Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers

Mohamed Abdelhalim, King's College London, The effects of implanting aortic stent grafts on aortic stiffness and cardiac function

Ali Amini, University of Oxford, Role of Bicarbonate Transport in T cell Function

Irina Bacila, University of Sheffield, Understanding the interactions between steroid hormones and gut microbiota in the regulation of metabolic processes

Alice Beardmore-Gray, King's College London, Early monitoring of postnatal women to reduce risk of chronic kidney disease (EMPOWERED) study

Chris Bretherton, Queen Mary University of London, The Open Trauma Assessment Study (OTAS): Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Substudy

Claire Broderick, Imperial College London, Old age and host response to infectious diseases: biomarkers and biology

Rosalin Cooper, University of Oxford, Identifying microenvironmental predictors of leukaemic transformation in myeloproliferative neoplasia

William Dalleywater, University of Nottingham, Investigating high GREM1 and high PDGFRA expressing stromal cells in the colorectal cancer microenvironment

Niki Flaum, University of Manchester, BREAST CANCER EARLY DETECTION - BREAST MILK (BRACELET-BM1): A FEASIBILITY STUDY

Negin Holland, University of Cambridge, Characterising survival heterogeneity in frontotemporal lobar degenerative syndromes.

Meher Lad, Newcastle University, Are auditory cognitive measures related to blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease dementia?

Michael Mather, Newcastle University, Mechanistic modelling of upper airway immune dysfunction in children with otitis media with effusion

Edouard Mills, Imperial College London, Investigating the Effects of Kisspeptin Administration on Bone Metabolism in Postmenopausal Women

Stephen Ray, University of Oxford, Metagenomic and Phage sequencing for infectious and autoimmune diagnosis of febrile coma in Malawian children

Sabrina Rossi, University of Cambridge, Exploring DNA methylation epipolymorphism using Oxford nanopore long-read sequencing to gain insights into the tumorigenesis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Clark Russell, University of Edinburgh, Identification and prioritisation of macrophage responses required for clearance of intracellular Staphylococcus aureus.

Omid Sadeghi-Alavijeh, University College London, Whole Genome Sequencing to uncover the mutational landscape of cystic kidney diseases

Iannish Sadien, University of Cambridge, The role of oncogene-induced senescence in intestinal tumorigenesis

Benjamin Stewart, University of Cambridge, Defining the dynamic cell states of glomerular inflammatory responses

Jake Thompson, University of Nottingham, Exploring the physiological basis of positive welfare: Does a dairy cow’s housed environment lead to changes in metabolomic signals, production, and behaviour?

Hew Torrance, Imperial College London, Phenotyping and functional analysis of perioperative neutrophils in patients undergoing major abdominal cancer surgery.

Tim van Hasselt, University of Leicester, MAPS - The Multiple Long-term Conditions And Prematurity Study

Samer Alabed , University of Sheffield , Heart Talk: Turning Cardiac Measurements into Clinical Reports with Large Language Models

Ahran Arnold, Imperial College London, Non-invasive electro-anatomical mapping of repolarisation patterns after continuous conduction system pacing as cardiac resynchronisation therapy

Mathew Baldwin, University of Oxford, Machine learning approaches for biomarker discovery to diagnose prosthetic joint infections

Pamela Bowman, University of Exeter, Optimising targeted sulphonylurea treatment for the brain in neonatal diabetes (SU-BIND)

Joanne Butterworth, University of Exeter, Ensuring equality, diversity and inclusivity in the coproduction and planning for the evaluation of ‘VOLITION’:  A complex intervention to involve older people living with multiple long-term conditions in shared decision-making about their health care during general practice consultations.

