DYNAFLUORS
TM
Dynamic
Fluorophores
Activatable
Fluorescence lifetime imaging signatures for early diagnosis of lung cancer, and its regulation through the adenosine pathways
Funding body: UKRI
Grant value: £2,158,103
Period: 2024-2028
Role: co-I (PI: Ahsan Akram)
Organic D-dots for imaging infectious diseases
Funding body: EPSRC IAA
Grant value: €59,935
Period: 2024-2025
Role: co-PI (with Eli Zysman-Colman)
Near infrared fluorescence in Wilms tumour organoids
Funding body: Little Princess Trust
Grant value: £274,866
Period: 2024-2026
Role: co-I (PI: Max Pachl)
Disruptive technologies for rapid detection of renal transplant rejection
Funding body: ERC Proof of Concept Grant - EU Commission
Grant value: €150,000
Period: 2024-2025
Role: PI
Measurement of granzyme B activity in renal transplant patients: a pilot feasibility study
Funding body: Kidney Research UK
Grant value: €39,627
Period: 2023-2024
Role: co-I (PI: Steve Knight)
IBDSense
Funding body: Scottish Enterprise (Company Creation)
Grant value: £199,760
Period: 2023-2024
Role: PI
Non-invasive technologies for diagnosis and monitoring of inflammatory bowel diseases
Funding body: EIC Transition
Grant value: €2,466,590
Period: 2022-2025
Role: PI
Development of pH sensitive dyes for intracellular trafficking of ADCs
Funding body: AbbVie
Grant value: £274,000
Period: 2023-2024
Role: PI
Translational photonic fingerprinting
Funding body: MRC
Grant value: £398,477
Period: 2022-2023
Role: co-I (PI: Kev Dhaliwal)
IBDSense
Funding body: Scottish Enterprise (High Growth Spin Out Opportunity Qualification)
Grant value: £74,785
Period: 2022-2023
Role: PI
Metabolic photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy of brain cancer
Funding body: ESPRC Healthcare Technologies
Grant value: £750,172
Period: 2022-2025
Role: PI
Instantaneous point-of-care testing of tacrolimus concentrations within transplant patients
Funding body: 4MD - Heriott-Watt University
Grant value: £80,060
Period: 2021-2022
Role: co-I (PI: Richard Carter)
Pathways to reducing the burden of corneal ulcer in India and beyond
Funding body: UKRI
Grant value: £1,874,632
Period: 2022-2026
Role: co-I (PI: Beth Mills)
Lead optimisation of metabolic photosensitizers for precise
resection of glioblastoma
Funding body: MRC (Confidence in Concept)
Grant value: £125,544
Period: 2021
Role: PI
Novel imaging biomarkers of T cell function to accelerate immunotherapies for pancreatic cancer
Funding body: Medical Research Scotland
Grant value: £121,993
Period: 2021-2025
Role: PI
Multimodal coherent Raman and two-photon fluorescence imaging as a discovery tool in bioscience
Funding body: BBSRC
Grant value: £303,121
Period: 2020-2021
Role: co-I (PI: Val Brunton)
High-precision tools for intraoperative brain cancer surgery
Funding body: MRC (DTP in Precision Medicine)
Grant value: £100,000
Period: 2020-2024
Role: PI (with Paul Brennan and EM Imaging)
Nanoparticle-based imaging and therapy of chronic pain in the
dorsal root ganglia
Funding body: MSCA-ITN, EU Commission
Grant value: €4,093,424
Period: 2020-2024
Role: Project Partner (Coordinator: Percuros BV)
Identifying therapeutic targets for retinitis pigmentosa by
defining photoreceptor cell death
Funding body: Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh
Grant value: £60,000
Period: 2020-2021
Role: co-I (PI: Roly Megaw)
Disruptive fluorescent technologies for inflammatory bowel diseases
Funding body: ERC Proof of Concept Grant - EU Commission
Grant value: €150,000
Period: 2021-2022
Role: PI
Developing a decision-making kit for the personalised treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
Funding body: MRC (DTP in Precision Medicine)
Grant value: £105,000
Period: 2019-2023
Role: PI (with Gwo-tzer Ho and Genentech)
Fluorescent sensors for super-resolution microscopy to revolutionise the imaging of neurodegeneration
Funding body: Sydney-Edinburgh Partnership Collaboration Awards
Grant value: 20,000 AUD
Period: 2019-2020
Role: PI (co-PI: Margaret Sunde)
Proactive monitoring of cancer as an alternative to surgery
Funding body: MSCA-RISE, EU Commission
Grant value: €2,484,000
Period: 2020-2024
Role: Project Partner (Coordinator: Percuros BV)
Novel applications in 19F magnetic resonance imaging
Funding body: MSCA-ITN - EU Commission
Grant value: €4,051,634
Period: 2020-2024
Role: Project Partner (Coordinator: Leiden LUMC)
Super-resolution microscopy probes for neurodegenerative disorders
Funding body: EPSRC (CDT SOFI)
Grant value: £80,000
Period: 2018-2022
Role: co-I (PI: Mathew Horrocks)
Single-molecule detection of protein aggregates under flow
