Previous C4T and P4T awards
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2025 Awards
Ellen Poliakoff
IMPOWER: Home-based digital training to manage impulse control behaviours in people with Parkinson’s
Maria Giovanna Lizio
WILD-Imaging: platform technology for stain free cancer diagnosis
Christos Tapeinos
MyExoFat: Harnessing patient-derived micro-fragmented adipose tissue exosomes as delivery vehicles for glioblastoma
Anthony Adamson and Polly Downton
A Rapid Pan-Bacteria Diagnostic Assay for use in Human Sterile Fluids
Emmanuel Pinteaux
Evaluating the effects of cryopreservation of primed mesenchymal stem cells on their regenerative and therapeutic potentials in stroke
Marianne Aznar
Improving life after radiotherapy for cancer patients: The Manchester Toolkit
Marloes Peters
TRIAD – Transforming critical care through Rapid Innovative Antibiotic next-generation Diagnostics
Lay summaries of these projects can be found in our Confidence for Translation (C4T) Awardees 2025/26 post.
2024 Awards
The following projects were funded through the Institutional UKRI MRC Impact Accelerator Account (IAA) (2022-2026).
Prof Adrian Parry-Jones
DIAGnosis using NOvel technology for Subtypes In Stroke (DIAGNOSIS study)
Prof Andrew King
Interleukin-1 in Vestibular Schwannoma (IL-VS): A biomarker development study
Dr Anja Wittkowski
The feasibility of translating an online psychosocial-parenting intervention into a perinatal mental health service for mothers of infants
Dr Ayodele Sasegbon
Cerebellar Metaplasticity in the Swallowing Motor System
Dr Francesco Galli
A new strategy to treat dilated cardiomyopathies with stem cells and biomaterials
Dr Hala Shokr
Dynamic retinal vascular analysis to unlock the pathophysiology and facilitate early detection of Fibromuscular Dysplasia
Dr Jose Ricardo Aguilar Cosme
Development of a capacitive electrical stimulation dental device
Dr Kate Allsopp
Enhancing patient benefit and translatability of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural therapy for people at ultra high risk for psychosis
Dr Ketan Parmar
Is the ‘Easy Eyecare Pathway’ autism-informed?
Prof. Paul Mativenga
Co-Culture of S. epidermidis and MG63 Cells on Laser Engineered Implant Surfaces
Dr Penny Lewis
Integration of Patient Safety Software into Pharmacy Systems
Dr Rebecca Bromley
Investigating multigenerational risk following in utero exposure to antiseizure medications
Lay summaries of these projects can be found on our Confidence for Translation (C4T) Awardees 2024 post.
2023 Awards
The following projects were funded through the Wellcome TPA:
Prof Dawn Edge
Implementing culturally-adapted family intervention (CAFI: DIGITAL) for Psychosis in Jamaica – a translational feasibility study
Prof Michael Brockhurst
Developing a phage therapy testing-tomanufacture platform for treating multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Manchester hospitals.
Dr Alexandra Clipson
Determining tissue-of-origin from cfDNA methylation profiles for diagnosis in Cancers of Unknown Primary.
Prof Caroline Jay & Dr Alaa Alahmadi
CG-X: Explainable automated ECG interpretation for Long QT Syndrome – validation with further data.
The following projects were funded through the Institutional UKRI MRC Impact Accelerator Account 2022-25
Dr Chris Worth*
YPO-CHEAT: prospective data-driven hypoglycaemia reduction in the rare disease of Congenital Hyperinsulinism.
*This project is co-funded by the NIHR Manchester BRC
Prof Brian Bigger
Biodistribution of Haematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy in MPSI and MPSII Mice.
Dr Alan McWilliam
Validation and deployment of on-line monitoring of body composition of patients being treated with radiotherapy for head and neck cancer.
Mr Adam Haque & Mr Jonathan Ghosh
Novel use of bedside arm ergometry CardioPulmonary Exercise Tests for the riskstratification of patients with chronic limbthreatening ischaemia: A Feasibility Trial.
Dr Jaleel Miyan
Raman Spectroscopy and machine learning: A rapid and accurate diagnosis for meningitis
Dr Robert Morgan
Developing a liquid biopsy to detect minimal residual disease in women diagnosed with highgrade serous ovarian cancer.
Prof Stuart Allan
Assessment of thrombolytic efficacy of caADAMTS13 in ex vivo human stroke thrombi.
2022 Awards
The following projects were funded through the Wellcome TPA:
Helen Hawley-Hague
Exploring the usability and acceptability of a virtual reality training programme to increase awareness of falls prevention and management
Madhvi Menon
Harnessing the nasal proteome for early detection of lung cancer
Tom Jowitt
Tools for stem cell biomarker identification
The following projects were funded through the Institutional UKRI MRC Impact Accelerator Account 2022-25:
Paul Kasher
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors as a neuroprotective strategy for intracerebral haemorrhage: a proof of principle in vivo study
Sarah Herrick
Novel hydrogel-based drug delivery strategies to prevent surgical adhesions
Steven Rogers
Developing AI based computational modelling software for the prediction of cardiovascular events in high-risk patients.
Robert Wykes
In vivo evaluation of the efficacy of a novel anti-epileptic drug and gene therapy strategy to suppress spontaneous seizures.
Steven Taylor
Re-purposing cabazitaxel to overcome drug pump-mediated taxane resistance in high-grade serious ovarian cancer
Shruti Garg
Optimizing non-invasive brain stimulation for working memory difficulties in Neurofibromatosis
2021 Awards
Richard Edmonson
Investigating the DNA damage response in ovarian cancer
9 months of P4T support
Stuart Ellison
At scale transduction of hCD34+ stem cells for Wolman disease biodistribution studies
9 months of P4T support
Lydia Tabernero
Developing novel medicines to tackle difficult-to treat mycobacterial infections
9 months of P4T support
Kathryn Else
Refining imidazopyridines: new anthelmintics targeting whipworm
9 months of P4T support
2020 Awards
Alan McWilliam
Remote cardiac monitoring in patients follow lung cancer radiotherapy
9 months P4T support
Claudia Lindner
An Automated Software System for Monitoring Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip in Children
9 months P4T support
Jeremy Derrick
Using novel virus-like particle engineering to generate a second generation COVID-19 vaccine
9 months P4T support
Josef Schlittenlacher
Hearing Health: Personalised hearing-aid fitting using suprathreshold tests
12 months P4T support
Rachel Watson
Systemic sclerosis-related calcinosis: developing safe, effective topical treatments to reduce pain, ulceration and disability (TOPiCAL) project
6 months P4T support
2018 Awards
Brian Bigger
Establish manufacturing scale-up of lentiviral transduction of peripheral blood derived CD34+ stem cells at GMP
9 months P4T support
Tony Day & Caroline Milner
Development of Link_TSG6 as a protein biological with disease-modifying and anti-inflammatory properties
9 months P4T support
Mike Bromley
Project title: A point of Care Diagnostic for Fungal Keratitis
6 months P4T support
Ellen Poliakoff
Action Imagery and Observation in Neurorehabilitation for Parkinson’s Disease (ACTION-PD)
6 months P4T support
William Newman
Development and implementation of a point-of-care pharmacogenetic test to avoid antibiotic-related hearing loss in neonates
12 months P4T support
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