Department of Biological Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 2000 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2021 2030

• 4 Not started
• 31 Active
• 401 Finished

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  ICURe Explore Programme ‐ Natural Compound Solutions

  Berry, H. (PI)

  Innovate UK

  16/10/24 → 31/01/25

  Project: Research

• Screening of MitoRx compounds in DMD muscle

  Malerba, A. (PI) & Lu-Nguyen, N. (Researcher)

  MitoRx Therapeutics Limited

  8/04/24 → 7/06/24

  Project: Research

• How do we know if it worked? Measuring nature-friendly behaviour change

  Papworth, S. (Fellow)

  British Academy

  29/03/24 → 28/03/25

  Project: Research

• Evaluating the potential for improving biodiversity on solar farms

  Simon, D. (PI) & Thomas, B. (CoI)

  1/02/24 → 30/11/24

  Project: Other

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• Modifying plant memories to make them more resilient to climate change

  Devoto, A. (PI) & Úbeda de Torres, F. (CoI)

  Gatsby Charitable Foundation

  1/02/24 → 31/07/24

  Project: Research

• BRAINS: Stroke in British Asians

  Sharma, P. (PI)

  Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  1/01/24 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

• Proof-of-concept demonstration that combined dystrophin restoration and periostin manipulation synergistically improve skeletal muscle pathology

  Malerba, A. (PI)

  Muscular Dystrophy UK

  1/12/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• SUSCAR: Improving the SUStainability profile of CARotenoid products

  Fraser, P. (PI), Enfissi, G. (CoI) & Berry, H. (Researcher)

  Biotechnology&BioSci Research BBSRC

  1/08/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• CARDEL: Sustainable production of carotenoid compounds and their delivery into the marketplace

  Fraser, P. (PI), Enfissi, G. (CoI), Perez, L. (CoI) & Berry, H. (Researcher)

  Biotechnology&BioSci Research BBSRC

  1/07/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research

• AgriBio: The potential of agrivoltaics as a means of enhancing bioactives from horticultural crops and their by-products

  Fraser, P. (PI)

  Biotechnology&BioSci Research BBSRC

  1/04/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• Resilient Nature: Subcontract

  Devoto, A. (PI)

  Innovate UK

  1/04/23 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• ORGINEER: 21EngBio: Organelle engineering for the production of useful bioproducts

  Fraser, P. (PI) & Enfissi, G. (CoI)

  Biotechnology&BioSci Research BBSRC

  15/02/23 → 14/02/24

  Project: Research

• To develop an assay capable of evaluating whether MitoRx compounds ameliorate the effects of oxidative stress on mitochondrial bioenergetics in DMD patient cells

  Lu-Nguyen, N. (Researcher) & Malerba, A. (PI)

  1/02/23 → 31/10/23

  Project: Research

• To develop an assay capable of evaluating whether MitoRx compounds ameliorate the effects of oxidative stress on mitochondrial bioenergetics in DMD patient cells

  Malerba, A. (PI)

  MitoRx Therapeutics Limited

  1/02/23 → 31/10/23

  Project: Research

• Proof‐of‐concept demonstration that combined dystrophin restoration and periostin manipulation synergistically improve skeletal muscle pathology

  Lu-Nguyen, N. (Researcher), Boulinguiez, A. (Researcher) & Malerba, A. (PI)

  1/01/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Metabolic “death signatures” in Drosophila melanogaster

  Augustin, H. (PI) & Snowden, S. (CoI)

  Biotechnology&BioSci Research BBSRC

  1/01/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Proof‐of‐concept demonstration that combined dystrophin restoration and periostin manipulation synergistically improve skeletal muscle pathology

  Malerba, A. (PI)

  Muscular Dystrophy UK

  1/01/23 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Enhancing muscle strength in muscular dystrophies through RPL3L inhibition

  Lu-Nguyen, N. (Researcher), March, J. (Researcher) & Malerba, A. (PI)

  7/12/22 → 6/12/23

  Project: Research

• Enhancing muscle strength in muscular dystrophies through RPL3L inhibition

  Malerba, A. (PI)

  AFM Telethon

  7/12/22 → 6/12/23

  Project: Research

• Improving Sugar Beet Seed Quality with Gas Plasma Activated Water (EPOWER)

  Leubner, G. (PI) & Steinbrecher, T. (CoI)

  KWS SAAT SE

  1/12/22 → 31/05/23

  Project: Research

• Studying the impact of novel seed treatments on crop seeds

  Leubner, G. (PI), Mani, A. (Student) & Steinbrecher, T. (CoI)

  1/10/22 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

• Metabolomic investigation of the effects of nonanoic acid and 4-MOA in a C9Orf72 Drosophila model of ALS

  Augustin, H. (PI) & Snowden, S. (CoI)

  Motor Neurone Disease Association

  15/08/22 → 14/10/22

  Project: Research

• Enhanced Steady-State Levels of Exon Skipped and gene therapy expressed “BMD-LIKE” Dystrophins Through Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) inhibition

  Malerba, A. (PI)

  Muscular Dystrophy UK

  3/05/22 → 2/05/23

  Project: Research

• Transformation of constructs with engineered promoters in Arabidopsis thaliana to assess expression characteristics

