Department of Life Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 1995 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2029

• 19 Not started
• 134 Active
• 721 Finished

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  IMPACT - Creating an intracellular screening platform for cyclic peptide drug discovery

  Mason, J. (PI) & Tang, S. (Researcher CoI)

  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  1/11/24 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research council

• Embedding mathematical foundations in single molecule data analysis

  Dodson, C. (PI), Rohrbeck, C. (PI) & Walker, B. (PI)

  1/11/24 → 1/03/25

  Project: Research-related funding

• Tackling the Undruggable Cancer Proteome with Covalent Macrocycles

  Lovell, S. (PI) & Van Den Elsen, J. (CoI)

  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  1/10/24 → 30/09/27

  Project: Research council

• FLF Reducing cannabis harms through evidence-based drug policy

  Freeman, T. (PI), Hines, L. (CoI), Husbands, S. (CoI), Pryer, T. (CoI), Pudney, C. (CoI), Sunderland, P. (CoI), Ehrhardt, B. (Researcher) & Lees, R. (Researcher)

  UK Research & Innovation

  1/10/24 → 30/09/28

  Project: Research council

• Revolver Therapeutics - Targeting AP-1 and DLX Transcription factors in paediatric gliomas

  Mason, J. (PI) & Jones, C. (CoI)

  1/09/24 → 31/08/26

  Project: UK industry

  • Transcription Factors 100%
  • DNA-binding Protein 100%

• EPSRC IAA Open Call: Bridging the Gap in Realising the Biomedical Impact of NIR Emitting Chemicals

  Pascu, S. (PI), Estrela, P. (CoI), Pourzand, C. (CoI) & Green, M. (Researcher)

  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  15/08/24 → 28/02/25

  Project: Research council

• Do lipid droplets promote aggressive medulloblastoma tumour growth and if, so, can we do anything about it?

  Niklison Chirou, M. (PI)

  The Academy of Medical Sciences

  15/04/24 → 14/04/26

  Project: UK charity

• Ensilicating therapeutic antibodies for room temperature transport and storage

  Dodson, C. (PI)

  Royal Society of Chemistry

  1/04/24 → 31/03/25

  Project: UK charity

• The role of plasmid fusion in the evolution of pathogenic bacteria

  Feil, E. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  31/03/24 → 30/03/26

  Project: Research council

• Synthesis of Targeted Covalent Macrocycle Libraries

  Lovell, S. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/03/24 → 31/08/25

  Project: Research council

• Knowledge Exchange visit to Bossuyt Lab, Leuven, Belgium

  Tansley, S. (PI)

  Bath Institute For Rheumatic Diseases

  1/02/24 → 31/01/25

  Project: UK charity

• Pharmacy research priorities in the South-West: engaging and involving patients, the public and healthcare professionals

  Jones, M. (PI), Jones, S. (CoI), McGrogan, A. (CoI), Rennie, T. (CoI), Slatter, M. (CoI) & Mitchell, A. (CoI)

  1/02/24 → …

  Project: Research-related funding

• Promoting the regression of angiogenesis in the pathology of rheumatoid arthritis

  Mackenzie, A. (PI), Lindsay, M. (CoI) & Tansley, S. (CoI)

  Bath Institute For Rheumatic Diseases

  1/02/24 → 30/04/25

  Project: UK charity

• Entrepreneur in Residence

  Ward, S. (PI), Eccleston, C. (CoI), Gill, R. (CoI) & Larijani, B. (CoI)

  The Royal Society

  8/01/24 → 8/01/26

  Project: Research council

• Increasing capacity in the NHS - Development of technologies to increase delivery of injectible medicines in the community

  Watts, A. (PI), Fincham Haines, T. (CoI), Fotaki, N. (CoI), Martinez Hernandez, U. (CoI), Tosh, D. (CoI) & Şimşek, Ö. (CoI)

  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  1/01/24 → 31/12/28

  Project: Research council

• Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship Renewal - Tiffany Brook Taylor - Role of Genetic and Environmental Drivers in Novel Gene Regulation

  Taylor, T. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  5/12/23 → 4/12/26

  Project: Research council

• Generating zebrafish genetic models for childhood epilepsies

  Nikolaou, N. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/12/23 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research council

• Innovation Bridge Beacon

  Defazio, D. (CoPI), Dimov, D. (PI), Salandra, R. (CoPI), Failla, V. (CoPI), Roberts, A. (Researcher CoI), Desyllas, P. (Researcher CoI), Iatridis, K. (CoI) & Ananth, P. (CoI)

