The UKRI IAA has supported the following projects.
Supported Projects
Round 1
Panel | PI | Department | Title |
Smart | Rupert Oulton | Physics | Real-time neurotrophic computing hardware using optically addressed nanomagnet arrays |
Smart | Ruth Misener | Computing | Combining Machine Learning and Optimisation: Applications to supply chain |
Smart | Felice Torrisi | Chemistry | The IonGO Platform: A scalable printed graphene transistor sensor platform for real-time multiplex detection of chemical markers |
Smart | Joao Cabral | Chemical Engineering | POLYDELTA: Nanostructured Polymer Particles by the Bucket |
Smart | Riccardo Sapienza | Physics | Time-varying metasurfaces as programmable matter for optical computing |
Smart | Nan Li | Dyson School of Design Engineering | Deep Learning based User-Centric Software to Assist Design for Forming |
Smart | Thomas Heinis | Computing | Scaling Up DNA Storage |
Resilient | Katerina Tsiampousi | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Industry Assessment tools for segmental tunnel linings (IndAsT) |
Resilient | Amir Dezashibi | Chemical Engineering | Sustainable extraction and purification of vanadium from ash (industrial waste) |
Resilient | John Tisch | Physics | Developing impact from novel ultra-violet source and sensor technologies (NANO-UV) |
Resilient | Robert Gross | Centre for Environmental Policy | Heat and Networks: User Impact (HAN UI) |
Sustainable | Tolga Bozkurt | Life Sciences | Expanding the spectrum and potency of the newly discovered RNA silencing tools to boost biopharming and research purposes |
Sustainable | Jason Hallett | Chemical Engineering | De-risking EcoSAF technology, a new biobased anionic surfactant for detergent and personal care purpose |
Sustainable | Chun Huang | Materials | Advanced manufacturing of smart electrodes with designed microstructure for energy applications |
Sustainable | Nick Long | Chemistry | Organometallic-enhanced perovskite solar cells |
Sustainable | Omar Matar | Chemical Engineering | Graphene production via liquid phase exfoliation and on-line quality control |
Sustainable | Thrishantha Nanayakkara | Dyson School of Design Engineering | AI Based Automatic Flagging of Red Palm Weevil Infestation Based on Acoustic Data |
Sustainable | Jenny Nelson | Physics | Expanding community-scale renewable energy system deployment using system design software |
Sustainable | Giovanni Sena | Life Sciences | Prototype optimisation and proof-of-concept delivery of 3D-printed hydrogel module for vertical and space farming |
Sustainable | Magda Titirici | Chemical Engineering | PET Depolymerisation and Electrolysis to Enable Efficient Plastic Recycling and Green H2 production |
Sustainable | Hong Wong | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Seratech: Delivering carbon negative concrete for net zero carbon infrastructure |
Sustainable | Chao Wu | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Maximizing the pozzolanic reactivity of recycled powders from wind turbine blades for green concrete production |
Healthy | Catherine Kibirige | Infectious Disease | Field Testing of a Sensitive, Low Cost, Ambient Temperature, HIV-1 DNA Quantification Kit with Broad Cross-Subtype Specificity |
Healthy | Ed Tate | Chemistry | Novel inhibitors of NorA to combat antimicrobial resistance |
Healthy | Danny O'Hare | Bioengineering | Development of drug authenticity testing for antimalarials |
Healthy | Ed Tate | Chemistry | Next-generation AND-gate protease-sensitive antibody-drug conjugates for enhanced tumour targeting |
Healthy | Thomas Clarke | Infectious Disease | Broad-spectrum live biotherapeutics to combat antibiotic resistant pathogens |
Healthy | Richard van Arkel | Mechanical Engineering | Closed-Loop Control of Bone Growth Around Implants |
Healthy | Jesus Rodriguez Manzano | Infectious Disease | Monkeypox detection system for point-of-care diagnostics and molecular epidemiology |
Healthy | Nathan Skene | Brain Sciences | Creating commercial kit solutions for single cell epigenetic profiling of histone marks and transcription factors |
Healthy | Maria Kyrgiou | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Metabolomics-based technologies as a bedside tool for the detection and treatment of precancerous cervical lesions and invasive cancer |
Healthy | Anastasios Karadimitris | Immunology and Inflammation | Harnessing the iNKT cell platform for combined cellular and humoral immunotherapy of cancer |
Healthy | Julian Jones | Materials | Translation of Bouncy Bioglass towards Spinout |
