Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund Awards 

Fellowship extensions

Dr Andrea Cortese (UCL Institute of Neurology): Identification of novel genetic causes of sensory neuropathy (a common group of peripheral nervous system diseases).

Dr Mehmet Fisek (UCL Division of Medicine): Dendritic integration and sensory processing across extended neural networks in rodent visual cortical areas.

Dr Joseph Hayes (UCL Division of Biosciences): Personalising the pharmacological treatment of bipolar disorder.

Dr Shema Tariq (Institute for Global Health): The PRIME Study (Positive Transitions Through the Menopause): the impact of the menopause transition on the health and well-being of women living with HIV.

Establishing new research groups/ programmes

Dr Aida Andres Moran (UCL Division of Biosciences): Genetic local adaptations and their influence in human phenotypes to understand health disparities across human populations.

Dr Lisa Cabrita (UCL Division of Biosciences): Developing molecular mechanisms of protein misfolding during biosynthesis on the ribosome.

Dr David Redding (UCL Division of Biosciences): Implementing Planetary Health:  Using system dynamic models to understand the impact of environmental change on zoonotic health burden in Africa.

Dr Maria Secrier (UCL Division of Biosciences): Genetic aberrations and immune activity patterns underlying metastatic formation in solid cancers.

Dr Seirian Sumner (UCL Division of Biosciences): The role of behavioural plasticity on population viability in changing environments.

Professor Chris Thompson (UCL Division of Biosciences): Understanding how gene expression heterogeneity results in robust cell fate choice during embryonic development.

Laura Cream (UCL Public Engagement) and Simon Denegri (NIHR National Director for Patients and the Public in Research, and Chair, INVOLVE): Developing an integrated and innovative approach to public involvement and engagement to help maximise SLMS Research Impact.

Professor Nicholas Greene (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) and Dr Filipe Cabriero (UCL Structural & Molecular Biology): Exploring the concept that nutrient-gene and nutrient-microbiome-host interactions in genetically tractable E. coli and E. coli/C. elegans model systems can inform analysis of conserved equivalent metabolic pathways in mammalian disease models.

Dr Jane Kinghorn (UCL Office of the Vice-Provost (Health)): Continued development of UCL's Drug Discovery Group (DDG) to progress UCLs novel targets and biology and UCL's Therapeutic Innovation Network (TIN) to establish sister TINs to the cell, gene & regenerative medicine TIN in biologicals and small-molecule drug discovery.

Dr Samuel Solomon (UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences) and Dr Jack Wells (UCL Division of Medicine): Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of visual pathways in the mouse brain to develop a model system for generic brain systems including neurodevelopmental plasticity and neurodegeneration.

Neuroscience

Dr Arantza Barrios (UCL Research Department of Cell & Developmental Biology): Understanding the mechanisms of neural circuit and behavioural plasticity through high-resolution in vivo 4D imaging and neuronal activity in freely moving animals.

Professor Gillian Bates (UCL Institute of Neurology): Establishing a Huntingdon's Disease Research Centre, within the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, for research into neurodegenerative disease.

Professor Robin Ketteler (Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (MRC LMCB) at UCL): Broadening the 'bioinformatics hub' to enhance image and data analysis capabilities in cell biology research across UCL.

Dr David Lyons (UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL Division of Medicine): Using zebrafish to understand the neuron-glial interactions in neural circuit function

Dr Ivan Pavlov (UCL Institute of Neurology): Understanding epilepsy and the regulation of network behaviour in the brain that is also relevant to neurodegenerative disease and mental health research.

Professor Daniel Raleigh (UCL Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UCL Division of Biosciences): Interdisciplinary translational research into amyloid diseases and protein biophysics to understand different diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntingdon's and Type 2 diabetes.

Dr Jonathan Rohrer (UCL Institute of Neurology): Development of neuroimaging analysis capability to support the improvement and validation of biomarkers required to evaluate treatment.

Professor Trevor Smart (Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL Division of Biosciences): Support for multidisciplinary translational research collaborations in neuroscience between UCL and the University of Zurich.

Underpinning technology platforms/ Informatics

Dr Richard Dobson (UCL Institute of Health Informatics, Farr Institute): Development and deployment of an informatics platform that will open up diverse electronic health records for research and audit, leading towards decision support and trials in routine practice.

