Awards from the third Centre for Future Health Funding Round
The Centre for Future Health Steering Group met on 27 April to consider twenty-four applications for funding. The standard of applications was very high and the total of £801,261 requested was almost twice the amount of funding available. Details of the individual projects are listed below. Congratulations to all recipients.
Further details about the majority of projects we have funded to date can be found on our 'Funded Projects' page.
| Project lead | Project title | Departments involved |
|---|---|---|
| Kamran Siddiqi | TB & Tobacco PLUS: A plan to integrate and scale up tobacco cessation within TB programmes in Bangladesh and Pakistan | Health Sciences, SPSW |
| Richard Ogden | Engaging with the Deaf Community: Raising awareness of the British Sign Language Translation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire | Language and Linguistic Science, Health Sciences |
| Beth Jefferies | A new approach to stroke aphasia rehabilitation | Psychology |
| Dean McMillan | Implementing Outcome Feedback Technology across NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Services | Health Sciences |
| Steven Johnson | Microelectronic biosensor for testing antibiotic resistance | Electronic Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology |
| Agnes Noy | Understanding DNA-processing molecular motors from Human Papillomavirus for designing anti-viral drugs | Physics, Chemistry |
| Nik Brown | Architectures for a post antibiotic age: the co-design of an exhibition | Sociology |
| Rowena Jacobs | Patient and Public Involvement in Research Network (PIRN@York) | CHE, SPSW, Health Sciences, CRD |
| Paul Kaye | Identification of the host receptor for a bacterial virulence protein | HYMS, Biology |
| Gareth Evans | Characterising the role of a novel gene in intellectual disability | Biology |
| William Brackenbury | Investigating the impact of sodium channel blockers on survival of cancer patients | Biology, Health Sciences |
| Betsy Pownall | How good are zebrafish models of human disease? A partnership to assess fish models of Parkinson’s Disease and Muscular Dystrophy. | Biology, Electronics |
| Richard Cookson | Have some NHS areas tackled health inequality more effectively than others, and if so how? | CHE, Health Sciences |