Pump Priming Awards
The following projects have been successful in being given Pump Priming Awards of up to £25,000. We will provide further updates as the projects proceed and are delighted to support these exciting endeavours
2019
Dr Anvesha Singh
A novel MRI technique to quantify altered myocardial calcium handling in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis
Mr Mustafa Zakkar
The impact of haemodynamic changes on vein graft failure in patient undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery
Dr Marcin Wozniak
Micro-RNAs and fibrosis progression in asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis: towards an integrated imaging and biomarker precision medicine approach to risk stratification
2020
Dr Alastair Moss
MOleculaR PHenOtyping of LOw attenuation non-calcified/hiGh-risk plaque studY (18F-MORPHOLOGY)
Dr Marinos Koulouroudias
Comprehensive phenotyping of iron status in elucidating the metabolic landscape of frailty
Dr Radoslaw Debiec
Familial genetic screening for bicuspid aortic valve disease
2021
Dr Gavin Morris
Understanding the contribution of SVEP1 in cardiovascular diseases
Dr Emer Brady
REmiSsion of Type 2 diabetes and cardiOvasculaR hEalth; The RESTORE study
2022
Dr Lucy Beishon
Vascular mEchanismS in, dePression, dementiA, and deliRum: The VESPAR project
Dr Matthew Graham-Brown
Mechanisms of exercise-induced cardiovascular remodelling in renal transplant recipients: the roles of microRNAs in muscle-cardiac crosstalk
Dr Susil Pallikadavath
AFLETES MRI – Atrial Fibrillation and the risk of stroke in veteran athLETES: a pilot cardiac and cerebral magnetic resonance imaging study
Ms Georgia Layton
Can sex differences in outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafts be related to differences in the vein's molecular make-up
Dr Gaurav Gulsin
Retinal microvasculature as a window into detecting stage B heart failure in Type 2 diabetes
Dr Liam Musto
Identifying the role of air pollution in the development and progression of abdominal aortic aneurysm
2023
Dr Xin Li
LifeMap-VR Utilising virtual reality for enhanced cardiac stress testing and risk stratification for sudden cardiac death
Dr Ranjit Arnold
Characterising cardiac involvement in severe sepsis using non-invasive imaging - a pilot feasibility study
Dr David McVey
A Novel 3-D Perfusion Culture and Low Cost RNA-Sequencing Approach to Identify Genetic Associations
2024
Dr Jatinderpal Sandhu
Agnostic proteomics for pathways of residual risk in optimised therapy of heart failure to allow precision prognostication and biotarget identification
Dr Elina Akalestou
The Role of SGLT2 beyond renal glucose reabsorption
Dr David Adlam
Pilot study of using pedigree gene sequencing to understand how rare and common variants in SCAD patients segregate in families and how this impacts on the manifestation of other related conditions in family members
Dr Shameem Ladak
A study of the effects of Age, High Fat Diet, Multimorbidity, and HDAC inhibition on the epigenetic regulation of biological ageing in human myocardium
Dr David McVey
Systems genetics approaches to understand the role of endothelial behaviour in cardiovascular disease