Healthy | Gregory Scott | Brain Sciences | Use of an in-ear EEG device in hospitalised patients with impaired conscious level: proof of concept study |
Healthy | Peter Weinberg | Bioengineering | Detection of heart failure in primary care and at home |
Healthy | Anthony Bull | Bioengineering | Appropriate and affordable prosthetic locking liner and suspension system for low- to middle-income countries and conflict zones |
Round 2
Panel | PI | Department | Title |
Healthy | Rongjun Chen | Chemical Engineering | Optimisation and in vivo evaluation of bio-inspired nanomedicines for targeted thrombolytic therapy in preparation for commercialisation |
Healthy | Paul Freemont | Infectious Disease | Engineering self-amplifying RNA vaccines using mammalian cell-free expression |
Healthy | Matthew Fuchter | Chemistry | Fragment-Based Drug Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp16 Methyltransferase Inhibitors |
Healthy | Sarah Huf | Surgery & Cancer | Reducing healthcare inequalities by applying behavioural science-based interventions and co-design to improve outpatient attendance rates in targeted patient populations |
Healthy | David Mann | Life Sciences | Extending the patent reach of QIT to increase commercial traction |
Healthy | Spyros Masouros | Bioengineering | Translating our pressure-ulcer prevention device for the seated patient |
Healthy | Robbie Murray | Physics | Field testing a picosecond mid-infrared laser for mass spectrometric imaging |
Healthy | Darryl Overby | Bioengineering | A Next-generation Explant-in-Chip Model for Novel Drug Development Applications in Cancer |
Healthy | Avinash Shenoy | Infectious Disease | Silencing unconventional proinflammatory alarmins with PROTACs |
Healthy | Anthony Sinadinos | National Heart and Lung Institute | Chimeric antigen receptor viral vector development for improved vector manufacturing |
Healthy | Molly Stevens | Materials | Prototyping a rapid, ultrasensitive multiplexed biosensor for the simultaneous detection of non-coding RNA and protein for diagnosing cardiovascular disease |
Healthy | Burak Temelkuran | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Multimaterial fibre based catheter for localised precision mapping of drivers causing atrial arrhythmias |
Healthy | Alex Thompson | Surgery & Cancer | Wearable fluorescence sensors for non-invasive monitoring of gut function |
Resilient | Adrian Butler | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Automated Logging of Self‐Potential Gradients for Saline Intrusion Tracking |
Smart | Benjamin Barratt | School of Public Health | Warm and Well? Overcoming barriers to the take up of smart energy technology in vulnerable homes using peer-to-peer learning with older people |
Smart | Michael Breza | Computing | IoT Based High Fidelity Logistics for Trustable Shipping and Supply Chains |
Smart | Jerry Heng | Chemical Engineering | Validation of powder mixing regime map for inhalation drug formulations |
Smart | Catherine O'Sullivan | Civil Engineering | GeoCyl: Novel in-situ soil characterisation device for offshore applications |
Smart | Mark Sephton | Earth Science and Engineering | Next generation stable isotope method for forensic analysis |
Sustainable | Agi Brandt-Talbot | Chemistry | Continuous multifilament wet-spinning of lignin using low-cost ionic liquids for cost-effective, sustainable carbon fibres |
Sustainable | Chris Cheeseman | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Manufacture of carbon negative construction products through mineral sequestration of CO2 |
Sustainable | Matthew Eaton | Mechanical Engineering | Segmented Kronecker Augmented Gaussian Process (SKA-GP) Surrogate Models for Data Driven Multiphysics Uncertainty Quantification of Thermal Fatigue within PWR T-junctions |
Sustainable | Alalea Kia | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Sustainable high-strength permeable concrete infrastructure (Hi-Pave) |
Sustainable | Mengzheng Ouyang | Earth Science and Engineering | Scaling up of the production of monolithic nanoporous metal through electrospinning |
Sustainable | Zhusheng Shi | Mechanical Engineering | Development of an innovative Multiple-Cylinder-Extrusion (MCE) technology towards sustainable manufacturing of lightweight wide extrusions and commercialization |
Sustainable | Qilei Song | Chemical Engineering | UKRI IAA Upscaling and manufacturing of polymer membranes for energy storage |