Stephen Chapman, University of Leeds, Preparatory framework for a platform trial to prevent ileus after surgery

Edward  Chesney, King's College London, Can CBD be used to moderate tolerance to cannabis in very heavy users? A pilot study

Kristina Clark, University of Oxford, Understanding fibrosis in systemic sclerosis gastrointestinal disease

Rachel Clifton, University of Nottingham, Understanding the role of the skin microbiota in ovine footrot: a non-invasive metatranscriptomics approach

Natalie Cox, University of Southampton, A feasibility study to explore the relationships between modifiable influences and anorexia of ageing.

Hannah Crane, University of Sheffield, Spatial profiling of the transcriptomic landscape and investigating the role of epigenetic regulation in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OPSCC)

Xinyi (Beibei) Du-Harpur, King's College London, Molecular characterisation of vascular endothelial tissues throughout the development and presentation of hidradenitis suppurativa

Krit Dwivedi, University of Sheffield, Deep learning automated multi-system comorbidity assessment on chest Computed Tomography in Pulmonary Hypertension for prediction of patient survival and treatment response.

Peter Gallacher, University of Edinburgh, Trends in the incidence, treatment, and outcomes of heart failure in patients with kidney failure: a nationwide data-linkage study.

Sumeet Hindocha, University College London, Temporal, Multi-modal Deep Learning for Radiotherapy Toxicity and Outcome Prediction in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (LUCIDITY)

David Lawrence, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Reflex CD4 testing to determine the prevalence of advanced HIV disease among people with a detectable HIV viral load in Botswana

Emma Grace Lewis, Newcastle University, SYNErgise: Characterising the SYndemic of ageing, multiple long-term conditions and social care needs in the North East of England

Robert Morgan, University of Manchester, Defining the tumour microenvironment of high-grade serous ovarian cancer with different pathological responses to platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Holly Roy, University of Plymouth, nvestigating TEAD inhibition in hippo pathway dependent central nervous system tumours

Hannah Schiff, University of Southampton,  Integrating plasma proteomics with clinical phenotype to define diagnostic biomarkers of pulmonary tuberculosis

Ina Schim van der Loeff, Newcastle University, Understanding how autosomal dominant mutations in PSMB10 cause severe combined immunodeficiency and Omenn syndrome

Karen Suetterlin, Newcastle University, A pilot project to assess the acceptability, feasibility and utility of Force Enhancement as a non-invasive measure of titin function in neuromuscular disease.

William Young, Queen Mary University of London, Integration of large-scale proteomics with ECG traits for anti-arrhythmic drug target discovery

Nabih Alkhouri, University College London, Renewal MI second generation- from restorative to pulp regeneration material

Asmaa Al-Taie, University of Leeds, Wear characteristics of modern dental ceramic materials and their opposing dentition

Kavit Amin, University of Manchester, Developing a Porcine Ex-Vivo Living Limb System to Investigate the Bidirectional Control of Advanced Prostheses

Alex Aquilina, Bristol Medical School, Core Outcomes for Periprosthetic Femoral Fractures

Benjamin Faber, University of Bristol, Identifying potential drug targets for Osteoarthritis using data from the Genetics of Osteoarthritis Endophenotype Working Group.

Sophie Gu, University of Cambridge, Development of a biomechanical simulation platform for the prediction of coronary plaque destabilisation

Charlotte Hellmich, University of East Anglia, Investigating the role of differentially expressed glutamine synthetase in aged haematopoietic stem cells.

Thomas Jackson, University College London, Developing syngeneic models of CAR-T therapy for neuroblastoma

Christopher Jones, University of Cambridge, The impact of clonal cooperation on tumour resistance to ionising radiation

Roxanne Keynejad, King's College London, Collaborative development of a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation randomised controlled trial protocol in rural Ethiopia

Elizabeth Li, University of Birmingham, Stopping unnecessary surgery: A behavioural change intervention to tackle the misdiagnosis of appendicitis and improve patient outcomes

Gashirai Mbizvo, University of Liverpool, An international cohort study assessing the morbidity and mortality risks of valproate withdrawal in men and women aged 16–54 years with epilepsy

Sarah Mills, University of St Andrews, Use of Point-of-Care C-Reactive Protein Testing in the General Practice Out-of-Hours Service in Scotland: A Pilot Study.

