Previous awards
Recently funded projects
| MRC IAA Round 1 (2022) | |
| Dr Kevin Myant | Development of a Kras splicing inhibitor for treatment of colorectal cancer |
| Dr Douglas Gibson | Rapid non-invasive diagnosis of endometriosis using circulating biomarkers |
| Dr Grant Mair | Clinical development of a tool for estimating onset time of ischaemic stroke from a CT scan |
| Dr Vanessa Smer Baretto | Novel AI-enabled chemical design platform for diseases of unmet need |
| Professor Elizabeth Patton | Accelerating the preclinical development of ROS-generating suicide inhibitors for cancer treatment |
| Professor David Ferenbach | Stratifying Chronic Kidney Disease patient risk to enable precision medicine approaches |
| Professor Jonathan Fallowfield | Evaluating extracellular vesicles as antifibrotics for the treatment of liver fibrosis |
| Dr Yunjie Yang | Development of perceptive soft surgical robotics |
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MRC IAA Round 2 (2023) |
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Professor Tim Aitman |
Cell-free DNA as a biomarker of acute aortic syndrome |
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Professor Andrew Baker |
Engineering cardiac trophic recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors |
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Professor Sara Brown |
Hit-to-lead optimisation for a novel eczema target |
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Professor Francesca Mutapi |
Developing and evaluating a prototype lateral flow test for schistosomiasis infection |
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Dr Ashita Singh |
Targeting novel enzyme targets to overcome treatment resistance in glioblastoma multiforme |
| Professor Jose Vazquez-Boland | Peptide-based precision anti-infectives for prophylaxis and treatment of foodborne listeriosis |
| Dr Qiang Wang | Rapid and precise profiling of tissue biomarker expressions using label-free autofluorescence lifetime images |
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MRC IAA Round 3 (2024) |
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Professor David Ferenbach |
Validation of urinary prognostic biomarkers for chronic kidney disease |
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Dr Milly Lo |
Development of a novel seizure detection tool for acute care |
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Dr Lucy Whitaker |
Total body PET-CT for the diagnosis of endometriosis |