Research Grants

Portable Luminescent Chemical Compass
Lei Su
£240,176 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-01-2025 - 31-12-2027)

ULTIMATES MSCA PF 2023 Sui/Wang
Yi Sui
£206,086 EPSRC - EU Scheme (12-11-2024 - 11-11-2026)

Organ-chip Facility: A world-class in vitro models facility for the UK community, reducing the barriers to adoption to drive animal replacement
Hazel Screen, Stefaan Verbruggen, Martin Knight, Julia Shelton, Timothy Hopkins and John Connelly
£573,537 NC3Rs National Center for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (07-10-2024 - 14-03-2025)

APP13387: Micro-manufacturing of tissue patterned organ-chips for accelerated deployment of new medicines
Martin Knight, Hazel Screen, Julien Gautrot, Timothy Hopkins, John Connelly, Liisa Blowes and Xavier Griffin
£1,787,725 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027)

Clock-Chips - Incorporating the Circadian Clock into Organ-on-a-Chip Technology
David Lee and Lei Su
£387,326 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2024 - 31-03-2026)

Customizable conducting elastomers for bioelectronics sensors
Christopher Chapman
£20,000 Royal Society (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025)

The role of novel mechanosensitive complex in cardiomyocyte pathophysiology
Thomas Iskratsch and Andrew Tinker
£254,588 BHF British Heart Foundation (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027)

Unravelling mechanisms of drug-induced myocarditis using immune-responsive human cardiovascular chip
Yung-Yao Lin and Julien Gautrot
£121,420 MRC Medical Research Council (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2028)

Development and Validation of Smartphone-Based Tools for Characterisation of Gait - QMUL-HUMA KTP
Caroline Roney, Zion Tse, Dylan Morrissey, Stuart Miller, Trevor Prior and Greg Slabaugh
£227,485 Innovate UK (01-08-2024 - 31-07-2026)

(EPSRC CDT 2023) Next Generation Organ-on-a-Chip Technologies
Hazel Screen, Martin Knight, Thomas Iskratsch, Caroline Roney, Yi Sui, David Lee, Julia Shelton, Zion Tse, John Connelly, Adrian Biddle and Lucy Norling
£7,066,811 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-07-2024 - 30-09-2032)

Mechanisms underlying preterm birth in women with HIV in rural Zimbabwe
Andrew Prendergast, Ruairi Robertson, Melanie Smuk, Claire Bourke, Nikolaos Donos, Robert Allaker, Abish Stephen, Conrad Bessant, Stefaan Verbruggen and Tina Chowdhury
£1,142,315 MRC Medical Research Council (01-05-2024 - 30-04-2027)

Microbiome-Bone Chip
Stefaan Verbruggen and Ravinash Krishna Kumar
£117,511 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025)

Novel antibody encapsulation and release technology for tailored Medicine and Dentistry applications
Michael Cattell, Angray Kang, Simon Rawlinson and Gleb Sukhorukov
£148,333 Barts and the London Charity (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2028)

Scalable Manufacturing of Single-Crystal Perovskite Optical and Electronic Devices: Follow-On
Lei Su, Oliver Fenwick, Colin Crick and Stoichko Dimitrov
£941,955 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-03-2024 - 28-02-2027)

Talin dependent mechanical imprinting as driver for cardiac disease progression
Thomas Iskratsch
£231,663 BHF British Heart Foundation (22-01-2024 - 21-01-2027)

Thermochemical patterning to generate Bionanoarrays: Studentship Rachel Smyth
Thomas 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)

Development of an Organ-on-a-chip model of polycystic kidney disease using CRISPR modified human kid
Martin Knight and Cleo Bishop
£39,986 Kidney Research UK (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2025)

Epithelial Exchange Surfaces – From organizing principles to novel culture models of the gatekeepers of the body - MSCA-2022-DN Martin Knight
Martin Knight, Hazel Screen, Wen Wang, Clare Thompson and Cleo Bishop
£260,676 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-12-2023 - 30-11-2027)

ProNaGen: Engineering of Recombinant Protein Nanosheet-Based Bioemulsions for Next Generation Bioprocessing and Biomanufacturing
Julien Gautrot
£127,041 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-11-2023 - 30-04-2025)

Extreme heat and preterm birth in rural Zimbabwe
Andrew Prendergast, Andrew Russell, Melanie Smuk, Tina Chowdhury and Stamatina Iliodromiti
£460,148 Wellcome Trust (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2028)

G1F1Application of a new high throughput platform for validation of mechanosensitive miRNA
Rob Krams and Gleb Sukhorukov
£117,986 BHF British Heart Foundation (01-09-2023 - 31-08-2026)

