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
| Panel | PI | Department | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy | Sam Au | Bioengineering | Mono-sized Microbubbles – Establishing a Commercial Beachhead Application |
| Healthy | Charles Bangham | Infectious Disease | Developing impactful infection diagnostics |
| Healthy | Rongjun Chen | Chemical Engineering | Formulation of RNA with novel virus-mimicking lipid nanoparticles for targeted intracellular delivery and long-term thermostability |
| Healthy | David Erritzoe | Brain Sciences | Multimodal neuroimaging and clinical study to investigate the effects of psilocybin therapy in Gambling disorder: proof of concept study |
| Healthy | Paul French | Physics | Low-cost clinical multiplexed immunofluorescence microscopy |
| Healthy | Jethro Herberg | Infectious Disease | MARPLE (MagMove RNA Purification and Lateral flow Evaluation) |
| Healthy | James Howard | National Heart and Lung Institute | Autonomous cardiac MRI scanning using artificial intelligence: a randomised controlled trial |
| Healthy | Julian Jones | Materials | Translation of Cotton Wool Bioglass for Licensing |
| Healthy | Uta Griesenbach | National Heart and Lung Institute | Development of non-viral gene therapy for pulmonary alveolar proteinosis |
| Healthy | Anastasios Karadimitris | Immunology and Inflammation | Developing cord blood iNKT cells as an optimal platform for ‘off-the-shelf’ immunotherapy of blood cancers |
| Healthy | Sylvain Ladame | Bioengineering | Improving risk stratification of preterm birth via a screening blood test at first antenatal appointment with high predictive value. |
| Healthy | Fu Siong Ng | National Heart and Lung Institute | Artificial-intelligence enabled electrograms to prevent unnecessary and harmful defibrillator shocks |
| Healthy | David James Pinato | Surgery and Cancer | An artificial intelligence-based approach to identify immunologic predictors of outcome to immunotherapy in hepatocellular cancer using digital pathology |
| Healthy | Tamir Rashid | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Pluripotent stem cell derived hepatocytes for liver failure (PUSH for LIFE) |
| Healthy | Lan Zhao | National Heart and Lung Institute | UKRI IAA - Inhaled Exenatide for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: a proof of concept study to evaluate safety and acute haemodynamic effects of inhaled GLP-1 agonist treatment in PAH patients. |
| Resilient | Tolga Bozkurt | Life Sciences | Enhancing Heat Stress Resilience in Crops: Reprograming of Autophagy |
| Resilient | Livia Cupertino-Malheiros | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Generating a material database to enable the Virtual Testing paradigm in hydrogen-containing environments |
| Resilient | Ana Mijic | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Integrated Water Planning Portal for Digital Planning Applications and Sustainable Urban Design |
| Resilient | David Taborda | Civil and Environmental Engineering | SIDeTools – Smart Infrastructure Design Tools |
| Smart | Rossella Arcucci | Earth Science and Engineering | UKRI IAA - PURITY (Pollution Update, Reporting and Information For You) |
| Smart | Bernadette Byrne | Life Sciences | Development of a high-throughput lipid screen for membrane protein stability. |
| Smart | James Choi | Bioengineering | A Smart Wristband for Tracking Hand Gestures in Virtual and Augmented Reality |
| Smart | Bruno Clerckx | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Creating 6G Impact through Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) prototyping |
| Smart | Chris Dunsby | Physics | Proof of concept and development of prototype openFrame dual-view oblique plane microscopy system |
| Smart | Fatemeh Geranmayeh | Brain Sciences | SONIVA: Speech recOgNItion Validation in Aphasia |
| Sustainable | Wendy Barclay | Infectious Disease | Discovering specific mutations that abrogate the support of ANP32 proteins for influenza polymerase, for generating robustly influenza-resistant gene-edited chickens. |
| Sustainable | Pelin Demirel | School of Design Engineering | Green Behaviour Interventions in Operating Theatres - Prototyping and Proof of Concept |
| Sustainable | Iuliia Elizarova | Mechanical Engineering | Graphene-enabled universal laser additive manufacturing |
| Sustainable | Ann Huang | Materials | Development of a prototype machine for novel dry electrode manufacturing for lithium ion batteries |
| Sustainable | John-Paul Latham | Earth Science and Engineering | SolidDrill: Innovative Geothermal Drilling Simulation Software for Breaking Barriers and Investment |