  8/11/23 → …

  Project: Research-related funding

  • Entrepreneurship 100%
  • Multiplicity 100%
  • Research Project 50%
  • Innovation Process 50%
  • Transdisciplinary 50%

• CHROMATIN ORGANISATION AND REGULATION OF PARARSITISM-ASSOCIATED GENOMIC ISLANDS IN PARASITIC NEMATODE GENOMES

  Hunt, V. (PI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/11/23 → 31/10/26

  Project: Research council

  • Genomic Island 100%
  • Nematode 100%
  • Parasitic Nematodes 100%
  • Helminth 27%
  • DNA Sequence 18%

• Maio Biodiversity Foundation - Foundation document (in Portuguese)

  Szekely, T. (PI)

  20/10/23 → …

  Project: Other

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• CFG Scale up low emission yeast technology

  Henk, D. (PI) & Chuck, C. (CoI)

  Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect

  2/10/23 → 30/06/25

  Project: Central government, health and local authorities

  • Food Group 100%
  • Food Companies 33%
  • Shelf Life 33%
  • Consumer Interest 33%
  • Cooking Fat and Oil 33%

• BATS NOISE PHD: Impact of noise on bats - PHD Project

  Stone, E. (PI)

  1/10/23 → 30/09/26

  Project: Research-related funding

• Structural analysis of clostridial toxins, their analogues and derivatives

  Acharya, R. (PI)

  1/10/23 → 30/09/27

  Project: UK industry

• BrainHealth - Decoding life course pathways of mental ageing - Frontier Research Guarantee

  Walton, E. (PI) & Ward, A. (CoI)

  EPSRC

  1/10/23 → 30/09/28

  Project: EU Commission

  • Senescence 100%
  • Mouse Model 66%
  • Sample Size 33%
  • Lifespan 33%
  • Epigenetics 33%

• Development and Validation of a Multi-functional, Multi-purpose Quantitative Tool for Dermal Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling

  Delgado-Charro, B. (PI) & Guy, R. (CoI)

  5/09/23 → 31/08/25

  Project: Other

• Particle-surface adhesive forces and their role in resuspension phenomena

  Jones, M. (PI)

  1/09/23 → 31/08/27

  Project: Research-related funding

• Using big data to investigate foetal and child outcomes following exposure to antiepileptics in pregnancy

  McGrogan, A. (PI), Charlton, R. (Researcher) & Ehrhardt, B. (Researcher)

  Epilepsy Research UK

  1/09/23 → 28/02/26

  Project: UK charity

• Novel customisable peptide-based biomaterials for healthcare applications

  Mehrban, N. (PI)

  The Academy of Medical Sciences

  23/08/23 → 22/08/25

  Project: UK charity

• BBSRC Liverpool 2 - The structure and function of nematode pathogenicity islands

  Hunt, V. (PI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  17/07/23 → 16/07/26

  Project: Research council

  • Nematode 100%
  • Pathogenicity Island 100%
  • Parasitic Nematodes 55%
  • Strongyloides 44%
  • Pathogenicity 33%

• An Intracellular Helix-constrained Peptide Library Screening Platform to Derive Functional Transcription Factor Antagonists

  Mason, J. (PI) & Van Den Elsen, J. (CoI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/07/23 → 30/06/26

  Project: Research council

  • Transcription Factors 100%
  • Peptide Library 94%
  • Transcription 38%
  • Activating Transcription Factor 3 30%
  • Legumain 30%

• Determining the cytoplasmic interactome of an RNA splicing regulator during neuronal connectivity

  Nikolaou, N. (PI)

  The Academy of Medical Sciences

  22/06/23 → 21/06/25

  Project: UK charity

• A Phage Display Approach to Identify Targeted Covalent Cyclic Peptides for Undruggable Proteins

  Lovell, S. (PI)

  The Academy of Medical Sciences

  1/06/23 → 31/08/25

  Project: UK charity

• Proteostatic regulation of Glioblastoma stemness

  Licchesi, J. (PI)

  MRC

  1/06/23 → 31/05/27

  Project: Research council

  • Brain Cancer in Adults 100%
  • Ribosome 100%
  • Glioblastoma 100%
  • Malignant Neoplasm 20%
  • Cancer Cell 13%

• North Somerset Bat Survey

  Stone, E. (PI)

  North Somerset Council

  1/05/23 → 30/04/26

  Project: Central government, health and local authorities

• The Structure and Function of Nematode Pathogenicity Islands

  Hunt, V. (PI)

