Through the Network Centre, there are opportunities for pump-priming funds, equipment grants and travel awards.

Our Peer Review process

All applications for funds are reviewed by the Organising Committee, with conflicts of interest appropriately managed.

There are 3 rounds of grant calls in each financial year. The deadline for applications to our grants are as followed:

  • 30 October
  • 30 January
  • 30 April

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Recently funded projects

In 2022, the East Network Centre awarded 1 Equipment Grant, 7 Pump Priming Grant and 16 Travel Grant.

Type of Award Project PI Collaborators Amount Awarded
Equipment Three functional near-infrared spectroscopy caps for whole-head Emilia Butters Gemma Bale, John O’Brien
Su Li, Hatice Gunes, Kate
Baker, Tristan Bekinschtein, Duncan Astle, Rebecca Lawson		 £4500
PPG Characterisation of microglial activation and synapse loss in progressive supranuclear palsy Annelies Quaegebeur James Rowe, Sanne Kaalund

 

 £4980
PPG Establishing blood test biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease David Whiteside Timothy Ritttman, Ed Needham, Michael Hornberger £5,000
PPG Sex, Menopause and spontaneous Alzheimer’s disease Matthew Pontifex Michael Muller £4,936
PPG Isolating and characterizing the translatome from human Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) brains Muhammad Ali Bangash £5,000
PPG Investigating the gut brain connections in early cognitive decline and dementia

 

 Emily Connell David Vauzour

 

 £4965
PPG Development of a platform for rapid translation of radiotracers for imaging mutant huntingtin’s protein aggregates in Huntington’s disease Selena Milicevic Sephton Catherine Dickmann, Franklin I. Aigbirhio, Roger Barker, Yanyan Zhao £5000
PPG Identifying novel regulators of BDNF-TrkB signalling in young and aged adults and Alzheimer’s patients by investigating the TrkB protein interactome Julia Zbiegly

 

 Julie Q Lin

 

 £5000

The Cambridge Network has also awarded 46 travel grants in the period 2018/2019. These are split approximately 50/50 between PHD students and Post-doc/ERCs.

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