| Sustainable | Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro | Bioengineering | Scaling-up the production of a novel blue dye using a yeast-based platform |
| Sustainable | Nan Li | School of Design Engineering | Accelerate a New Energy Efficient Titanium Forming Technology towards Industrial Applications |
| Sustainable | Camille Petit | Chemical Engineering | Graphene-enhanced concrete for sustainable construction |
| Sustainable | Eduardo Saiz | Materials | UKRI IAA -Digital Light Processing of SiC |
Round 4
| Panel | PI | Department | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy | Sam Au | Bioengineering | Microfluidic T Cell Selection by Cellular Avidity for Cancer Immunotherapy |
| Healthy | Andrew Grieve | School of Public Health | WorkAir |
| Healthy | Aylin Hanyaloglu | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Pre-clinical models of a novel therapeutic agent in pre-term labour |
| Healthy | Jonathan Jeffers | Mechanical Engineering | Improving the useability and safety while shortening the duration of fracture fixation surgery. |
| Healthy | Kartik Logishetty | Surgery and Cancer | Development of an augmented reality tool for personalised periacetabular osteotomy |
| Healthy | Connor Myant | School of Design Engineering | A novel device to prevent epidural hyperthermia: Providing real world impact by bridging the translational gap |
| Healthy | Asha Kumari Patel | National Heart and Lung Institute | Bioactive nanomaterials for nucleic acid delivery |
| Healthy | Talya Porat | School of Design Engineering | Holistic Integrated Visualisation to enhance situation awareness and improve decision making in primary care – proof of concept |
| Healthy | Robin Shattock | Infectious Disease | Ribose enhanced RNA POC study |
| Healthy | Edward Tate | Chemistry | Exemplifying a novel cleavable linker for non-internalising ADCs activated in the tumour microenvironment |
| Healthy | John Tregoning | Infectious Disease | Increasing Technology readiness level (TRL) of a novel RNA vaccine for antimicrobial resistant bacterial pneumonia |
| Healthy | Richard van Arkel | Mechanical Engineering | Active Bone-growing Implants: A Prototype for Engaging with Regulators and Payors |
| Smart | Daan Arroo | Materials | From the lab to the mainstream: Industrial Engagement for Room Temperature Masers |
| Smart | Frederic Cegla | Mechanical Engineering | Miniature, low-power, coded excitation, ultrasonic phased array acquisition prototype |
| Smart | Jack Gartside | Physics | Deep Optical Physical Neural Networks for Low-Energy Neuromorphic Machine Vision |
| Smart | Thrishantha Nanayakkara | School of Design Engineering | A portable soft haptic mouse (PSHM) to enable tactile interaction with digital objects |
| Smart | Timothy Runcorn | Physics | Next generation laser sources for resilient satellite communications |
| Smart | Felice Torrisi | Chemistry | The IonGO Platform: On the spot chemical diagnostics using a sprayed graphene transistor platform |
| Sustainable | Samuel Humphry-Baker | Materials | Scalable manufacturing of shielding materials for fusion energy. |
| Sustainable | Matthew Jackson | Earth Science and Engineering | A fast and accurate numerical simulator for modelling shallow geothermal and underground thermal energy storage deployments in heterogeneous aquifers |
| Sustainable | Jun Jiang | Mechanical Engineering | Revolutionising Hot Stamping: A High-Accuracy Digital Method for the Future Automotive Industry |
| Sustainable | Julianna Panidi | Chemistry | Flexible Sustainable Solar Cells Powering Microelectronics |
| Sustainable | Ronny Pini | Chemical Engineering | DPSORB - Automated Dual-Purpose Sorption Equilibrium and Kinetics Analyzer |
| Sustainable | Ifan Stephens | Materials | ElectroSynth: Electrocatalytic oxidation of HMF to produce a valuable bio-based monomer to produce a green alternative to PET plastics. |
| Sustainable | Michael Templeton | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Translating sanitation research to action: Resource recovery from on-site sanitation systems in Rwanda and Uganda |
| Sustainable | Nikolai Windbichler | Life Sciences | Screening of Synthetic LRR Domain Variants Against Plant Pathogen Effectors as a Proof-of-Concept for a New Approach to NLR Engineering |
Round 5
