Research Grants (2011-2013)
Selected Research Grants in 2013
Professor T Robinson
LRN CLRN Funding Support: Nazia Saeed
£10,871 UHL NHS Trust
Professor I Gottlob, Dr F Proudlock and Ms G Maconachie
Can feedback increase adherence to patching and spectacles wear in amblyopia?
£59,269 National Eye Research Centre
Professor G Murphy
Red cell washing to attenuate transfusion mediated organ injury
£170,337 NIHR via Bristol
Professor NJ Samani
NIHR BioResource Award
£1,048,915 NIHR via Cambridge
Dr G McCann
Clinical Evaluation of 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Management of Patients with Coronary Heart Disease: The CE-MARC2 study
£60,000 British Heart Foundation
Professor I Gottlob
The Eagle Study
£26,397 CLRN via UHL NHS Trust
Dr G Ng
Grant in Aid: Cardiology in Medical Devices
£80,000 Sorin Group UK Ltd
Dr G Ng
Utilising Lifemap to Investigate Malignant Arrhythmia ThErapy (ULTIMATE)
£60,954 East Midlands Pacemaker Fund
Professor N Brindle
Creating Biotherapeutic Proteins
£3,273 Wellcome Trust
Dr K Herbert
Vacation scholarship
£1,260 Wellcome Trust
Dr C Erridge
PAMP feeding study
£6,000 Wellcome Trust
Dr E Stringer
In-vivo functional genomics of genes potentially involved in coronary artery disease
£15,000 Wellcome Trust
Selected Research Grants in 2012
Mr E Choke
Angiotensin-II induced aneurysms in smooth muscle specific LRP-1 deficient mice: a new mouse aortic aneurysm model
£79,340 The Circulation Foundation
Professor G Murphy
Application for Personal Chair
£1,282,707 British Heart Foundation
Dr D Lodwick and Dr R Rainbow
New Treatment for Long QT Syndrome
£10,000 University of Leicester Innovation Fellowship
Professor T Coats
Haemorrhage Alleviation with Tranexamic acid - InTestinal system (HALT IT)
£15,319 Health Technology Assessment (HTA) via London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Professor A Gershlick
Complete Versus Lesion-only Primary PCI Pilot (CVLPRI-t) Supplement
£70,000 British Hearth Foundation
Dr G Ng and Dr W Nicolson
LifeMap: Revolutionising Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Assessment
£5,000 University of Leicester Innovation Fellowship
Professor A Wilson (Health Sciences) and Dr S Conroy
Establishing and implementing best practice to reduce unplanned admissions in those aged 85+ through system change
£61,129 NIHR
Professor T Robinson and Dr A Mistri
Blood Pressure Variability - Definition, Natural History, Prognosis and Treatment Following Acute Stroke
£996,229 Stroke Association / British Heart Foundation
Dr F Proudlock and Professor I Gottlob
The role of glasses wearing in amblyopia treatment
£199,206 Action Medical Research
Prof T Robinson and Dr W Toff
ENCHANTED
£202,319 The Stroke Association
Professor NJ Samani, Professor L Ng, Professor A Goodall and Professor I Squire and
Dr J Tedds (IT Services)
JISC UMF Cloud Computing Programme
£806,816 JISC
Professor NJ Samani
Supplement BRU
£74,570 NIHR
Professor NJ Samani and Professor B Williams
LCBRU-2011
£5,813,194 NIHR
Professor NJ Samani and Dr E Stringer
WT-ISSF application: Career development support for Emma Stringer
£10,000 Wellcome Trust
Professor NJ Samani
UHL FSF principal investigator funding for additional staff support for Prof NJ Samani
£63,796 UHL
Professor NJ Samani
Senior Investigator Award- continuation
£75,000 NIHR
Professor NJ Samani, Dr T Webb and Dr E Stringer
Leducq Foundation Transatlantic Network of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research
$1,000,000 Foundation Leducq
Prof NJ Samani, Professor I Squire and Dr G Rodrigo
The DREAM Study: Daily REmote Ischeamic Conditioning following Acute Myocardial Infaction- A Phase II Study
£64,998 The Freemasons' Grand Charity and Masonic Samaritan Fund
Dr M Tomaszewski, Professor NJ Samani, Professor MA Jobling, Professor JR Thompson, Dr F Charchar
Genetic mechanisms of coronary artery disease in men – next generation sequencing of male-specific region of the Y chromosome
£240,405 BHF
Dr N Dattani
The significance of glucose transporters in abdominal aortic aneurysm pathogenesis
£54,546 Circulation Foundation
Mr P Stather
The Differential Expression of MicroRNA in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
£94,547 The Royal College of Surgeons & Dunhill Medical Trust
Mr E Choke
The Role of Antiangiogenic Therapy on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Development and Rupture
£29,855 The Academy of Medical Sciences/Wellcome