Professor Henry Houlden (UCL Institute of Neurology): Development of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) informatics and long term storage of genome data to support the diagnosis of rare diseases.

Professor Henry Houlden (UCL Institute of Neurology): Support for the development of genome sequencing as part of the Neurology Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership (Neuro-GeCIP) for the analysis of rare disease genomes to inform research and diagnostics.

Professor Nicholas Luscombe (UCL Division of Biosciences): Cross-faculty collaborative project for the application of advanced computational approaches for data analytics of electronic health records

Professor Richard Mott (UCL Division of Biosciences): Analysis of the joint impacts of epigenetics and structural variation on complex traits in a range of organisms.

Dr Richard Pearson (UCL Division of Biosciences): Support for strategic partnerships in computational biology research and investment into the Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research which specialises in computational intensive research relevant to human health.

Underpinning technology platforms/ Imaging

Dr Gareth Barnes (UCL Institute of Neurology): Investment in a magnetoencephalography (MEG) system, a non-invasive brain imaging methodology, to inform neurobiological research and clinical applications for pre-surgical planning.

Dr Adrian Issacs (UCL Institute of Neurology): Contribution towards a state-of-the-art multi-user longitudinal imaging system to expedite the development of new therapeutic targets through phenotypic screening.

Investing in research equipment and the research environment

Dr Isaac Bianco, UCL Division of Biosciences: Contribution towards the cost of purchasing a Selective Plane Illumination Microscope (SPIM) to enable functional imaging of zebra fish.

Dr Filipe Cabreiro, UCL Division of Biosciences: Key equipment to support a newly recruited early career scientists investigating microbiota action and metabolism.

Dr Alan Cheung, UCL Division of Biosciences: Funds for a large incubator dedicated to yeast culture to support research into mechanisms of transcriptional activation in eukaryotes.

Professor Kate Jeffrey, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Contribution towards microscopy equipment for the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience.

Dr Tara Keck, UCL Division of Biosciences: Funds to equip a new surgical and histology suite that will be optimized for in vivo imaging and electrophysiology experiments.

Dr Jason Mercer, UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology: Contribution towards equipment required to set-up a level 2 virus system lab.

Dr Christopher Stefan, UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology: Set-up costs for a new high-throughput yeast cell biology laboratory that will combine functional genomics with high-content quantitative imaging assays.

Dr Stefan Trapp, UCL Division of Biosciences: Equipment to support research into autonomic neuroscience.

Dr Rifat Hamoudi, UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science: Equipment to enable the sequencing of a unique tissue collection of prostate bladder and oesophagus tissue.

Professor Robin Ali, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology: Contribution towards the establishment of a flow cytometry facility.

Professor Francis Brodsky, UCL Division of Biosciences: Start-up funds for the provision of equipment for a new senior recruit specialising in the biochemical properties of clathrin and its role in the development of Type 2 Diabetes.

Professor John Hardy, UCL Institute of Neurology: Contribution towards equipment for microdissection.

Professor Andres Ramos, UCL Division of Medicine: Contribution towards equipment to enable the analysis of protein-RNA macromolecular complexes.

Professor Hans Stauss, UCL Division of Infection and Immunity: Contribution towards a state of the art Nikon Ti-E inverted microscope fitted with a confocal system for the Institute of Immunity and Transplantation.

Promoting interdisciplinary research and research collaborations

Bloomsbury Research Institute, UCL Division of Infection and Immunity: Coordination and project support for the Bloomsbury Research Institute.

Africa Centre Collaborations fund: Funding to support a programme to develop new research collaborations.

Targeted investment in excellent researchers

Dr Catia Andreassi, UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology: Bridging funding to support a post-doctoral RA working on understanding the role of mRNA transport and local translation in axons of developing neurons.

Dr Maria Arantzazu Barrios Lafuente, UCL Division of Biosciences: Bridging funds for an intermediate career scientist working with c.elegans in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.

Dr Daniel Bendor, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Contribution towards electrophysiology equipment for a new Investigator recruited from MIT to work on neural circuits in the auditory cortex.

Professor Frances Brodsky, UCL Division of Biosciences: Start-up funds for the provision of postdoctoral RA salaries for a new senior recruit specialising in the biochemical properties of clathrin and its role in the development of Type 2 Diabetes.

