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 MRC IAA Round 2 (2023) Professor Tim Aitman Cell-free DNA as a biomarker of acute aortic syndrome Professor Andrew Baker Engineering cardiac trophic recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors Professor Sara Brown Hit-to-lead optimisation for a novel eczema target Professor Francesca Mutapi Developing and evaluating a prototype lateral flow test for schistosomiasis infection 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 MRC IAA Round 3 (2024) Professor David Ferenbach Validation of urinary prognostic biomarkers for chronic kidney disease Dr Milly Lo Development of a novel seizure detection tool for acute care Dr Lucy Whitaker Total body PET-CT for the diagnosis of endometriosis This article was published on 2024-09-09