Mr E Choke, Professor N Brindle, Mr M Bown and Professor R Sayers
The in vivo effects of antiangiogenesis treatment on abdominal aortic aneurysms
£131,854 British Heart Foundation
Dr E Chung
Supplement Forecasting brain injury in the virtual patient
£1,500 British Heart Foundation
Dr K Brack
Significance of intrinsic cardiac gangia in the control of cardiac performance in health and disease
£429,005 British Heart Foundation
Dr G McCann
Prognostic Importance of Microvascular Dysfunction in Asymptomatic Patients with Aortic Stenosis
£587,072 NIHR via UHL
Dr G McCann
Cardiovascular MR evaluation of the safety and efficacy of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) compared to surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (AVR)
£55,559 British Heart Foundation via Leeds
Dr GA Ng
Remote Monitoring: an evaluation of implantable devices for management of heart failure patients
£200,788 BHF via University of Southampton
Dr GA Ng and Dr K Brack
Autonomic modulation of ventricular arrhythmias in heart failure
£204,593 British Heart Foundation
Dr GA Ng
Grant in Aid
£5,882 Catheter Robotics
Professor L Ng and Dr S Bhandari
The impact of ethnicity on the high density lipoprotein (HDL) proteome in coronary artery disease
£166,631 British Heart Foundation
Professor L Ng and Dr D Jones (Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine)
Establishment of a cardiovascular biomarker discovery and validation pipeline in the new Cardiovascular Research Centre at Glenfield Hospital
£2,500,000 John & Lucielle van Geest
Professor R Sayers, Mr Vimal Gokani and Professor B Williams
The effect of Surgery on Central Aortic Pressure and HaEmodynamics (ESCAPE) study
£160,212 British Heart Foundation
Dr Kumar Ramnarine
Vacation Scholarship
£1,440 Nuffield Foundation
Mr D Baiou
Generation of Therapeutic angiopoiten-2 binding protein by directed evolution
£103,343 The Royal College of Surgeons & Dunhill
Professor N Brindle
Creating Biotherapeutic Proteins
£13,191 The Wellcome Trust
Professor MJ Davies and Professor K Khunti
ADDITION study
£20,602 MRC via Cambridge
Professor K Khunti and Professor MJ Davies
Prospective study of the prevalence of hypoglycaemia and associated risk factors for people with type 2 diabetes in primary care
£109,990 Primary Care Diabetes Society
Professor K Khunti and Professor MJ Davies
Investigating the characteristics of patients experiencing a severe hypoglycaemic event
£28,400 NovoNordisk
Professor MJ Davies
Diabetes Nutrition & Lifestyle Researcher
£89,029 UHL
Professor MJ Davies
Senior Investigator Award- continuation
£75,000 NIHR
Professor MJ Davies
CLAHRC Walking away from Diabetes and let's Prevent Diabetes support by Unilever
£46,495 Unilever
Professor MJ Davies and Dr T Yates
BRU Nutrition, Diet & Lifestyle
£2,270,857 NIHR
Professor I Squire
Cardiovascular microRNA collaboration with CRP-Sante
£6,666 CRP-Sante
Professor T Robinson
ENCHANTED
£69,030 The George Institute for Global Health
Professor T Robinson
TARDIS-2
£19,617 NIHR via Nottingham
Professor T Robinson
TICH2
£7,689 HTA via Nottingham
Professor A Gershlick
Randomised controlled trial comparing intracoronary adminstration of adensosine or sodium nitroprusside to control for attenuation of microvascular obstruction during primary percutaneous coronary intervention
£157,423 Dept Health via UHL
Dr A Mistri
Determination of prevalence and impact of post-stroke hyperglycaemia in a multi-ethnic population - Pilot Study
£9,872 Novo Nordisk
Dr Yusuf Rajabally
International Audit on European Federation of Neurological Societies/Peripheral
£38,462 European Federation of Neurological Societies
Professor I Gottlob
Access to ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography (UHR-SD OCT) to infants and children: characterisation of normal development and pathology
£130,000 The Ulverscraoft Foundation
Professor I Gottlob
Contribution towards the cost of purchasing an OCT device to be used primarily for research
£8,000 Nystagmus Network
Professor I Gottlob
Bioptigen Handheld OCT
£10,000 The Ulverscroft Foundation
Dr S Conroy and Dr I Musa
Specialist Registrar Start-up Research Grant
£5,642 British Geriatrics Society
Prof I Gottlob and Dr F Proudlock
Ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography (UHR-SD OCT) in infants and children: characterisation of normal and abnormal foveal development
£361,470 MRC
Dr G McCann
UHL funded Clinical Research Fellow post, to work with Dr G McCann.
