Research Grants

The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Chemical Research that are of particular relevance:

ICONIC
Christian Nielsen
£462,722 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-05-2024 - 30-04-2028)
TG: Cheminformatics and machine learning approaches for GPCR computer aided drug design
Arianna Fornili
£125,091 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
Wei Dai Studentship - Sosei Heptares
Arianna Fornili and Emma Grant
£21,600 Sosei Heptares (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
Innovations in ADC linker design - PhD studentship (AstraZeneca)
Christopher Jones and Stellios Arseniyadis
£60,000 AZ AstraZeneca UK Limited (18-09-2023 - 17-09-2027)
GreenX3: Innovative and sustainable materials, processes and technologies for a GREENer and circular economy
Marina Resmini
£782,028 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-09-2023 - 31-08-2027)
Optimizing CO2 mineralization: from atomistic detail to reactor design
Devis Di Tommaso and Gregory Chasse
£349,105 Leverhulme Trust (01-05-2024 - 30-04-2027)
Sequence-Defined Pi-Conjugated Materials - EPSRC CASE conversion
Christian Nielsen and Andrew Livingston
£62,500 CDT Cambridge Display Technology Limited (01-10-2023 - 31-03-2027)
Scalable Manufacturing of Single-Crystal Perovskite Optical and Electronic Devices: Follow-On
Lei Su and Stoichko Dimitrov
£941,955 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2026)
RS-NIF: Shedding Light on the Reactivity of Low-Valent Organoantimony Species: Yi-Chen Chan
Oriol Planas Fabrega
£414,804 Royal Society (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2026)
CTP Training Grant:
Arianna Fornili
£124,088 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026)
Structural bioinformatics and chemogenomics approaches to navigate GPCR ligand interaction space - CTP
Arianna Fornili
£123,282 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026)
Structural Bioinformatics and chemogenomics approaches
Arianna Fornili
£21,600 Sosei Heptares (26-09-2022 - 25-09-2026)
Cooperative Noble Base Metal Catalysis - EPSRC NIA
Oriol Planas Fabrega
£474,870 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-09-2023 - 31-08-2026)
The cardiovascular function of the orphan G-protein coupled receptor GPR20
Andrew Tinker, Peter McCormick, Arianna Fornili and Patricia Munroe
£307,773 BHF British Heart Foundation (01-05-2023 - 30-04-2026)
Half-funded PhD studentship (home fees)
Stellios Arseniyadis
£47,215 ORIL Industrie (01-10-2022 - 31-01-2026)
Fully-funded PhD studentship (home fees)
Stellios Arseniyadis
£82,779 ORIL Industrie (01-10-2022 - 31-01-2026)
Jochen Brandt URF Enhanced Research Expenses 2023
Jochen Brandt
£134,895 Royal Society (01-04-2023 - 05-01-2026)
URF including expenses - Jochen Brandt-GRANT TRANSFER
Jochen Brandt
£468,299 Royal Society (26-09-2022 - 05-01-2026)
RS International Exchange scheme: Tungsten-free superhard materials: Earth-abundant metal ternary borides solid solutions
Devis Di Tommaso
£11,000 Royal Society (01-11-2023 - 31-10-2025)
Bio-molecular nanocarbon junctions for low-power computing
Matteo Palma and Jan Mol
£95,848 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025)
INNOBA - MSCA PF 2022 Planas Fabrega/Fernandez Gonzalez
Oriol Planas Fabrega
£200,511 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2025)
Wetcat - MSCA PF 2021 Yao Lu/ Guo
Yao Lu
£190,380 EPSRC - EU Scheme (13-04-2023 - 12-04-2025)
Nanoscale Multicolour Photodetectors : DNA Nanotechnology for Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures
Matteo Palma
£129,999 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025)
Nanoscale Biosensing Devices: Fundamental Insight on the Sensing Mechanism
Matteo Palma
£230,206 Air Force office of Scientific Research (USA) (01-01-2021 - 28-02-2025)
FET Open 2020: Mixed Ionic and electronic Transport In Conjugated polymers for bioelectronics
Christian Nielsen
£268,744 EU Commission - Horizon 2020 (01-02-2021 - 31-01-2025)
Bio2Brain- ITN 2020 Marina Resmini
Marina Resmini
£454,144 EU Commission - Horizon 2020 (01-01-2021 - 31-12-2024)
New nanomaterials for neural stem cells drug delivery (NANOSTEM)
Marina Resmini
£839,758 EU Commission - Horizon 2020 (01-06-2018 - 31-12-2024)
Developing novel antibody tools to modulate GPR20
Andrew Tinker, Arianna Fornili, Ahuva Nissim and Peter McCormick
£74,766 Barts and the London Charity (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2024)
Contract research: Microwave-driven dry methane reforming
Xiangyu Jie
£57,783 HUNT ENERGY ENTERPRISES, L.L.C. (01-03-2024 - 31-10-2024)
Investigation of the impact of polymer brush hydrophobicity and conformational rigidity on oligonucleotide uptake
Ali Zarbakhsh
£1,030 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC) (12-09-2023 - 11-09-2024)
KTP with Exactmer
Matteo Palma and Jan Mol
£230,941 Innovate UK (01-09-2022 - 31-08-2024)