| Panel | PI | Dept | Title |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Benjamin Almquist | Bioengineering | Bioinspired MedTech for Next Generation Wound Care via Patient-Derived Therapeutics |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Paul Bentley | Brain Sciences | Closed-loop EMG-haptic armband for home-based neurorehabilitation |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Rongjun Chen | Chemical Engineering | In vivo evaluation of 2'-O-Methyl modified saRNA vaccine potency and stability formulated by different polymeric delivery systems |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Guido Franzoso | Immunology and Inflammation | Accelerating the clinical impact of the first-in-class inhibitor, DTP3, in patients with multiple myeloma and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Paul French | Physics | PolSpec – broadband cost-effective hyperspectral imaging for biomedicine, sensing and analytical science. |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Nicolas Newell | Bioengineering | Prototyping and pre-clinical validation testing of a novel spinal implant |
| Innovation for a healthy society | David Peeler | Materials | Global partnership for global health: Scaling pABOL synthesis to enable translation of next generation saRNA vaccines |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena | Mechanical Engineering | An atraumatic cochlear implant insertion device for enhanced and more accessible hearing |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Talia Shmool | Infectious Disease | Polyethylene glycol-free lipid nanoparticles for RNA delivery |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Reiko Tanaka | Bioengineering | EczemaPred - A prototype machine learning tool for personalised prediction of eczema severity |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Edward Tate | Chemistry | High-throughput discovery of first-in-class S-acylation inhibitors as novel inducers of antitumour immunity. |
| Innovation for a healthy society | Daryl Williams | Chemical Engineering | Peptide Manufacture: Synthesis and Purification |
| Innovation for a resilient society | Nathan Gemmell | Physics | Quantum Undetected Cryptography |
| Innovation for a resilient society | Firat Guder | Bioengineering | Digitalizing Lateral Flows Assays for in-field detection of crop diseases |
| Innovation for a smart society | David Labonte | Bioengineering | scAnt – a low-cost, open source photogrammetry kit |
| Innovation for a smart society | Spyros Masouros | Bioengineering | Injury prediction of mass casualty events for planning and response |
| Innovation for a smart society | Diego Mesa | Earth Science and Engineering | Next-Generation Sensor Technologies for Real-Time Monitoring of Industrial Flotation Cells |
| Innovation for a smart society | Maria Papathanasiou | Chemical Engineering | FlexDesign: a digital tool for eco-efficient and sustainable process design |
| Innovation for a smart society | Ludovic Renson | Mechanical Engineering | A Unified Framework for Control-based Continuation |
| Innovation for a smart society | Michael Vanner | Physics | Quantum coherent microwave-to-optical conversion: A first step out of the lab and into the marketplace |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | George Britovsek | Chemistry | Catalytic Oxidation of Methane to Methanol: A Solution to a ‘Holy Grail’ in Chemistry |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Henry Burridge | Civil and Environmental Engineering | The CHEPA Tool: co-designing and delivering a Web App for users to assess the impact of air filters in classrooms |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Mark Crimmin | Chemistry | Chemical Recycling of HFCs |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Leroy Gardner | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Industrialising a new green hybrid construction concept featuring conventional steelwork and metal additive manufacturing (HYCAMS) |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Paul Hooper | Mechanical Engineering | NEXUS: An in-process quality assurance platform for metal additive manufacturing |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Jun Jiang | Mechanical Engineering | Commercializing Lightweight Bimetallic Gears to Lead a Sustainable Future |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Omar Matar | Chemical Engineering | Advancing Sustainable Food Production through an Automated Rapid Prototyping Platform for Agrochemical Delivery (ARPPAD) |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Jenny Nelson | Physics | Enabling combined food and electricity production by supporting agrivoltaic demonstrators |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Ioannis Nikiforidis | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Ultra Compact, High-power Supply Units for the Emerging Energy Demands of AI Data Centres. |
| Innovation for a sustainable society | Magda Titirici | Chemical Engineering | Developing Commercially-competitive Hard Carbon Anodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries - Unlocking Low-Cost Industrial Streams |