Funding body: Alzheimer's Research UK
Grant value: £39,609
Period: 2018-2019
Role: co-I (PI: Mathew Horrocks)
Novel fluorescent biomarkers of apoptosis in diseased tissues
Funding body: WT-iTPA
Grant value: £20,000
Period: 2018-2019
Role: PI
Development of a fluorogenic platform for imaging second messenger ion flux in macrophages
Funding body: EPSRC/MRC
Grant value: £80,000
Period: 2018-2022
Role: co-I (PI: Glenn Burley)
Through tissue imaging of bacterial infections using SESORS imaging
Funding body: EPSRC/MRC
Grant value: £90,000
Period: 2018-2022
Role: co-I (PI: Karen Faulds)
Functional imaging probes for GLUT4 localisation
Funding body: The Royal Society
Grant value: £12,000
Period: 2018-2020
Role: PI
iCBMIc 2019
Funding body: British Korean Society
Grant value: £1,000
Period: 2018-2019
Role: PI
Dynamic Activatable Fluorophores
Funding body: ERC Consolidator Grant - EU Commission
Grant value: €1,986,650
Period: 2018-2023
Role: PI
A new chemical platform for the rational design of drug-immunotherapy combinations for the treatment of pancreatic cancer
Funding body: Alfonso Martin Escudero Fundation
Grant value: €70,000
Period: 2018-2020
Role: PI
Nanosensors to measure phosphorylation potential
Grant value: £25,000
Period: 2017
Role: co-I (PI: Colin Campbell)
The role of macrophage CD71 and iron metabolism in lung fibrosis
Funding body: EPSRC/MRC
Grant value: £80,000
Period: 2017-2021
Role: co-I (PI: Nik Hirani)
New chemical imaging probes for real-time detection of apoptosis and enhanced monitoring of inflammatory diseases
Funding body: Royal Society Research Grant
Grant value: £15,000
Period: 2016-2017
Role: PI
Development of new chemokine-based probes for imaging metastasis-associated macrophages
Funding body: Wellcome Trust-Institutional Strategic Support Fund
Grant value: £44,950
Period: 2016-2017
Role: co-I (PI: Takanori Kitamura)
Fluorescent small molecule probes to investigate neutrophil function
Funding body: EPSRC/MRC
Grant value: £80,000
Period: 2016-2020
Role: co-PI (with Ian Dransfileld)
Smart theranostic agents for the tumour microenvironment
Funding body: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship - EU Commission
Grant value: €195,455
Period: 2017-2019
Role: PI
Novel theranostic agents for enhanced diagnosis and minimally invasive therapy of cervical cancer
Funding body: Medical Research Scotland
Grant value: £107,677
Period: 2016-2020
Role: PI (with EM Imaging)
Optical Coherence Tomography for imaging macrophages in cardiovascular disease
Funding body: EPSRC-MRC
Grant value: £80,000
Period: 2015-2019
Role: co-I (PI: Marc Dweck)
Unraveling host-pathogen interactions in the pathogenesis of cryptococcosis using optical and in vivo imaging methods
Funding body: Infect-ERA, EU Commission
Grant value: €775,325
Period: 2015-2018
Role: Project Partner (Coordinator: Uwe Himmelreich)
Novel fluorophores for imaging in vivo the tumour microenvironment
Funding body: EPSRC-MRC-Scottish Funding Council
Grant value: £85,000
Period: 2015-2019
Role: PI
Development of phloem-mobile xenobiotics with enhanced transport properties
Funding body: BBSRC Industrial Partnership Award
Grant value: £981,291
Period: 2015-2019
Role: PI (with Karl Oparka)
Specific fluorogenic peptides for imaging metastasis-associated macrophages
Funding body: Marie Curie Individual Fellowship - EU Commission
Grant value: €183,445
Period: 2015-2017
Role: PI
New chemical smartprobes for diagnosis, molecular characterisation and therapy of human cancer by optical molecular imaging
Funding body: Alfonso Martin Escudero Fundation
Grant value: €60,700
Period: 2015-2016
Role: PI
SESORS imaging of bacterial infection using responsive enhanced Raman reporters
Funding body: EPSRC/MRC
Grant value: £82,000
Period: 2014-2018
Role: co-I (PI: Karen Faulds)
Activatable probes as smart diagnostic tools for microendoscopy imaging
Funding body: Marie Curie Integration Grant, EU Commission
Grant value: €100,000
Period: 2013-2017
Role: PI
Multiplexed fluorescent probes for in vivo imaging of reactive oxygen species in zebrafish inflammatory models
Funding body: Wellcome Trust-Institutional Strategic Support Fund
Grant value: £25,000
Period: 2014
Role: PI
Molecular probes to define the pulmonary macrophage response in rat and man
Funding body: NC3R CRACK-IT
Grant value: £98,639
Period: 2013-2014
Role: co-PI (with Mark Bradley)
Developing near-infrared to visible up-conversion nanoparticles for three-dimensional in vivo cancer imaging
Funding body: A*STAR, Singapore
Grant value: 966,000 SGD
Period: 2012-2015
Role: co-I (PI: Xiaogang Liu)
