in decision-making: Introspecting the cause of our actions-GRANT TRANSFER
Lucie Charles
£395,472 Economic and Social Research Council
01-10-2022 - 16-11-2026 - Building spatial maps from visual and self-motion inputs
Guifen Chen
£492,794 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-02-2022 - 26-07-2027 - PhD Programme: Gambling Harms
Janelle Jones and Jessica Agnew-Blais
£156,538 GambleAware
01-02-2022 - 30-09-2026 - Generalisation from limited experience: how to solve the problem of induction
Elisabetta Versace
£269,334 Leverhulme Trust
23-08-2021 - 31-03-2026 - NIH: Zebrafish addiction screen
Caroline Brennan
£466,209 National Institutes of Health - USA
01-08-2018 - 31-05-2026
