Funding
Funding
A range of our projects are funded by major research funders both in the UK and internationally.
Select a funder from the list below to see which projects they have funded.
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)- Cell morphogenesis in Bacillus subtilis: from genetics to exploitation (£3,201,603)
Principal Investigator: Professor Jeff Errington - Regulation of elongation by RNA polymerase and ribosome via intrinsic signals and transcription-translation coupling (£692,381)
Principal Investigator: Professor Nikolay Zenkin - Role of transcriptional fidelity and processivity on the noise of transcription, and its consequences for phenotypic bistability in Streptococcus pneumoniae (£360,558)
Principal Investigator: Professor Nikolay Zenkin - Assembly of the bacterial DNA replication initiation complex (£14951)
Principal Investigator: Dr Heath Murray - B. subtilis cell wall synthesis (£501,033)
Principal Investigator: Professor Waldemar Vollmer - Regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis (£551,866)
Principal Investigator: Professor Waldemar Vollmer - Phosphotransferases in cell wall synthesis (£363,399)
Principal Investigator: Professor Waldemar Vollmer - A synthetic biology approach to enhanced lignocellulose degradation in the biobutanol organism Clostridium acetobutylicum (£671,288)
Principal Investigator: Professor David Bolam - The use of genome mining and protein engineering to generate novel xylan and cellulose degrading enzymes (£445,000)
Principal Investigator: Professor Harry Gilbert - Engineering enzymes, bacteria and bioconversion processes for advanced biofuels from waste grain straw (£405,000)
Principal Investigator: Professor Harry Gilbert
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)- Evolutionary Optimisation of Self Assembling Nano-Designs (£945,423)
Principal Investigator: Professor Natalio Krasnogor - Towards a Universal Biological-Cell Operating System (£1,026,408)
Principal Investigator: Professor Natalio Krasnogor - ROADBLOCK: Towards Programmable Defensive Bacterial Coatings & Skins (£791,388)
Principal Investigator: Professor Natalio Krasnogor - TAURUS: towards an audacious universal constructor (£252,781)
Principal Investigator: Professor Natalio Krasnogor - FLOWERS An Infrastructure for platform technology in synthetic biology (£819,605)
Principal Investigators: Professor Anil Wipat, Professor Colin Harwood, Professor Jeff Errington - SynbiCITE - an Imperial College led Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) in Synthetic Biology (£6,237,589)
- Principal Investigators: Professor Anil Wipat, Professor Colin Harwood, Professor Jeff Errington
- A New Frontier in Design: The Simulation of Open Engineered Biological Systems (£5,557,007)
Principal Investigator: Professor Anil Wipat - Early-Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases (£11.1m)
Principal Investigator: Professor Calum McNeil - The Multi-Corder (£3.4m)
Principal Investigator: Dr Neil Keegan - High Frequency Degenerate Mode Acoustic Sensors (DSAW) (£778,000)
Principal Investigator: Dr John Hedley
European Union (EU)
European Union (EU)- CADMAD: Paving the Way for Future Emerging DNA-based Technologies: Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing of DNA libraries (£3,229,552)
Principal Investigator: Professor Natalio Krasnogor - Kill*Spill: Integrated Biotechnological Solutions for Combating Marine Oil Spills (£260,000)
Principal Investigator: Professor Ian Head - Origins, proliferation and pathogenesis of L-form bacteria (OPAL) (£1,560,684)
Principal Investigator: Professor Jeff Errington - Identification and characterization of factors involved in chromosome organization and septuum positoning in bacteria (COSP) (£143,122)
Principal Investigator: Professor Jeff Errington - ICT-Enabled, Cellular Artificial Liver System Incorporating Personalized Patient Management and Support (d-LIVER) Large Scale Integrating Project (€10.96M)
Principal Investigator: Professor Calum McNeil - Marie-Curie Initial Training Network project on pectin biodegradation ‘WALLTRAC’ (£190000)
Principal Investigator: Professor Harry Gilbert - Exploiting complex glycan metabolism in the human microbiota ( £1,779,213)
- Principal Investigator: Professor Harry Gilbert
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Medical Research Council (MRC)Understanding the mechanisms of CFS/ME (£451,573)
Principal Investigator: Professor Anil Wipat
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)- OILSPORE: Spore-forming hydrocarbon degraders and thermophiles, dispersal from petroleum reservoirs, and a test of the palaeopasteurization hypothesis (£445,000)
Principal Investigator: Professor Ian Head - Resource recovery from wastewater with Bioelectrochemical Systems (£67,000)
Principal Investigator: Professor Ian Head
Shell Global Solutions
Shell Global SolutionsMETAMORPHE; Metagenomic analysis and microbially relevant processes in hydrocarbon environments (£145,000)
Principal Investigator: Professor Ian Head
Technology Strategy Board
Technology Strategy BoardFeasibility study on application of synthetic biology approaches to high yield production of Mycosporine-like amino acids for use as UV-protectants (£248,000)
Principal Investigators: Professor Anil Wipat, Professor Colin Harwood, Professor Jeff Errington
United States Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research
United States Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental ResearchEngineering CAM photosynthetic machinery into bioenergy crops for biofuels production in marginal environments ( $14.3m)
Principal Investigator: Professor Anne Borland
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust- Chromosome segregation and cytokinesis in bacteria: mechanism and regulation (£1,531,972)
Principal Investigator: Professor Jeff Errington - Understanding the contribution of the human microbiota to human health ( £1,487,774)
Principal Investigator: Professor Harry Gilbert