Supported Projects

• Round 1
• Round 2
• Round 3
• Round 4
• Round 5

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
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
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.