  Lopez Juez, E. (PI)

  Phytoform

  1/05/22 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• Novel gas-plasma and heat-shock priming technologies to improve seed quality and enhance vegetable food production sustainability with Tozer Seeds

  Leubner, G. (PI) & Walker, M. (CoI)

  1/05/22 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• An investigation of the synaptic role of the proto-oncogene Yorkie at the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction

  Augustin, H. (PI)

  Royal Society

  21/03/22 → 20/09/23

  Project: Research

• In Vivo Evaluation of Muscle Specific Synthetic Promoters

  Lu-Nguyen, N. (Researcher), Popplewell, L. (CoPI) & Malerba, A. (PI)

  14/03/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• In Vivo Evaluation of Muscle Specific Synthetic Promoters

  Popplewell, L. (PI) & Malerba, A. (PI)

  SynPromics Ltd

  14/03/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• CelFacto: 21EBTA: Engineering plant cell factories for the production of biomedicines and their ingredients

  Fraser, P. (PI) & Enfissi, G. (CoI)

  Biotechnology&BioSci Research BBSRC

  31/01/22 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research

• Engineering plant cell factories for the production of biomedicines and their ingredients

  Drapal, M. (Researcher), Fraser, P. (PI) & Enfissi, G. (CoI)

  31/01/22 → 30/01/24

  Project: Research

• Proof of concept study: Local in vivo delivery

  Popplewell, L. (PI)

  Replay Holdings LLC

  1/01/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• EVOBOMICS: Evolution of the interaction between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in bumblebees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus): the importance of numts and heteroplasmy

  Brown, M. J. F. (Mentor) & Francosco, E. (Fellow)

  European Commission

  4/10/21 → 3/10/23

  Project: Research

• Impact of seed treatment with biostimulants on the resilience of sugar beet early development to drought stress

  Leubner, G. (PI), Chandler, J. (CoI) & King, J. (Student)

  1/10/21 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Nature-based solutions for climate change at the landscape scale

  Lee, M. (CoI)

  1/10/21 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• Cultural evolution of bird song and air pollution

  Lachlan, R. (PI), Sarfati, M. (Student) & Leadbeater, E. (CoI)

  21/09/21 → 24/09/24

  Project: Research

• SaToBa: Improving salt tolerance and stress memory in barley

  Devoto, A. (Mentor) & Ganie, S. (Fellow)

  European Commission

  1/09/21 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

• Establishing a mouse model of disease to test combined antisense oligonucleotides and AAV systemic gene therapy as new treatment for Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

  Malerba, A. (PI)

  AFM Telethon

  1/09/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Identifying metabolic signatures of pathology in muscle and blood to identify biomarkers of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy.

  Snowden, S. (PI) & Popplewell, L. (CoI)

  AFM Telethon

  1/09/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• DeTecSeeD: Detection and diagnosis of seed-borne diseases utilising machine learning enhanced gas plasma integrated multispectral imaging

  Leubner, G. (PI) & Steinbrecher, T. (Researcher)

  Biotechnology&BioSci Research BBSRC

  1/08/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Improving Crop Seed Quality with Gas Plasma Activated Water (EPOWER)

  Leubner, G. (PI) & Steinbrecher, T. (CoI)

  KWS SAAT SE

  1/08/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

• Identification of novel modifiers of synaptic function, neurodegeneration and longevity in a Drosophila FTD/ALS model

  Augustin, H. (PI)

  Academy of Medical Sciences

  1/06/21 → 30/05/24

  Project: Research

• Optimisation of a gene therapy for Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

  Popplewell, L. (PI) & Malerba, A. (CoI)

  LifeArc

  17/05/21 → 16/05/24

  Project: Research

• Delivery of codon-optimised full-length dystrophin to muscle using 4BaseBio non-viral methodology - Phase 1

  Popplewell, L. (PI)

  4BaseBio Discovery

  4/05/21 → 3/10/21

  Project: Research

• In vitro screening for anti-DUX4 compounds

  Lu-Nguyen, N. (Researcher) & Popplewell, L. (PI)

  4/05/21 → 3/08/21

  Project: Research

• Pilot Study

  Popplewell, L. (PI)

  Healx

  4/05/21 → 3/08/21

  Project: Research

• RHUL Laboratory Products; creating commercial activity from knowledge transfer

  Fraser, P. (PI), Enfissi, G. (CoI) & Perez, L. (Researcher)

  Biotechnology&BioSci Research BBSRC

  1/04/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Enabling precision-agriculture in Ethiopia’s “orphan” teff crop by seed priming and seed pelleting

  Leubner, G. (PI), Steinbrecher, T. (CoI), Chanyalew, S. (CoI), Tadele, Z. (CoI) & Fatelnig, L. (Other)

  15/03/21 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

• Forecasting the impact of shifting the dispersal ability of organisms: from a global biodiversity crisis to the rise of pandemics

  Garcia Perez, C. (PI)

  Royal Society

  1/10/20 → 30/04/24

  Project: Research

• Automated robotic nitrogen diagnosis of arable soil

  Lee, M. (CoI)

  1/06/20 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Scaling-up biocontrol innovations in Africa

  Ratto, F. (Researcher)

  1/04/20 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research