Supported Projects
The UKRI IAA has supported the following projects.
Supported Projects
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
Round 3 is currently in progress
Round 4
Round 4 is currently planned for later in 2023.