The Queens Medical Research Institute

Projects

Projects per year 1996 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2029

• 17 Not started
• 69 Active
• 1176 Finished

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  Pesticides, power and policy - developing a research agenda for studying the pesticide industry as a commercial determinants of health

  Scholin, L., Eddleston, M., Collin, J., Pearson, M., Maani, N., Petticrew, M. & Knipe, D. W.

  1/09/23 → 1/10/24

  Project: Research

• 7T MRI to determine mechanisms of fatigue in multiple sclerosis

  York, B., Waldman, A., Porter, D., MacDougall, N., Fullerton, N., Meijboom, R. & Chandran, S.

  20/07/23 → 20/01/24

  Project: Research

  • Multiple Sclerosis 100%
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging 100%
  • Structure (Composition) 33%
  • Phase Composition 33%
  • Diseases 16%

• Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on incidence of myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke, by mental illness status

  Jackson, C., Cavers, D., Fleetwood, K. & Mercer, S.

  19/06/23 → 30/04/24

  Project: Research

• Energy poverty: How does the home influence the risk, recovery, and intergenerational recurrence of childhood respiratory infections?

  Swann, O., Whyte, M., Jackson, A., Henderson, N., Gilbert, N. & Walmsley, S.

  1/06/23 → 31/05/24

  Project: Research

• Towards A Framework For Risk Assessment Supporting Data Provenance And Free-text: Protoyping Semi-automated Tools For Trusted Research Environments (TREs)

  Casey, A. & Mills, N.

  1/02/23 → 31/10/23

  Project: Research

  • Automated Tool 100%
  • Research Environment 100%
  • Data Provenance 100%
  • Provider Data 100%
  • Monitoring Data 50%

• Brain Imaging in Delirium Study

  Clancy, U.

  1/12/22 → 6/12/23

  Project: Research

  • Delirium 100%
  • Tolerability 50%

• Targeting Therapies: Exploring the Cultural and Normative Dimensions of 'Targeted' Approaches to Biomedicine and Public Health

  Pickersgill, M. & Geiger, S.

  1/12/22 → 31/05/24

  Project: Research

  • Approach 100%
  • Therapeutic Procedure 83%
  • Biomedicine 76%
  • Medical Sciences 76%
  • Expectations 76%

• SINAPSE Early Career Researcher Exchange Fund 2022

  York, B.

  1/11/22 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• New directions for OCD research

  Kirkham, E.

  1/11/22 → 30/06/23

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 100%
  • Compulsive Disorder 100%
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 100%
  • Focus Group 50%
  • Lived Experience 50%

• Exogenous sex steroid hormones and asthma phenotypes: a population-based prospective cohort study using UK-wide Primary Care Databases

  Shah, A., Sheikh, A., Critchley, H., Tsanas, T., Tibble, H. & Jackson, T.

  31/10/22 → 30/10/24

  Project: Research

  • Contraceptive Agent 100%
  • Sex Hormone 100%
  • Primary Health Care 100%
  • Heidelberg Retinal Tomography 100%
  • Asthma 100%

• Speech for Intelligent cognition change tracking and Detection of AD (SIDE-AD) Research Program

  Luz Filho, S. & Ritchie, C.

  1/10/22 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

• Honest discussions about alcohol use during pregnancy – an exploration of lay discussions on a British online parenting forum

  Scholin, L. & Arkell, R.

  1/10/22 → 1/10/23

  Project: Research

  • Alcohol Consumption 100%
  • Child Parent Relation 100%
  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome 100%
  • Peer Group 100%

• Social Science issues relating to Monkeypox

  Garcia Iglesias, J., Pickersgill, M., Chataway, J., Horwood, J., Nagington, M., May, T., Amlôt, R., Williams, J., Buijsen, S. & McHugh, C.

  1/10/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Public Health 100%
  • Social Media 50%
  • Qualitative Research 50%
  • Stakeholders 50%
  • Online Dating 50%

• The neural basis of semantic and social cognition in autism

  Mirman, D. & Thye, M.

  1/09/22 → 30/06/23

  Project: Research

  • Social Cognition 100%
  • Autism 100%

• CAHSS Knowledge Exchange and Impact Grant: Learning about Neurodiversity at School (LEANS): Amplifying the impact and reach of new resource for children and their teachers

  McGeown, S., Alcorn, A. & Fletcher-Watson, S.