Integrated Human-Augmented Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Platform for Precision Viticulture
Ketao Zhang and Lei Su
£297,599 Innovate UK (01-09-2023 - 31-08-2026)

Targeting epigenetic gene regulation in epidermolysis bullosa simplex
John Connelly, Julien Gautrot and David Kelsell
£199,751 Action Medical Research (01-06-2023 - 31-05-2026)

Tommy’s National Preterm Birth Research Centre
Stamatina Iliodromiti, Tina Chowdhury and Steven Thornton
£432,791 Tommy's (01-04-2023 - 31-03-2028)

On-Demand Targeted RNA Delivery Nanotheranostics for Glioblastoma Treatment
Silvia Marino and Julien Gautrot
£184,106 Barts and the London Charity (01-03-2023 - 01-04-2026)

Re-profiled BRC 2022-27 Final - Precision Musculoskeletal Care
John Whiteley, Costantino Pitzalis, Martin Knight, Greg Slabaugh and Xavier Griffin
£3,343,542 NIHR National Institute for Health Research (01-12-2022 - 30-11-2027)

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 models
Hazel Screen and Martin Knight
£20,000 Emulate Inc. (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026)

Virtual Atria with Personalised Electrophysiology for Atrial Fibrillation Therapy Planning - SEMS Industry-supported PhD Studentship
Caroline Roney and Thomas Iskratsch
£25,000 Acutus Medical UK Ltd (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025)

NIH Development of Contactless Vital Sign Sensors
Zion Tse
£112,782 NIH National Institutes of Health - USA (25-09-2022 - 31-08-2026)

Engineered Recombinant Strategies to Organogel Design for Food Product Formulations
Julien Gautrot
£31,688 Motif Food Works Inc (01-09-2022 - 31-08-2026)

Dual targeting and triggered delivery of biomacromolecules from layer-by-layer decorated gas filled
Gleb Sukhorukov and David Gould
£500,679 Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (01-07-2022 - 02-07-2025)

Harmonised IAA grant - Improve and accelerate the impact of QMUL research BBSRC
David Lee and Viji Draviam Sastry
£495,000 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-04-2022 - 31-03-2026)

Harmonised IAA grant - Improve and accelerate the impact of QMUL research EPSRC
David Lee and Yang Hao
£882,583 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-04-2022 - 31-03-2026)

Harmonised IAA grant - Improve and accelerate the impact of QMUL research MRC
Mauro Perretti, Tatjana Crnogorac-Jurcevic and David Lee
£457,000 MRC Medical Research Council (01-04-2022 - 31-03-2026)

Human synovium-cartilage organ-chip for personalised surgical screening - Tim Hopkins - fellowship
Martin Knight
£311,203 AR-UK Versus Arthritis (01-04-2022 - 30-06-2026)

Professorship-GRANT TRANSFER
Zion Tse
£497,258 AMS Academy of Medical Sciences (31-03-2022 - 30-03-2027)

Engineering Circadian Biology into Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Organ-on-a-Chip models
David Lee and Yung-Yao Lin
£201,874 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-02-2022 - 31-01-2025)

How does ageing related loss of basement membrane collagen regulate epidermal barrier homeostasis
Edel O'Toole, Julien Gautrot and Matthew Caley
£64,000 Unilever UK Ltd (01-10-2021 - 30-11-2025)

How does ageing related loss of basement membrane collagen regulate epidermal barrier homeostasis
Edel O'Toole, Julien Gautrot and Matthew Caley
£116,803 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (27-09-2021 - 20-12-2025)

3D perfusion bioreactor studentship Baxter - EPSRC DTP CASE Conversion 2021
Karin Hing
£30,000 Baxter Healthcare Corporation (21-09-2021 - 20-09-2025)

Costing of MoBioC mini-CDT studentship for bit.bio, 3M, Sphere Fluidics, RB, Unilever, Photocentric and Manchester Biogel
Julien Gautrot
£70,000 Bit.Bio Ltd (01-09-2021 - 01-09-2025)

Tomo-SAXS: Imaging full-field molecular-to-macroscale biophysics of fibrous tissues
Himadri Gupta
£451,556 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (26-04-2021 - 25-10-2025)

Bioresorbable bioactive composites Kick off
Karin Hing and Emiliano Bilotti
£50,243 Baxter Healthcare Corporation (11-01-2021 - 22-01-2025)

Organ-on-a-chip Centre of Excellence
Martin Knight and Hazel Screen
£420,794 Emulate Inc. (20-08-2019 - 01-10-2029)

Engineering the fetal membranes
Tina Chowdhury
£40,000 Prenatal Charity UCL EGA INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH (01-12-2018 - 01-10-2028)

Sponsorship of P/T Student: Daniel Johnson
Karin Hing
£128,992 Apatech Ltd (01-02-2011 - 01-08-2026)