Dr Steven Buckingham, UCL Division of Medicine: Bridging funding for a postdoctoral RA pending PI grant applications. His research focuses on ion channel physiology and pharmacology.

Dr Andre Dallmann, UCL Division of Biosciences: Interim support for the salary of a post-doctoral RA who has recently joined UCL as part of a larger new laboratory.

Dr Robertus de Bruin, UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology: Bridging salary for a postdoctoral RA conducting research on transcriptional regulation in the cell-cycle.

Dr Nigel Field, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care: Salary contribution for a clinical lecturer to bridge between major project funding regarding public health and birth cohorts.

Dr Kirsty Foote, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science: Bridging funding for an early career researcher exploring calcium signalling and its association with reperfusion of the heart after ischemia.

Professor Henry Houlden, UCL Institute of Neurology: Contribution between the development of an iPS cell differentiation laboratory at UCL Institute of Neurology.

Dr Patricia Hunter, UCL Institute of Child Health: Bridging funding for an early career scientist investigating premature births and maternal immunity.

Dr Dagan Jenkins, UCL Institute of Child Health: Start up funds for a new appointment in the Cilia Disorders Lab.

Dr James Jepson, UCL Institute of Neurology: Start up costs for equipment for a new drosophila lab at the Institute of Neurology.

Dr Alexander Kraskov, UCL Institute of Neurology: Bridging funding for a principal investigator (movement disorders), while applications are under consideration by funders.

Dr Lorenza Magno, UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research: Bridging funding for a postdoctoral RA while additional funds are sought to support research on cholinergic and glutamatergic circuits.

Dr Adrian Martineau, UCL Division of Infection and Immunity: Salary support for post-doctoral RA establish RNA sequencing in a new lab.

Dr Christina Moutsiana, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Bridging funding to cover the salary of one post-doctoral RA.

Dr Chloe Park, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science: Bridging funding for a mid-career PI returning from maternity leave to allow her to prepare planned fellowship applications concerning the development of novel tools to study cardiovascular structure and function.

Dr Andrew Plumb, UCL Division of Medicine: Salary support for an outstanding, newly recruited, clinical academic who will develop his own research programmes in bowel cancer screening to enable future grant applications.

Dr Daniah Trabzuni, UCL Institute of Neurology: Bridging salary for a post-doctoral RA focussing on the link between LRRK2 gene expression and Parkinson's disease.

Dr Milica Vukmanovic-Stejic, UCL Division of Infection and Immunity: Bridging salary for a intermediate career scientist investigating immunity in skin. This salary will support the academic as awaits the outcome of submitted grant applications.

Dr Wendy Xia, UCL Eastman Dental Institute: Bridging salary provided for an Early Career researcher developing new dental materials and seeking additional funds for CE marking already patented materials.

Dr Hiro Yamano, UCL Cancer Institute: Bridging funds for a principal investigator seeking external grant funding to continue his research into the ubiquitin-proteasome System and its role in the cell cycle.

Dr Massimiliano Cerletti, UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science: Materials and reagents to support a new research programme investigating cell-surface markers that identify myogenic cells within human skeletal muscle.

Dr Kate Ricketts, UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science: Grant to support a new collaboration between UCL and CERN to access radiobiological and proton therapy expertise and to grow this area of research within UCL.

Public engagement and patient/public involvement

Dr Steve Cross, UCL Public Engagement Unit: Funding to support a programme of workshops and projects called Train and Engage which has supported approximately thirty PhD students and Post Docs develop public engagement skills.

Investing in research equipment and the research environment

Dr Patricia Adank, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Start up costs including laboratory equipment for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Electromyography investigations into speech perception and production.

Dr Kristine Arnvig, UCL Division of Biosciences: Specialist equipment for Mycobacterium tuberculosis work to support a new lecturer.

Dr Maria Barruis Lafuente, UCL Division of Biosciences: Bridging funds for an intermediate career scientist working with c.elegans in the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology.

Dr Sebastian Brandner, UCL Institute of Neurology: Regeneration and consolidation of electron microscope facility at the UCL Institute of Neurology.