  1/02/22 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Primary School Students 100%
  • Primary School Teachers 100%
  • Primary Schools 100%
  • Educational Programmes 100%

• Difficulty and pleasure in comprehending novel extensions of verb-based metaphors assessed using fNIRS

  Errington, P., Mirman, D. & Thye, M.

  5/01/22 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Reading Habit 100%
  • Linguistics 100%
  • Functional near Infrared Spectroscopy 100%
  • Anticipation 100%
  • Sensation 100%

• Neurodiversity and Narrative Fiction

  McGeown, S. & Crompton, C.

  1/01/22 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Neurodiversity 100%
  • Narrative Fiction 100%

• Biology, data science and the making of precision education

  Williamson, B., Pykett, J., Pickersgill, M. & Kotouza, D.

  6/09/21 → 5/09/23

  Project: Research

• Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Illuminate the activity of 11-hydroxsteroid dehydrogenase-1 inhibitors and their potential for repurposing to prevent the development of heart failure after Myocardial Infarction

  Khan, S.

  1/09/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Pilot study for phase 2 clinical trial and mechanistic study of Ketogenic Diet in Bipolar Disorder

  Campbell, H. & Smith, D.

  1/08/21 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

  • Ketogenic Diet 100%
  • Bipolar Disorder 100%
  • Clinical Trial 100%

• Mental health in Scottish prisons: A needs assessment

  Thomson, L., Gilling, L. & Rees, C.

  3/06/21 → 11/03/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Needs Assessment 100%
  • Mental Health 100%
  • Scottish Government 50%
  • Health Care Need 50%

• An in vitro model of cortical-spinal tract to determine motor circuit dysfunction in Motor Neuron Disease (MND)

  Thangaraj Selvaraj, B.

  UK-based charities

  1/05/21 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• Clinical Phenotyping Of Prolonged Cognitive Symptoms After COVID-19

  Carson, A., Breen, D., Mcwhirter, L. & Stone, J.

  UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities

  1/04/21 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• ISSF3: Wellcome Trust’s Institutional Strategic Support Fund

  Czopka, T.

  1/03/21 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • Nervous System 100%
  • In Vivo 100%
  • Oligodendrocyte 100%
  • Optogenetics 100%
  • Precursor 100%

• The risk of stroke and other vascular diseases after SARS-CoV2: a UK population-wide cohort

  Whiteley, W.

  1/03/21 → 1/03/22

  Project: Research

• Wellcome Trust, INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC SUPPORT FUND: Investigating mechanisms of brain and cognitive development in children born preterm

  Richardson, H., Bastin, M., Thrippleton, M., Fletcher-Watson, S. & Boardman, J.

  1/03/21 → 28/02/22

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Depression Detectives

  Beange, I., McIntosh, A., Iveson, M., Kwong, A., Adams, M., Whalley, H., Kirkham, E., Smith, D., MacSweeney, N., Barbu, M. C. & Huggins, C.

  20/02/21 → 8/09/21

  Project: Other (Non-Funded/Miscellaneous)

  • Lived Experience 100%
  • Facebook 60%
  • Data Science 60%
  • Citizen Science 60%
  • Biobank 60%

• Using synaptogenic proteins to repair the damaged synaptome

  Grant, S.

  1/02/21 → 31/01/22

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Synapse 100%
  • Synaptogenesis 40%
  • Neurodegeneration 20%
  • Pervasive Developmental Disorder 20%

• Macrophage-associated on-treatment biomarkers of neoadjuvant chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer patients

  Selli Karakaya, C.

  11/01/21 → 11/12/21

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Macrophage 100%

• The impact of Covid-19 on adolescent mental health, wellbeing and education

  Stewart, T., McCluskey, G., Fry, D. & McAra, L.

  5/01/21 → 1/08/21

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Youth 100%
  • Mental Health 100%
  • Adolescence 100%
  • Research Grants 25%
  • Evidence-Based 25%

• A matrix reference material for human Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF): the key for the optimisation and harmonisation of neurodegenerative disease clinical diagnostic tests based on protein aggregation assays.

  Piconi, G. & Green, A.