Sustainable | Billy Wu | School of Design Engineering | Battery digital twins – A key enabler for more durable and intelligent lithium-ion batteries |
Round 3
Panel | PI | Department | Title |
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Healthy | Sam Au | Bioengineering | Mono-sized Microbubbles – Establishing a Commercial Beachhead Application |
Healthy | Charles Bangham | Infectious Disease | Developing impactful infection diagnostics |
Healthy | Rongjun Chen | Chemical Engineering | Formulation of RNA with novel virus-mimicking lipid nanoparticles for targeted intracellular delivery and long-term thermostability |
Healthy | David Erritzoe | Brain Sciences | Multimodal neuroimaging and clinical study to investigate the effects of psilocybin therapy in Gambling disorder: proof of concept study |
Healthy | Paul French | Physics | Low-cost clinical multiplexed immunofluorescence microscopy |
Healthy | Jethro Herberg | Infectious Disease | MARPLE (MagMove RNA Purification and Lateral flow Evaluation) |
Healthy | James Howard | National Heart and Lung Institute | Autonomous cardiac MRI scanning using artificial intelligence: a randomised controlled trial |
Healthy | Julian Jones | Materials | Translation of Cotton Wool Bioglass for Licensing |
Healthy | Uta Griesenbach | National Heart and Lung Institute | Development of non-viral gene therapy for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis |
Healthy | Anastasios Karadimitris | Immunology and Inflammation | Developing cord blood iNKT cells as an optimal platform for ‘off-the-shelf’ immunotherapy of blood cancers |
Healthy | Sylvain Ladame | Bioengineering | Improving risk stratification of preterm birth via a screening blood test at first antenatal appointment with high predictive value. |
Healthy | Fu Siong Ng | National Heart and Lung Institute | Artificial-intelligence enabled electrograms to prevent unnecessary and harmful defibrillator shocks |
Healthy | David James Pinato | Surgery and Cancer | An artificial intelligence-based approach to identify immunologic predictors of outcome to immunotherapy in hepatocellular cancer using digital pathology |
Healthy | Tamir Rashid | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Pluripotent stem cell derived hepatocytes for liver failure (PUSH for LIFE) |
Healthy | Lan Zhao | National Heart and Lung Institute | UKRI IAA - Inhaled Exenatide for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: a proof of concept study to evaluate safety and acute haemodynamic effects of inhaled GLP-1 agonist treatment in PAH patients. |
Resilient | Tolga Bozkurt | Life Sciences | Enhancing Heat Stress Resilience in Crops: Reprograming of Autophagy |
Resilient | Livia Cupertino-Malheiros | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Generating a material database to enable the Virtual Testing paradigm in hydrogen-containing environments |
Resilient | Ana Mijic | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Integrated Water Planning Portal for Digital Planning Applications and Sustainable Urban Design |
Resilient | David Taborda | Civil and Environmental Engineering | SIDeTools – Smart Infrastructure Design Tools |
Smart | Rossella Arcucci | Earth Science and Engineering | UKRI IAA - PURITY (Pollution Update, Reporting and Information For You) |
Smart | Bernadette Byrne | Life Sciences | Development of a high-throughput lipid screen for membrane protein stability. |
Smart | James Choi | Bioengineering | A Smart Wristband for Tracking Hand Gestures in Virtual and Augmented Reality |
Smart | Bruno Clerckx | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Creating 6G Impact through Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) prototyping |
Smart | Chris Dunsby | Physics | Proof of concept and development of prototype openFrame dual-view oblique plane microscopy system |
Smart | Fatemeh Geranmayeh | Brain Sciences | SONIVA: Speech recOgNItion Validation in Aphasia |
Sustainable | Wendy Barclay | Infectious Disease | Discovering specific mutations that abrogate the support of ANP32 proteins for influenza polymerase, for generating robustly influenza-resistant gene-edited chickens. |
Sustainable | Pelin Demirel | School of Design Engineering | Green Behaviour Interventions in Operating Theatres - Prototyping and Proof of Concept |
Sustainable | Iuliia Elizarova | Mechanical Engineering | Graphene-enabled universal laser additive manufacturing |
Sustainable | Ann Huang | Materials | Development of a prototype machine for novel dry electrode manufacturing for lithium ion batteries |