Dr Antonia Hamilton, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Equipment for a newly recruited early career scientist. Specifically, funds were provided for a motion capture camera for use alongside the multiuser UCL BUCNI MRI scanner.

Professor Michael Hausser, UCL Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research: Support for a laser for an in vivo two-photon microscope.

Professor David Lomas, UCL Division of Medicine: Relocation costs and new set-up and refurbishment funding to establish the laboratory of Dean of Medical Sciences for research into common and rare respiratory, liver and neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr Mark Lythcoe, UCL Division of Medicine: Contribution towards the costs of an animal MRI / PET /CT scanner within a newly established animal imaging facility.

Professor David Sansom, UCL Division of Infection and Immunity: Start up funding for a senior academic, including small equipment costs and set-up costs for research in transplant immunity.

Professor Giampietro Schiavo, UCL Institute of Neurology: Contribution towards a state-of-the-art multiphoton confocal laser scanning microscope and postdoctoral RA's salaries.

Professor Ralf Stanewsky, UCL Division of Biosciences: Salary contribution for a technician to support the Drosophila research facility.

Dr Mirko Trajkovski, UCL Division of Biosciences: Structural and Molecular Biology equipment for a new lab focussing on obesity and diabetes research.

Excellence fellowships

Dr Philip Dannhause, UCL Division of Biosciences

Dr Andrew Macaskill, UCL Division of Biosciences

Dr Lele Rangaka, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care

Dr Rimona Weil, UCL Institute of Neurology

Dr Timothy Witney, UCL Division of Medicine

Promoting interdisciplinary research and research collaborations

Professor Trevor Smart, UCL Division of Biosciences: Seed funding to enable research collaborations with Zurich/ETH Neuroscience.

Public engagement and patient/public involvement

Dr Paul Ashley, UCL Eastman Dental Institute: Involving patients and public in the development of a new dental material for children.

Dr Steve Cross, UCL Public Engagement Unit: Funding to support a programme of workshops and projects called Train and Engage which has supported approximately thirty PhD students and Post Docs develop public engagement skills.

Dr Adele Fielding, UCL Cancer Institute: Communicating in real time with patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Dr Natalie Leow, UCL Eastman Dental Institute: Involving patients and the public in focus groups for the benefit of Periodontal Clinical Research.

Dr Laura McGowan, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care: Facilitating a novel method of PPI in obesity research: improving past successes.

Dr Angela McNelly, UCL Division of Medicine: Patient/Carer Feedback on use of ambulatory activity monitoring equipment.

Professor Ian Needleman, UCL Eastman Dental Institute: Funding to support the development of a programme of Public and Patient Involvement for Oral Health.

Dr Mine Orlu, UCL School of Pharmacy: Establishing a New Generation Older People Advisory Group for Effective Development in Biomedicine (ENGAGE).

Professor Vincent Walsh, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Funds were provided to support a public engagement event at the British Library exploring the science of sleep from both scientific and artistic performance perspectives.

Ms Rosemary Yu, UCL SLMS: funding to establish and support public engagement panels for BRC Programmes imputting into strategy and reviewing study proposals.

Targeted investment in excellent researchers

Dr Paula Alexandre, UCL Institute of Child Health: Laboratory start-up funds to support the appointment of an early career research leader within the Birth Defects Research Centre.

Dr Nazif Alic, UCL Division of Biosciences: Start-up funds for consumables for a new Investigator (specifically, funds were provided to maintain Drosophila melanogaster lines and to optimize a new RNA isolation technique).

Dr Folkert Asselbergs, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science: Salary supplement for a specialist system biologist (researcher and teacher) for e-learning course.

Dr Gerold Baier, UCL Division of Biosciences: Bridging funds to cover a mid-level Investigator's salary as to establish an independent group leader in developmental biology.

Dr Francesca Cacucci, UCL Division of Biosciences: Salary supplement to retain a talented mid-career academic, working in memory networks and spatial cognition.

Professor Duncan Craig, UCL School of Pharmacy: Start up funds for the incoming Director of the School of Pharmacy to fund four new post-doctoral positions to support research into novel drug delivery systems.

Dr Mark JJ Edwards, UCL Institute of Neurology: Bridging funds for a clinical academic with a specialist interest in movement disorders.