Matthew Nour, University of Oxford, Decoding natural language in psychiatry: from cognitive maps to scalable biomarkers

Olakunle Oginni, Cardiff University, Disentangling the mechanisms of early childhood psychopathology in a resource-poor setting using a genetically informative design: a pilot twin study in southwestern Nigeria

Toby Pillinger, King's College London, Cardiac structure and function in people with first episode psychosis

Nuria Sanchez Clemente, St. George's, University of London, Using electronic health records to describe the health of migrant children and young people who require an interpreter in England.

Ashwin Venkataraman, King's College London, Quantification of the utility and feasibility of portable ultra-low-field MRI to investigate dementia in older adults under memory services.

Nicola Vousden, University of Oxford, Leveraging linked data and lived experience to design interventional studies aiming to improve maternal and infant outcomes for pregnant women living with disadvantage

Rachel Wake, St George's University of London, Investigating Combination Antifungal Therapy with Flucytosine for the Prevention of Antifungal Resistance during Treatment of Invasive Candidiasis

Janine Yazdi-Doughty, University of Liverpool, A study to explore how adults experience oral health-related stigma and their perspectives about how to destigmatise differences in oral health status.

Angeliki Zarkali, University College London, Quantifying the contribution of cerebral amyloid angiopathy to Lewy body dementias

Caroline McCarthy, University of Liverpool, Multi-spectral phenotyping of the immune microenvironment in Oral Lichen Planus

Kushalav Abeysekera, University of Bristol, Investigating the rise of liver disease in young adults in the UK

Ryckie Wade, University of Leeds, Quantitative MRI of Skeletal Muscle For Assessing the Site and Severity of Ulnar Nerve Entrapment: A Pilot Study

Peter Hanlon, University of Glasgow, Enhancing routine healthcare data to compare frailty and multimorbidity in randomised controlled trials versus routine care

Joseph  Ward, University College London, Using administrative data to estimate burden of chronic disease in children and young people in England

William Watson, University of Cambridge, Does increased lipid metabolism alter cardiac function in ischaemic cardiomyopathy?

Joshua Luis, University College London, Müller glial cell response during acute intraocular pressure elevation

Xilin Wu, Queen Mary University of London, Investigating the role of TMEM132E in the production of aldosterone, and whether it is required for membrane trafficking of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the adrenal.

Karyn Ayre, University of Edinburgh, An Implementation Science Approach to Complex Social Circumstances Among Antenatal Women with Moderate-Severe Mental Illness.

Donal Skelly, University of Oxford, Investigating the Immune Landscape of the Meninges in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Spatial Transcriptomics Pilot Study

Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, University College London, Association between exposure to air pollution in utero and childhood health outcomes

Mark Ellul, University of Liverpool, Understanding disease mechanisms of postinfectious autoimmunity in herpes simplex virus encephalitis

Andreas Hadjinicolaou, University of Cambridge,  Investigating the utility of the Cytosponge and molecular biomarkers to identify patients at risk of gastric cancer

Neil  Graham, Imperial College London, The UK CTE Study - understanding the long-term outcomes of head impact exposure

Candice Downey, University of Leeds School of Medicine, A feasibility evaluation investigating the impact of emergency laparotomy and its complications on healthcare costs and patients’ quality of life

Sarah Prentice, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Identifying transcriptomic signatures of BCG-induced protection against heterologous infections in infants

Lettie Rawlins, University of Exeter Medical School. A community approach to accelerate the discovery of the molecular basis of neurodevelopmental disorders in Pakistan

Lucy Plumb, University of Bristol, Refining and validating a clinical prediction score for childhood chronic kidney disease

Jennifer Lane, Queen Mary University of London, Improving surgical and device epidemiology in real world big data: leading an international collaboration