Sustainable | John-Paul Latham | Earth Science and Engineering | SolidDrill: Innovative Geothermal Drilling Simulation Software for Breaking Barriers and Investment |
Sustainable | Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro | Bioengineering | Scaling-up the production of a novel blue dye using a yeast-based platform |
Sustainable | Nan Li | School of Design Engineering | Accelerate a New Energy Efficient Titanium Forming Technology towards Industrial Applications |
Sustainable | Camille Petit | Chemical Engineering | Graphene-enhanced concrete for sustainable construction |
Sustainable | Eduardo Saiz | Materials | UKRI IAA -Digital Light Processing of SiC |
Round 4
Panel | PI | Department | Title |
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Healthy | Sam Au | Bioengineering | Microfluidic T Cell Selection by Cellular Avidity for Cancer Immunotherapy |
Healthy | Andrew Grieve | School of Public Health | WorkAir |
Healthy | Aylin Hanyaloglu | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Pre-clinical models of a novel therapeutic agent in pre-term labour |
Healthy | Jonathan Jeffers | Mechanical Engineering | Improving the useability and safety while shortening the duration of fracture fixation surgery. |
Healthy | Kartik Logishetty | Surgery and Cancer | Development of an augmented reality tool for personalised periacetabular osteotomy |
Healthy | Connor Myant | School of Design Engineering | A novel device to prevent epidural hyperthermia: Providing real world impact by bridging the translational gap |
Healthy | Asha Kumari Patel | National Heart and Lung Institute | Bioactive nanomaterials for nucleic acid delivery |
Healthy | Talya Porat | School of Design Engineering | Holistic Integrated Visualisation to enhance situation awareness and improve decision making in primary care – proof of concept |
Healthy | Robin Shattock | Infectious Disease | Ribose enhanced RNA POC study |
Healthy | Edward Tate | Chemistry | Exemplifying a novel cleavable linker for non-internalising ADCs activated in the tumour microenvironment |
Healthy | John Tregoning | Infectious Disease | Increasing Technology readiness level (TRL) of a novel RNA vaccine for antimicrobial resistant bacterial pneumonia |
Healthy | Richard van Arkel | Mechanical Engineering | Active Bone-growing Implants: A Prototype for Engaging with Regulators and Payors |
Smart | Daan Arroo | Materials | From the lab to the mainstream: Industrial Engagement for Room Temperature Masers |
Smart | Frederic Cegla | Mechanical Engineering | Miniature, low-power, coded excitation, ultrasonic phased array acquisition prototype |
Smart | Jack Gartside | Physics | Deep Optical Physical Neural Networks for Low-Energy Neuromorphic Machine Vision |
Smart | Thrishantha Nanayakkara | School of Design Engineering | A portable soft haptic mouse (PSHM) to enable tactile interaction with digital objects |
Smart | Timothy Runcorn | Physics | Next generation laser sources for resilient satellite communications |
Smart | Felice Torrisi | Chemistry | The IonGO Platform: On the spot chemical diagnostics using a sprayed graphene transistor platform |
Sustainable | Samuel Humphry-Baker | Materials | Scalable manufacturing of shielding materials for fusion energy. |
Sustainable | Matthew Jackson | Earth Science and Engineering | A fast and accurate numerical simulator for modelling shallow geothermal and underground thermal energy storage deployments in heterogeneous aquifers |
Sustainable | Jun Jiang | Mechanical Engineering | Revolutionising Hot Stamping: A High-Accuracy Digital Method for the Future Automotive Industry |
Sustainable | Julianna Panidi | Chemistry | Flexible Sustainable Solar Cells Powering Microelectronics |
Sustainable | Ronny Pini | Chemical Engineering | DPSORB - Automated Dual-Purpose Sorption Equilibrium and Kinetics Analyzer |
Sustainable | Ifan Stephens | Materials | ElectroSynth: Electrocatalytic oxidation of HMF to produce a valuable bio-based monomer to produce a green alternative to PET plastics. |
Sustainable | Michael Templeton | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Translating sanitation research to action: Resource recovery from on-site sanitation systems in Rwanda and Uganda |
Sustainable | Nikolai Windbichler | Life Sciences | Screening of Synthetic LRR Domain Variants Against Plant Pathogen Effectors as a Proof-of-Concept for a New Approach to NLR Engineering |
Round 5
Round 5 is currently in progress. Results will be published in September 2024.