Cambridge BHF CRE 2019-2024 Pump-Priming Funds
Cambridge BHF Centre of Research Excellence (2019-2024) has awarded up to £1,000,000 to support innovative ideas through pump-priming. The funds help our researchers produce preliminary data before they submit a project grant application to an external funding body.
Our current award holders (11 projects) are listed below.
| Name | Title | Award | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Dirk Paul, Dr Adam Butterworth, Dr Hilary Martin (Sanger) | Phenotypic analysis of “human knockouts” of coronary artery disease risk genes | £24,530 | 2019 |
| Professor Dino A. Giussani, Prof. Nick W. Morrell, Prof. Mike P. Murphy, Prof. Susan E. Ozanne | Developmental Programming of Pulmonary Hypertension | £49,308 | 2019 |
| Prof. A. Vidal-Puig, Dr. Thomas Krieg | Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms linking heart failure and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease | £40,000 | 2019 |
| Dr Adam Butterworth, Dr Eoin McKinney | The role of autoantibodies in cardiovascular disease: a pilot study | £41,000 | 2019 |
| Dr. Praveen Surendran, Dr. Angela M. WoodProf. John Danesh, Dr Adam Butterworth | Protein N-glycosylation as functional intermediate phenotypes of cardiovascular disease (CVD) | £50,000 | 2019 |
| Prof Ziad Mallat,Prof George Vassiliou | Clonal haematopoiesis and abdominal aortic aneurysm | £46,526 | 2019 |
| Dr Nick Evans, Prof Hugh Markus, Dr Sofia Villar, (MRC-BSU), Dr Zhongzhao Teng | Inhibiting HDAC9 as a novel treatment for large artery atherosclerotic stroke: a pilot study | £45,460 | 2019 |
| Dr Navazh Jalaludeen, Dr Kaisa Maki-Petaja , Dr Thomas Krieg, Dr Joseph Cheriyan, Prof Menna Clatworthy, Dr Andrew Conway Morris, Dr Vilas Navapurkar, Dr Peter Pugh, Dr Stephen Hoole, Dr Alain Vuylsteke, Dr Jonathan Weir-McCall,Dr Paul Cacciottolo, Dr Will Watson | Cambridge Investigation of Cardiac Complications of Severe COVID-19 (CICERO-19) | £25,000 | 2020 |
| Dr Jason Tarkin, Dr Meritxell Nus, Dr Andrew Sage, Tian Zhao, Deepa Gopalan, Dr Andrej Corovic, Dr James Rudd, Prof Ziad Mallat | Multi-modality imaging and immunophenotyping of COVID-19 related myocardial injury | £25,000 | 2020 |
| Dr Sanjay Sinha, Prof. Anthony Davenport (Clinical Pharmacology), Prof. Paul Lehner (Medicine), Dr Nick Matheson (Medicine). | Cardiovascular involvement in COVID-19 | £25,000 | 2020 |
| Cedric Ghevaert, Amie Waller | Molecular mechanism underlying late-stage pathology in COVID19 – platelets and megakaryocytes | £4,500 | 2020 |