Professor Paul Fish, UCL School of Pharmacy: Start up funds for the new Professor of Medicinal Chemistry for laboratory set-up costs and post-doctoral support.

Dr Aikaterini Fotopoulou, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Contribution to laboratory set up costs (consumables and small equipment costs) to support a newly recruited mid-career neuroscientists with ERC funding.

Dr Aikaterini Fotopoulou, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Contribution to a postdoctoral RA salary to support a newly recruited mid-career neuroscientists with ERC funding.

Dr Antonia Hamilton, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Supplementary MRI access fees (due to a change of host institution) for a new recruit studying human non-verbal social interaction.

Dr Thomas Hawkins, UCL Division of Biosciences: Bridging funds for a scientist investigating the developmental neuroanatomy of the fish brain.

Dr Alex Jones, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science: Salary support for an early career clinical scientist studying hypertension and cardiovascular risk in the young.

Professor Georgina Mace, UCL Division of Biosciences: Salary support for a new data management technician to support the development and digitisation of datasets and databases for the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research.

Dr Vitor Pinheiro, UCL Division of Biosciences: Laboratory set up costs for a newly appointed synthetic biologist.

Professor David Sansom, UCL Division of Infection and Immunity: Start up funding for a senior academic, including a contribution to a technician's salary and postdoctoral RA's salary for research in transplant immunity.

Professor Anne Schilder, UCL Ear Institute: Contribution towards the infrastructure and administration costs of a clinical ENT trials programme, developed following the strategic recruitment of a senior ENT Clinical specialist.

Professor Ralf Stanewsky, UCL Division of Biosciences: Funding to support the a Drosophila facility to investigate neurobiology.

Professor Lucy Walker, UCL Division of Infection and Immunity: A contribution towards equipment to support research into the immune regulation of diabetes (start up funds).

Translation awards and therapeutic innovation awards

Dr Kenth Gustafsson, UCL Institute of Child Health: Delivery of tumour-associated antigens to gamma delta T-cells by encapsulation in electrosprayed nanoparticles for further presentation to naïve cytotoxic T-cells.

Professor Jennifer Morgan, UCL Institute of Child Health: Pharmacological inhibition of programmed necrosis in dystrophic mouse skeletal muscle.

Professor Chris O'Callaghan, UCL Institute of Child Health: Developing an assay to screen small molecule inhibitors of the RSV N protein - P protein interaction for the treatment of RSV bronchiolitis.

Professor Martin Pule, UCL Cancer Institute: EGFRvIII mediated immunotherapy of high-grade glioma.

Dr Christopher Stefan, Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (MRC LMCB) at UCL: Targeting Protein Misfolding and ER Stress in Neurodegenerative Disease.

Professor Stephen Neidle, UCL School of Pharmacy: A novel small molecule approach to the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Dr David Miller, UCL Office of the Vice-Provost (Health): Capability building, especially in medicinal chemistry, Seed funding to support projects and infrastructure support for building applications in the Translational Research Office. 

Investing in research equipment and the research environment

Professor David Becker, UCL Division of Biosciences: Matched funding for confocal and multiphoton microscopy equipment.

Professor Peter Fonagy, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Equipment and technology for a Community Cardiovascular Research Platform (with matching funds from the Mental Health Research Network) and includes vicorder technology for functional vascular diagnostics. The technology will advance our knowledge of the mechanisms linking depression and cardiovascular disease.

Excellence fellowships

Dr Caswell Barry, UCL Division of Biosciences

Dr Alan Cheug, UCL Division of Biosciences

Dr Yanlan Mao, UCL Division of Biosciences

Dr Paola Bonfanti, UCL Institute of Child Health

Dr Isaac Bianco, UCL Division of Biosciences

Public engagement and patient/public involvement

Dr Steve Cross, UCL Public Engagement Unit: Funding to support a programme of workshops and projects called Train and Engage which has supported approximately thirty PhD students and Post Docs develop public engagement skills.

Targeted investment in excellent researchers

Professor Christopher Barnes, UCL Division of Biosciences: Computational support for a newly recruited early career systems biologist working in genomics and proteomics.

Professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Funds were provided to support the start-up costs of a new recruit working in business and economic psychology. These funds allowed him to accumulate the background information & data for future grant applications.

