Centre for Future Health makes second set of funding awards
The Centre for Future Health Steering Group met on 31 October (2017) to consider thirty-four applications for funding. The total of £1,225,162 requested was more than twice the amount of funding available. Twenty awards were made totalling £712,645. Details of the individual projects are listed below. Congratulations to all recipients. The next funding round will be held in the spring.
| Project lead | Project title | Departments involved |
|---|---|---|
| Lina Gega | DIG4IT: Digital Intervention Games for Implementing Therapy with Children and Young People Experiencing Common Emotional and Behavioural Problems | Health Sciences, Computer Science |
| Dean McMillan | University of York Student Wellbeing Cohort | Health Sciences, Education |
| David Torgerson | Developing a training intervention for staff to improve participant recruitment into randomised controlled trials | Health Sciences |
| David Smith | Drug Delivery For Neurodegenerative Diseases using Self-Assembled Gels (NEURO-GELS) | Chemistry |
| Martin Fascione | Tag-Track-Capture: a novel strategy for identifying lipoteichoic acid-mediated interactions at the cell surface using a bioorthogonally re-engineered natural product | Chemistry, Biology |
| Anne-Kathrin Duhme-Klair | Artificial enzymes for selective antibiotic activation | Chemistry |
| James Hewitson | Development of a humanised mouse model of schistosomiasis | Biology |
| Tony Morland | Building a Partnership for Cognitive Neuroscience between the University of York and Maastricht University | Psychology |
| Mark Hymers | Evaluating Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as a method for elucidating auditory function in health and disease | Psychology |
| David Halliday | Towards a framework for real time detection of motoneuronal oscillations for therapeutic interventions | Electronics |
| Barry Wright | microRNA markers in autism spectrum disorders | HYMS, Biology |
| Jane Suter | A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of extending working hours in a large Mental Health Trust: assessin employee and organisational outcomes | York Management School, CHE |
| Jeremy Mottram | Bromodomain inhibitors as anti-leishmanial agents | Biology, Chemistry |
| Sean Sweeney | Defining function of a receptor mediating protection from Frontotemporal Dementia-Motorneuron disease driven neurodegeneration: repurposing an FDA approved therapy |
Biology, Chemistry |
| Dimitris Lagos | A strategic partnership between the University of York and the Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University London | Biology |
| James Chong | Impact of antibiotic administration route on the diversity and metabolism of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) microbiome of patients undergoing treatment for serious bacterial infections: a feasibility study | Biology |
| Allison Green | Development of humanized mice as a model system for human thymic disorders linked to autoimmunity | HYMS, Biology |
| Daniel Ungar | Mechanistic investigation of congenital glycosylation disorders | Biology |
| Rachel Churchill | Cochrane Global Mental Health: Identifying gaps and prioritising knowledge mobilisation for people in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) | Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Health Sciences |
| Rachel Churchill | Mental Health First Aid: An intervention for improving mental health? | Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Health Sciences |