Genetic Epidemiology

Grants and awards

Understanding and solving mucus dysregulation in severe asthma for better clinical outcomes 

  • Grant Holder: Sayers I, Fawcett K, Yakubov G, Adcock I, Brightling C, Thornton D
  • Funding Body: Co-I, Medical Research Council
  • Award: £3,080,895
  • Duration: April 2025 - March 2030

Genetics Of Rare Polygenic Interstitial Lung Disease

  • Grant Holder: Wain LV, Leavy OC
  • Funding Body: Medical Rearch Council
  • Award: £656,000
  • Duration: January 2025 - January 2028

NIHR Senior Investigator Award

  • Grant Holder: Tobin MD
  • Funding Body: NIHR
  • Award: £80,000 second term; £160,000 total since 2000
  • Duration: April 2024 - March 2028

British Heart Foundation Research Excellence Award (RE/24/130031)

  • Grant Holder: Ng A et al
  • Funding Body: British Heart Foundation
  • Award: £3,000,000
  • Duration: October 2024 - September 2029

Efficient, scalable phenome-wide association studies in drug development

  • Grant Holder: Tobin MD, Packer R, John C, Wain LV, Guyatt A
  • Funding Body: Orion Pharma
  • Award: £85,465.40; £1,210,000 since 2019
  • Duration: April 2024 - March 2026

A double blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial of Tocilizumab in adults with persistent symptoms and raised C-reactive protein at least six months after a hospital admission with COVID-19 

  • Grant Holder: Evans R, Brightling CE, Wain LV
  • Funding Body: F.Hoffmann-La Roche (Genentech)
  • Award: £2,700,000
  • Duration: March 2023 - February 2025

Advanced Interdisciplinary Models (AIM) Doctoral Training Partnership

  • Grant Holder: Tennant D, Wain LV, Robinson R
  • Funding Body: Medical Research Council
  • Award: £4,370,000
  • Duration: October 2022 - September 2030

Applying a multidisciplinary approach to defining molecular pathways in lung function impairment

  • Grant Holder: Tobin MD, Wain LV, Guyatt A, Sayers I, Hall I, Rawlins E
  • Funding Body: Wellcome Trust
  • Award: £8,748,933
  • Duration: November 2022 - October 2030

Leicester Biomedical Research Centre

  • Funding Body: NIHR
  • Award: £26,100,000
  • Duration: 2022 - 2027

Leicester Biomedical Research Centre 

  • Grant Holder: Davies M et al
  • Funding Body: NIHR
  • Award: ~£24,000,000
  • Duration: December 2022 - November 2027

The UK Interstitial Lung Disease Long-COVID19 study (UKILD Long COVID): understanding the burden of Interstitial Lung Disease in Long COVID

  • Grant Holder: Jenkins RG, Wain LV et al
  • Funding Body: UKRI
  • Award: £1,900,000 (£70,000 to Leicester)
  • Duration: February 2021 - March 2023

DEfining MechanIsms Shared across mulTI-organ FIbrosis to prevent the development of long-term multi-morbidity (DEMISTIFI) 

  • Grant Holder: Jenkins RG, Wain LV et al
  • Funding Body: Medical Research Council, NIHR
  • Award: £2,800,000
  • Duration: November 2021 - October 2025

Defining Endotypes of Pulmonary Fibrosis by Understanding the Functional Consequences of Known, and Novel, Genetic Associations with Disease

  • Grant Holder: Jenkins RG, Wain LV et al
  • Funding Body: Medical Research Council
  • Award: £2,000,000
  • Duration: June 2021 - May 2026

Using genetic associations to account for selection bias in epidemiology 

  • Grant Holder: Dudbridge F, Sheehan NA, Wain LV, Patel RS
  • Funding Body: PI, Medical Research Council
  • Award: £489,217
  • Duration: September 2020 - August 2023

Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Genomics

  • Grant Holder: Tobin MD, Wain LV, Dudbridge F, Armstrong N, Elliott E
  • Funding Body: Wellcome 4-year PhD Programme in Science, Wellcome Trust
  • Award: £5,388,290
  • Duration: October 2020 - September 2028

UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration for COVID-19 research (EXCEED Study)

  • Grant Holder: Tobin MD
  • Funding Body: Medical Research Council
  • Award: £143,691
  • Duration: October 2020 - May 2025

Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 study: a national consortium to understand and improve long-term health outcomes (PHOSP-COVID Study)

  • Grant Holder: Brightling CE, Wain LV, Evans R et al
  • Funding Body: UKRI, DHSC
  • Award: £8,400,000
  • Duration: July 2020 - March 2023

Personalised Space Technology Exercise Platform (P-STEP)

  • Grant Holder: Ng GA et al
  • Funding Body: Space Agency
  • Award: £388,000 January 2025 (£2,380,000 since 2021)

Leicestershire County Council, Health Determinants Research Collaboration; driving evidence-based decision making

  • Grant Holder: Sandys M et al
  • Funding Body: NIHR
  • Award: £5,000,000

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