  1/05/23 → 30/04/26

  Project: Research council

• The structural and thermodynamic dissection of the interdomain cooperativity of human ACE

  Acharya, R. (PI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/04/23 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research council

  • Enzyme 100%
  • Angiotensin 100%
  • Cooperation 50%
  • X-Ray Crystallography 15%
  • Enzyme Specificity 15%

• Recreating healthy muscles: understanding need and establishing a partnership with the ageing community

  Mehrban, N. (PI)

  30/03/23 → 30/03/25

  Project: Other

  • Chronic Pain 100%
  • Lived Experience 100%
  • Arthritis 100%
  • Personal Experience 100%

• Fully Automated Platforms for Drug Nanocrystals Manufacturing via Continuous-Flow, Data-Driven Antisolvent Crystallization

  Craig, D. (PI)

  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  1/03/23 → 28/02/25

  Project: Research council

• A Combined and Automated High Throughput Parallel Peptide Synthesis Platform.

  Mason, J. (PI)

  1/02/23 → 31/01/25

  Project: Research council

• Understanding and overcoming barriers to user testing healthcare guidelines

  Jones, M. (PI)

  1/02/23 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research-related funding

  • Practice Guideline 100%
  • Health Care Personnel 60%
  • Medication Error 40%
  • Healthcare System 20%

• Adopting MEA technology to study age-related neural network dysfunction in human stem cells

  Williams, R. (PI)

  NC3Rs

  16/01/23 → 14/02/25

  Project: Research council

  • Neural Network 100%
  • Stem Cell 100%
  • Embryonic Stem Cell 100%
  • Natural Product 100%

• Inter-centre variation in MSA testing

  Tansley, S. (PI), McHugh, N. (CoI) & Bowler, E. (Researcher)

  2/01/23 → 3/07/25

  Project: Other

• WAI-HYAENA: City living – assessing the welfare costs of urban living in spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) in Malawi

  Stone, E. (PI)

  1/01/23 → 1/12/26

  Project: Research-related funding

  • Hyena 100%
  • Crocuta crocuta 100%
  • Rabies 12%
  • Forest Fragmentation 12%
  • Teeth 12%

• Diverse and multi-layered bacterial genome defences in bacteria: linking molecular mechanisms to bacteria-MGE conflicts in single cells, populations, and communities

  Taylor, T. (PI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/01/23 → 31/12/27

  Project: Research council

  • Cell Population 100%
  • Bacterial Genome 100%
  • Immune System 100%
  • Antimicrobial Resistance 100%
  • Antibiotic Resistance 75%

• Understanding population level effects of artificial lighting on biodiversity

  Stone, E. (PI)

  Natural Environment Research Council

  1/01/23 → 31/12/25

  Project: Research council

  • Biodiversity 100%
  • Artificial Lighting 100%
  • Breeding Success 66%
  • Population Growth 33%
  • Long Term Survival 33%

• Structured probes of intrinsically disordered regions (SPIDR)

  Dodson, C. (PI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/11/22 → 31/10/27

  Project: Research council

  • Cell Cycle 100%
  • Cell Division 33%
  • Anticancer 33%
  • Biological Functions 33%

• A Combined and Automated High Throughput Parallel Peptide Synthesis Platform

  Mason, J. (PI), Kelsh, R. (CoI), Lovell, S. (CoI), Mehrban, N. (CoI), Mrsny, R. (CoI), Perry, T. (CoI), Van Den Elsen, J. (CoI), Dela Isla, J. (Researcher), Rodrigues, D. (Researcher) & Vennard, C. (Researcher)

  MRC

  31/10/22 → 30/10/25

  Project: Research council

  • Peptide Synthesis 100%
  • Biological Product 50%
  • Health Care Cost 50%
  • Protein-Protein Interaction 50%
  • High Throughput Screening 50%

• Co-ordinating the regulation of adjacent genes in the nuclear space.

  Nützmann, H.-W. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  15/10/22 → 14/10/25

  Project: Research council

• From selection on synonymous mutations to improved diagnostics via machine learning

  Hurst, L. (PI)

  The Evolution Education Trust

  1/10/22 → 30/09/26

  Project: UK charity

• TUNNELS - LIGHT: Impact of lighting on bats in tunnels

  Stone, E. (PI)

  1/10/22 → …

  Project: Other

  • Swarming 100%
  • Wildlife Habitat 100%
  • Safety Standard 100%
  • Artificial Lighting 100%
  • Wellbeing 100%