2019-20 Innovation Fund Awards

2019/20 Innovation Fund

The full list of the 2019/20 Fund award recipients.

• Objective measurements of cochlear health using a cochlear implant: towards a biological therapy for hearing loss
• Transcranial modulation of brain oscillatory activity in people with tinnitus: a concurrent transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) - magnetoencephalography (MEG) study
• Proof of concept study: new pancreatic cyst wall biopsy method for early cancer diagnosis by next generation sequencing analysis
• Deep nutritional phenotyping of Crohn’s Disease patients with Sarcopenia
• Investigation of gastrointestinal changes in Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Determining optimal protein nutrition in care home residents: towards a nutritional strategy for improving health-span, muscle mass and function
• Establishment of asthma and COPD registers in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), to support an application to the MRC Joint Global Health Trials Scheme for a trial of Vitamin D and COPD with further studies to follow
• Novel approaches to proton-based MRI of the lung employing UTE and ZTE sequences for translational research
• What is the impact of starting Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulators on the microbiome and clinical measures of disease?
• Development of 4D flow for use in clinical research
• Perinatal Psychosis Monitoring using the True Blue Virtual Human Interaction