£110,811 University Hospital of Leicester
Selected Research Grants in 2011
Dr G Ng
Remote monitoring: an evaluation of implantable devices for managment of heart failure patients
£200,788 British Heart Foundation via University of Southampton
Dr S Conroy
Improving Safety for older Public Transport Users
£10,063 MRC via Loughborough University
Dr S Scott, Prof D Lambert, Dr JP Thompson
Determination of N/OFQ release from leucocyte subtypes
£12,836 The Intensive Care Foundation
Prof I Squire
Cardiovascular microRNA collaboration with CRP-Sante
£6,666 CRP-Sante
Prof NJ Samani, Prof L Ng, Prof AH Goodall, Prof I Squire and Dr J Tedds and Ms M Visser (IT Services)
Cloud Computing Programme
£530,462 JISC
Prof M Mahaut-Smith, Dr I Forsythe (Cell Physiology and Pharmacology) and Prof AH Goodall
BHF Role of K+ channels in platelet and megakaryocyte function
£18,196 British Heart Foundation
Dr D Roland
A Model to Improve Resource Management Based on Patient Acuity in a Children’s Emergency Medicine Research Department
£5,250 The College of Emergency Medicine
Dr S Scott, Prof D Lambert, Dr JP Thompson
Differential Expression of nociceptin receptor (NOP) and pre-pro nociceptin/ orphanin FQ (pp-N/OFQ) amongst leucoctyes and their subpopulations
£12,815 Anaesthetic Research Society
Dr E Chung
Forecasting brain injury in the virtual patient
£259,268 BHF
Dr G McCann, Prof A Gershlick and Dr Greenwood (Leeds)
Complete Versus Lesio-only Primary PCI Pilot- Cardiac MRI substudy (CVLPRI-t-CMR)
£330,273 NIHR
Mr M Bown
The United Kingdom Aneurysm Growth Study
£100,000 The Circulation Foundation
Dr D Roland
Development of objective measures of assessing audiovisually based implementation resources
£219,943 NIHR Doctoral Fellowship
Prof MJ Davies and Prof K Khunti (Health Sciences)
An intervention to decrease sedentary behaviour in young adults at risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, STAND
£157,313 MRC via Loughborough and UHL
Dr S Mostafa
Exploring the glucose lowering properties of the sunshine vitamin - a 12 month RCT of Vitamin D
£194,863 NovoNordisk
Prof K Khunti (Health Sciences) and Prof MJ Davies
Research Foundation Pilot study on the development of an educational programme about the role and benefits of insulin therapy in South Asian people with type 2 diabetes
£43,000 Novo Nordisk
Prof NPJ Brindle
Understanding regulation of angiopoietin signalling in the endothelium using computational modelling
£168,772 BHF
Prof T Robinson
INTERACT2
£10,580 The George Institute for International Health Austrailia
Prof MJ Davies and Prof K Khunti (Health Sciences)
TREAT 4 Ramadan - A randomised Controlled Trial for People with Established Type 2 Diabetes during Ramadan - Liraglutide vs. Sulphonylurea or Pioglitazone
£209,997 Novo Nordisk
Prof T Coats and Prof P Monks (Chemistry)
A Pilot Study of Volatile Organic Compounds in Breathless Patients in the ED
£3,088 College of Emergency Medicine
Dr Clett Erridge
Food/Saliva test for risk of periodontitis
£15,169 University Of Nottingham
Dr GA Ng
Bodyguard study; EMDA funding application for the study in collaboration with Optima Life
£21,972 Optimalife
Dr GA Ng
Improving risk stratification and treatment with the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
£45,000 (supplement) Sorin
Prof A Gershlick
PRESTIGE: Prevention of Stent Thrombosis by an Interdisciplinary Global European effect
£449,123 CEC
Prof D Lambert and Prof D Rowbotham (Health Sciences)
'Characterisation of fentanyl based bivalent opioids' studentship
£67,771 British Journal of Anaesthesia
Selected Research Grants (2007-2010)