  4/01/21 → 9/07/21

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Striving to Transform Autism Research Together - Scotland (STARTS)

  Cage, E., Crompton, C. & Botha, M.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

  • Autism 100%

• Award from Edinburgh Neuroscience RS MacDonald Seedcorn Fund

  Stavrou, M. & Bolado Carrancio, A.

  2/11/20 → 1/05/21

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 100%
  • Neuroscience 100%

• Perivascular spaces: an early marker of vascular contributions to neurodegeneration

  Wardlaw, J., Ballerini, L., Chappell, F. & Valdes Hernandez, M.

  Other

  1/10/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

  • Perivascular Space 100%
  • Filtration 100%
  • Assessment 100%
  • Lesion 16%
  • Tenidap 16%

• INCPACT: Early experiences of integrating an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic decision support system into radiology settings: a qualitative study

  Faric, N., Hinder, S., Williams, R., Ramaesh, R., Bernabeu, M. O., van Beek, E. & Cresswell, K.

  1/10/20 → 29/09/23

  Project: Research

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  • Lung Nodule 100%
  • Diagnosis 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Decision Support System 100%
  • Computer Software 100%

• Accelerated drug discovery for MND using human stem cell based phenotypic screening

  Chandran, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/09/20 → 31/08/21

  Project: Research

• SWEA: ScotPEN Wellcome Engagement Award: Phase 2

  Pickersgill, M.

  15/07/20 → 14/01/22

  Project: Research

  • Training Offer 100%
  • Capacity Building 100%
  • Culture Change 100%
  • Brokerage 100%
  • Public Engagement 100%

• NRS Career Researcher Fellowship: Evaluating changes to insight in common cognitive disorders.

  Pennington, C.

  1/07/20 → 30/06/24

  Project: Research

• Active promotion of brain and spinal cord donation in Motor Neurone Disease in Scotland

  Smith, C. & Pal, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/04/20 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• AI For Good - AI Enabled Smart Prostheses

  Roche, A.

  11/03/20 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Prosthesis 100%
  • Artificial Intelligence 100%
  • Niacin 100%
  • Cognitive Load 100%
  • Bionics 20%

• Fleming Fund Fellowship Scheme: Malawi Professional Fellowships Cohort 1

  Fitzgerald, R., Muwonge, A., Dorai-Schneiders, T., Gally, D., Street, A., Reynolds, R., Paterson, G., Mazeri, S. & Corbishley, A.

  1/03/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Other

  • Amoxicillin Plus Clavulanic Acid 100%
  • Antimicrobial Resistance 100%
  • Low and Middle Income Countries 33%
  • Antibiotic Resistance 33%

• Long-Term Field Site Network for Health Service and Technology Innovation in Uganda (GCRF05)

  Wolters, M. & Denison, F.

  1/02/20 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Technology-Innovation 100%
  • Health Service 100%

• Creating a toolkit for autistic pupils in mainstream secondary school

  Crompton, C.

  1/01/20 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Secondary Schools 100%

• Defining Astrocyte heterogeneity and CD44 across neurodegenerative diseases

  Bradford, B., Mabbott, N. & Smith, C.

  1/01/20 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Interferon 100%
  • Mass Spectrometry 100%
  • Protein 100%
  • Cross-Link 100%
  • Human Leukocyte Antigen 100%

• The Neurodiversity Alliance: creating and evaluating a peer support program for neurodivergent pupils in mainstream secondary schools

  Crompton, C., Cebula, K. & Goodall, K.

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

  • Peer Group 100%

• Diabetes Trials Unit, University of Oxford: follow up of UKPDS

  Whiteley, W.

  1/01/20 → 1/06/20

  Project: Research

• I'm still learning: Collaborative learning in person and remotely in aging

  MacPherson, S. E. & Crompton, C.

  1/01/20 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

  • Collaborative Learning 100%

• PPLS Small Project Grant: Pre-symptomatic neuropsychological changes in people at risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND): A collaborative study.

  Abrahams, S.

  1/01/20 → 31/07/20

  Project: University Awarded Project Funding

• Developing telehealth in motor neurone disease

  Pal, S.

  UK-based charities

  1/11/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

• SAND: Secretion, Autophagy and their role in Neurodegeneration

  Thangaraj Selvaraj, B. & Chandran, S.

  EU government bodies

  1/11/19 → 31/10/23

  Project: Research