Jesmeen Maimaris, University College London, Genetic and immunological characterisation of novel JAK/STAT signalling pathway defects in primary immunodeficiency diseases

Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Queen Mary University of London, The ONCOVER Study: Optimising cardiovascular risk stratification in people with cancer

Mohamed Mohamed, University College London, Risk assessment and long-term outcomes of acute coronary syndrome management strategy in cardio-oncology patients

Charikleia Papadopoulou, University of Cambridge, Understanding the molecular mechanisms behind ischaemic cardiomyopathy

Tom Abbott, Queen Mary University of London, A national perioperative platform trial to promote diversity in perioperative research

Simon Abram, University of Oxford, Leveraging Routinely Collected Big Data to Benchmark and Improve Surgical Care Outcomes

Simon Bell, University of Sheffield, Understanding the role of Hexokinase 1 deficiency as a contributor to the cellular pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Alison Berner, Queen Mary University of London, Genomic Origins Of Sex-bias in Colorectal Cancer Epidemiology (GOOSCCE)

Simon Biddie, University of Edinburgh, Uncovering functional host non-coding genetic variants associated with risk of severe COVID-19 using high-throughput screening

Matthew Clarke, Institute of Cancer Research, The classification and characterisation of high-grade gliomas in teenagers and young adults

Helen Devine, Newcastle University, Is there dysfunction at the neuromuscular junction in spinal bulbar muscular atrophy which can be a future target for therapeutic intervention in SBMA and other motor neuron diseases?

Sarah Dorrington, King's College London, Mental health and occupational outcomes of people accessing an early pregnancy unit (EPAU) in south London: an eLIXIR data linkage study

Alexander Fletcher, University of Glasgow, Non-invasive molecular imaging to measure fibroblast activation in right ventricular disease

Amanda Goodwin, University of Nottingham, Understanding how mesenchymal G protein signalling controls lung development and repair

Robert Hyde, University of Nottingham, The automated diagnosis of disease using machine vision: lameness in dairy cattle

Theresa Hydes, University of Liverpool, Patient preferences for the delivery of the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease clinical pathway: let’s move towards patient-centered care

Miriam Manook, University of Cambridge, Systems serology in transplantation: comprehensive profiling of HLA antibodies to stratify immunological risk

Chris Miles, St George's University of London, Utility of the high-lead ECG configuration during exercise stress testing in Brugada syndrome

Hannah Nieto, University of Birmingham, FNA-seq: Nanopore sequencing of fine needle aspirate samples to revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer

Karl Payne, University of Birmingham, COMBined Blood And Tissue prediction for immunotherapy response in recurrent/metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (COMBAT HNSCC)

Laurence Pearmain, University of Manchester, Resolving  monocyte-derived macrophage extracellular matrix crosstalk within the fibrotic niche for precision biomarker guided therapies in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Adam Pennycuick, University College London, Parallelised Cancer Therapy based on Copy Number Targeting

Haseeb Rahman, King's College London, Improving diagnosis and outcomes of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction by applying a network approach across the UK

Sayyid Raza, University of Manchester, Understanding the role of Neuron Navigator 3 in kidney fibrosis

Akshay Shah, University of Oxford, Inflammatory phenotypes, haemoglobin recovery and economic evaluation of treating anaemia in survivors of critical illness

Bo Sun, University of Oxford, Transcriptomic profiling of autoantibody-mediated neuronal perturbations in CASPR2-antibody encephalitis

Joshua Totty, Hull & York Medical School, First-in-man clinical trial investigating the effect of hair cycle modulation on wound healing.

Lucy Whitaker, University of Edinburgh, Improving understanding of endometriosis pain flares to support patients with self-management and prevention (EndoFLARE): a feasibility study

Yanushi Wijeyeratne, St George's University of London, Polygenic association study of risk and phenotype in SCN5A-E1784K families