Research Grants

The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Bioengineering that have been flagged as being of particular relevance:

  • Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease-MultiPle Long tErm conditions and Assistive Technology
    Ratna Sohanpal, Stephanie Taylor, Jamie Ross, Nina Fudge, Charlotte Edwards Roscamp, Veronica Toffolutti, Pat Healey, Zion Tse and Mohammad Hassannezhad
    £92,754 NIHR National Institute for Health Research
    03-02-2025 - 02-05-2026
  • 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 
    Grant Summary

    07-10-2024 - 14-03-2025
  • 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 
    Grant Summary

    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 Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Organ-on-a-Chip Technology (COaCT)
    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 
    Grant Summary

    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
    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 kidney cell line
    Martin Knight and Cleo Bishop
    £39,986 Kidney Research UK 
    Grant Summary

    01-12-2023 - 30-11-2025
  • Epithelial Exchange Surfaces – From organizing principles to novel culture models of the gatekeepers of the body
    Martin Knight, Hazel Screen, Wen Wang, Clare Thompson and Cleo Bishop
    £260,676 EPSRC - EU Scheme 
    Grant Summary

    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
  • Wearable ultrasound sensor for vascular access home monitoring
    Lei Su and Haixue Yan
    £25,000 Kidney Research UK
    01-01-2023 - 31-08-2025
  • 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
    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
    Martin Knight
    £311,203 AR-UK Versus Arthritis
    01-04-2022 - 30-06-2026
  • Professorship
    Zion Tse
    £497,258 AMS Academy of Medical Sciences
    31-03-2022 - 30-03-2027
  • 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
  • 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