Dr Rudd Custers, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Equipment to support research into unconscious psychological processes.

Professor Kenneth Harris, UCL Division of Biosciences: High-end IT infrastructure to support a newly recruited computational neuroscientist.

Professor Charles Hulme, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Start up funds to establish a new research group in developmental cognitive disorders at UCL.

Dr John Ioannou, UCL Division of Medicine: Bridging funding for a mid-career scientist finishing a funded project and moving onto a Senior Lecturer position, which will be established in a new academic National Adolescent Rheumatology Centre.

Dr Dagan Jenkins, UCL Institute of Child Health: Bridging funding for a mid-career scientist researching into congenital heart defects associated with Carpenter's Syndrome.

Professor Kate Jones, UCL Division of Biosciences: New computing infrastructure, including servers, storage and high-end computers for a newly appointed Chair in Biodiversity and Ecology.

Professor Bradley Love, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Salary support for postdoctoral staff to apply computational methods for analysing brain imaging data to support Professor Bradley Love's newly established group.

Dr Alan Lowe, UCL Division of Biosciences: Funds for a bespoke imaging system to allow measurement of single protein cargos during transport through the nuclear pore.

Professor Nicholas Luscombe, UCL Division of Biosciences: Salary support for two postdoctoral researchers in the lab of a newly appointed senior academic who investigates bacterial encoded histone modifying enzymes.

Professor Judith Mank, UCL Division of Biosciences: To establish a new avian research facility with appropriate housing for birds.

Dr Evelyne Mercure, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience: Salary bridging funding for an early career researcher who investigates language representation in the brain of hearing infants with deaf parents.

Dr David Michod, UCL Institute of Child Health: Laboratory set-up costs for a newly recruited junior group leader in infectious disease research.

Ms Caroline Moore, UCL Department of Surgery: Bridging salary support for a talented surgeon, with both clinical practice and research into technology transfer in surgery.

Professor Massimo Pinzani, UCL Division of Medicine: A contribution towards the refurbishment of laboratory space for a new senior level recruit in hepatology and his research team (Medical School at the Royal Free Campus).

Dr Helen Plun-Favreau, UCL Institute of Neurology: Bridging funding for the salary of a mid-career academic specialising in Parkinson's disease research.

Professor James Rothman, UCL Institute of Neurology: To establish a satellite laboratory at the UCL Institute of Neurology as part of the Yale-UCL initiative, focussing on research into the molecular basis of vesicle fusion.

Dr Samuel Solomon, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Start-up funds for electrophysiological equipment to enable a newly recruited early career scientist to establish a research programme in behavioural neuroscience at UCL.

Dr Claire Thorne, UCL Institute of Child Health: Laboratory set-up costs for a newly recruited junior group leader researching the epigenetics of childhood cancers.

Professor Rosemary Varley, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences: Laboratory set-up costs for a new academic investigating rehabilitation of acquired disorders of speech, language and communication.

Dr Christopher Williams, UCL Institute of Child Health: Funds were provided as a contribution to bridging funds to enable a recently recruited PI to establish a research group.

Professor Henrik Zetterberg, UCL Institute of Neurology: Salary contribution to a part-time senior academic with significant expertise in biomarker development.

Translational awards and the therapeutic innovation fund

Professor Margaret Ashcroft, UCL Division of Medicine: Identification and mechanistic evaluation of HIF pathway inhibitors.

Professor Bobby Gaspar, UCL Institute of Child Health: Development of a lentiviral gene therapy vector for treatment of haemphagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) associated with perforin deficiency.

Professor Gloria Astrid Limb, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology: Optimization of cellular scaffolds to replace retinal ganglion cells using Müller stem cells'.

Professor Rachel McKendry, London Centre for Nanotechnology: Early-stage development of novel Glycopeptides against multidrug-resistant superbug infections.

Professor Francesco Muntoni, UCL Institute of Child Health: To develop antisense oligonucleotide therapy for spinal muscular atrophy.

Professor Gregory Szabadkai, UCL Division of Biosciences: Identification of a membrane permeable inhibitor of the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter.

Dr David Miller, UCL Office of the Vice-Provost (Health): Capability building, especially in medicinal chemistry. Seed funding to support projects and infrastructure support for building applications in the Translational Research Office.