The College has had two BBSRC Impact Acceleration Accounts including an initial pilot in 2015 followed by a longer-term award from 2018-2022. Prior to the IAAs Imperial received funding from the BBSRC Sparking Impact Awards.
The objectives of the account were to:
- Support the development of BBSRC funded research activity towards commercialisation of the outputs.
- Translation of BBSRC funded research and knowledge to end user communities.
- To increase the number of high quality case studies related to the direct and/or indirect impact of BBSRC science.
The following projects have been supported through the BBSRC Impact Acceleration Account:
Supported Projects 2020-21
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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| Professor James Moore |
Bioengineering |
Low-Trauma Cell Injection Syringe |
| Professor Simon Shultz |
Bioengineering |
An open source platform for two-photon targeted robotic patch-clamp physiology |
| Professor Gary Frost |
Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction |
Developing and testing products made with pea genetic variants on glucose homeostasis |
| Professor Molly Stevens |
Materials/Bioengineering |
Assessing the market for automated exosome characterisation |
| Professor Zoltan Takats |
Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction |
Trace level detection of microbiological contaminants in pharmaceutical environment using Laser Assisted Rapid Evaporative Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (LA-REIMS) |
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Supported Projects 2019
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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| Professor George Christophides |
Life Sciences |
MozAPP |
| Dr Michalis Barkoulas |
Life Sciences |
Biological control of plant and livestock parasitic nematodes |
| Dr Tolga Bozkurt |
Life Sciences |
Combining three innovations to boost protein purification from plants |
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Supported Projects 2018
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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| Professor Martin Buck |
Life Sciences |
Synthetic Nitrogen-fixing Nodules for sustainable agriculture (SynNod) |
| Professor Paul French |
Physics |
Open, modular, accessible, super-resolved microscopy |
| Dr Patrik Jones |
Life Sciences |
BIO-F - Sustainable provision of nutrients for agriculture using algae |
| Dr Becky Wilson |
FoNS Corporate Partnerships |
Bioscience Networking with Industry |
| Dr Tolga Bozkurt |
Life Sciences |
Expanding the potency of newly discovered, exogenous autophagy suppressing peptides for biopharming and research purposes |
| Dr Giovanni Sena |
Life Sciences |
Towards a novel root guidance system for intelligent agriculture |
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Supported Projects 2015-16
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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| Dr Cleo Kontoravdi |
Chemical Engineering |
Evaluation and dissemination of computational tool for therapeutic protein quality prediction |
| Dr James McGinty |
Physics |
Novel platform for 3D optical mesoscopic imaging.To find out more about this project please see the case study |
| Dr Masahiro Ono |
Life Sciences |
GUI-based computational platform to decode and retrieve the time information inside the immune cells from novel transgenic reporter mouse. To find out more about this project please see the case study
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| Dr Konstantin Nikolic |
Bioengineering |
PyRhO: A Virtual Optogenetics Laboratory Creation of a Web Portal. To find out more about this project please see the case study
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| Dr Tom Ellis |
Bioengineering |
Expanding the Impact of the UK Synthetic Genomes Course 2016 |
| Dr Giorgio Gilestro |
Life Sciences |
Improving the diffusion of Ethoscopes: an Open Source hardware and software toolkit for invertebrate neuroscience |
| Professor Sivaramesh Wigneshweraraj |
Medicine |
Validation studies on a potential target to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections caused by uropathogenic E Coli (jointly funded with MRC Confidence in Concept) |
| Professor Gad Frankel |
Life Sciences |
Evaluating bacterial mucinases as E Coli vaccine candidates |
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BBSRC IAA Projects
The following projects were supported through the older BBSRC Sparking Impact Award
Supported Projects 2013
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
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| Dr Sarah Butcher |
Bioinformatics |
LabBook: A Digital Lab Notebook |
| Professor Tony Cass |
Chemistry |
Low-cost test for arsenic contamination of water in resource limited countries. To find out more about this project please see the case study |
| Professor Anthony Bull |
Bioengineering |
Osteoarthritis |
| Dr Aylin Hanyaloglu |
Surgery and Cancer |
Novel multi-colour super resolution imaging. To find out more about this project please see the case study |
| Professor Michael Sternberg |
Life Sciences |
Assessment of the commercial impact of software for rational enzyme design in synthetic biology |
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